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In this series of stories, the author recounts a funny story from 1905 of a little boy who refused to wear a puffy shirt. In 1900 there was a troubled affair between Jesse James and E. Lewis. James wanted to marry Lewis’ daughter, and when he came to forcibly take the girl, there was a terrible shootout. In 1901, parents in Greenville advertised their new rules on dating their daughters. In 1895, Mrs. T. A. Nichols owned bread baked by her dead mother from 1869 and put away as a memory of her. From 1906, there is a list of salaries for Greenville town officials. There is an exciting story from 1910 of how G. V. Smith and another man were working repairing the Pillsboro bridge and a section they were on broke loose and took them seven miles down the river. There is an interesting observation made about the Chicod Creek. It makes a several mile circuitous route dumps into the Tar River above its source on the Tar River. In 1915, there was terrible hail storm in Greenville that left 8 inches of hail on downtown streets. And lastly a funny statement about a young man that had moved so much, his chickens lie down and cross their legs to be tied, and his old cat crawls into a meal bag ready to be moved again.
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