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When we finally got electricity
Last week we were talking about how it was before Reddy Kilowatt came into our lives. But he did come, eventually, even to our neck of the woods. Some wheels at Alabama Power apparently set up this huge dart board shaped like the state of Alabama and said they’d throw... -
Sassafras Bushes aren’t all bad
Sassafras Bushes aren’t all bad By Bob Sanders Somebody brought up the subject of pole beans the other day, and we got to talking about the various methods of installing stakes or sticks or strings or whatever for the bean vines to climb upon. And that, naturally,... -
Are today’s cars 30 times better?
Along about 1940 or 1941, a brand new family-size Chevrolet, Ford or Plymouth could be bought for about $700 or less. Mrs. McNeese’s brand new Ford cost her $641. Are today’s cars thirty times better than those cars? No. Not even close. But they are better. Check out... -
Merry Christmas to all
I stood around and let Christmas catch up with me again. Goodness, I could dig out an old Christmas column and it would serve just as well, but what the heck, I enjoy just remembering. I lived in the old house, the one I was born in, ‘til I was nine. We got...