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More Tales of the Odd and Unusual in Pitt County
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In this collection of local stories is a description of a local firm that promised a cure for the "liquor habit." According to the ad in 1894 for Greenville's Bedal Institute, an alcoholic could be cured in three weeks for only $60.00. W. W. Owens had an unusual turkey gobbler that would sit on chicken’s eggs. In 1894, a young man wrote a sweet note to his girlfriend and a terse note to his washer woman. He got the envelopes mixed up which led to mayhem. In 1907, grave robbers dug up the grave of Susan White near Grimesland, long supposed to be the sister of Blackbeard. At a church baptism, the minister returns to the church to find most of the communal wine missing and gives a sermon about “depraved people.” In 1901, a man came to Greenville in a new buggy. He tied his horse up and went on to his business. He later returned to find his horse tied up to a broken down buggy. No trace of the pranksters.
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