Ruth McEvoy Collection 19 - Genesee County

Miss Maria Shedd accuses Anthony Rowe of theft on April 9th. Married him. 4-10-1894
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Oddities (cont) Mrs. Maria Rowe looking for her husband who left for a selling job - Anthony Maurice.
Couple married on the platform in front of the grandstand at the Genesee
4-30-1894
County Fair.
Lizzie Christopher pleads in court not to jail her father or (the) family (will) have
9-26-1894
nothing to eat. She won.
The horse of Frank Pratt of Otis Street ran away, turned on the track ahead of a
train, ran 3½ miles ahead of the train, across three bridges. Found unhurt,
10-27-1894
cutter without a scratch.
Lamplighter Fiske has found 1,600 sparrow eggs in electric lights in 6 weeks -
2-17-1896
121 of them yesterday.
Lamplighter Fiske says he has now taken 1,800 sparrow eggs from the arc
5-27-1896
light globes.
Parrot Pasha dead in Batavia at 22 Ross Street, owned by Dr. & Mrs. E. E. Snow.
Buried in the back lawn. Dr. Snow in Africa got him as a bedraggled chick -
8-20-1896
could swear in Arabic - not in English.
Old letters stored in the Court House written applying for jobs were found and sent
8-21-1896
to people to embarrass them.
William Miller in jail over night for drunkenness - cold night - started a fire using
11-2-1897
his wooden bed - the fire got out of control - Miller badly burned. 12-3-1897
1. One neighbor accuses another of theft. 8-20-1898
2. Hair pulling contest - says mostly false anyway. 8-23-1898
3. Loser says she has no need for a switch - all hair her own.
Two men with guns hold up the saloon of Cornelius P. Warren, 25 Evans Street,
Jesse James style. One man asleep and missed the whole thing. One in to
pay (his) bar bill looks so unpromising they let him go. Wife comes in, takes
8-24-1898
one look and slams the door behind her.
Alderman Moynihan has a well dug 25' through solid rock, finds water, gas comes
11-21-1898
from the pump.
Two lawyers dispute location (of) power to carry village wires - standing in a hole
2-10-1899
while diggers stand at bay. 1-9-1903
New location of pole found.
House policeman took a cigar forcibly from a man smoking in gallery. The man
waited until closing and, as the policeman left the theater, shot him - in
1-10-1903
Wallace, ID.
One of Charles Trietley's horses got loose and walked upstairs in the barn - it
q11-10-1903
took three hours to get him down as 200-300 people watched.
Joke played by autoists - many tramped to gulley on Oak Street to see a specter
3-7-1904
said to haunt the place. Auto passed dragging a sheet on a stick.
Alexander Robertson escaped from the hospital in his underwear - fled to a
6-6-1905
convent - nuns upset. 2-22-1906
Robertson dead.
A local merchant had a place with a player piano next door which played the same
piece continually until he knew it by heart and often whistled it. Finally it became
the only tune he could whistle. One night he was seen sitting up in bed
2-23-1906
whistling the tune in his sleep. Past & Present. 2-8-1908
Merritt S. Dunlap of 115 Summit has a horse with long, curly hair, ears like a bear. 4-13-1908
Freak horse on view at Chapel stable on Russell Place. 4-16-1908
3,500 saw the freak horse on Saturday.
Young man recently left a rig at a livery stable where, during the day, a hen
crawled under it and made a nest. On the way home he reached under the
4-20-1908
seat for his coat, pulling out instead the hen by the neck. She had laid an egg. 10-16-1909
Two bare feet - perhaps human feet - found in the freight yard. 2-15-1909
Feet found to be those of a bear.
22 years ago a man bought a suit from John F. Ryan. Was $5 short and left a
2-16-1909
ring as deposit. Last week he returned with the money. Past & Present. 2-19-1910