Common stories permeate our culture as urban legends. A particular story, of animals who are enemies in nature befriending each other, was popular in the 17th and 18th centuries, and was retold in various forms for hundreds of years. Examples below. — Sometimes there really are no words. As I do research for other things, publications in a newspaper move me, and I had to create a publication just to keep them separate from the rest of my work.

The burgular told the neighbors outside that he was fleeing a “mad dog” after a simple housewife beat the ever living crap out of him for looting her residence. — Sometimes there really are no words. As I do research for other things, publications in a newspaper move me, and I had to create a publication just to keep them separate to the rest of my work.

I found evidence of the biggest guilt trip known to man. — A husband known to blackout with the drink and abuse his wife, attempted suicide for the sake of his wife’s happiness, or so sayeth the biggest guilt trip via suicide note that has ever been recorded in history. The cirucumstances that caused C.W. Beck to gas himself in a lodging…

In what became a scandalous headline story, an Arkansas woman’s entire twenty year marriage was invalidated by a judge due to her “concealed heritage.” — Sometimes there really are no words. As I do research for other things, publications in a newspaper move me, and I had to create a publication just to keep them separate to the rest of my work. By all appearances, Mrs. Ida Fort was a devoted wife, mother of three…

Sometimes there really are no words. As I do research for other things, publications in a newspaper move me, and I had to create a publication just to keep them separate to the rest of my work. Fairly weird and dark New Years greeting found in a 1931 newspaper.

When authorities started investigating the murder for an A.J. Eick in 1899, men and their familes started fleeing as if from guilt. One of those men, William Yoder, was indicted and convicted of murder. He and his wife spent 11 years trying to prove that Eick was still alive… — Guilty of Something, but not Murder William M. Yoder, also known as William Jacob Yoder, was born in Indiana around June, 1855. He married a woman named Nancy, and they had four sons: Everett Allen Yoder, John Max Yoder, James Marion Yoder and the youngest, Purtle Edward Yoder. William Yoder was known as a family man…

Natural plants to make natural dye in all shades — I am obsessed with the thought of making natural dye, and in ancient times, spinning your own cloth and dying it using natural materials was common-place. I do not have anything of my own to dye currently such as wool or cloth or some kind of linen, but I have…

Prepare for Spring — Learn to Recognize Morning Glory as it Sprouts. Some say the cochroach is nearly impossible to kill, but likely they have never spoken to a gardener. The true award of undying obviously goes to the Bindweed, or Morning Glory, which is a climbing vine that lives…