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JEWS MUST MAKE A SALE TO THE FIRST CUSTOMER THEY HAVE
OR THEY WILL HAVE A BAD DAY OR UNSUCCESSFUL BUSINESS.
| Subject headings: | 686 Properties attributed to specific numbers or numerals individually. Observation BELIEF -- Work Commerce Business |
Date learned: 09-07-1965
IF YOU FIND A PENNY IT IS GOOD LUCK AS LONG AS
YOU KEEP IT. IF YOU CONSISTENTLY FIND PENNIES
WITH A PARTICULAR PERSON, THAT PERSON IS ALSO GOOD
LUCK.
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Street Trip Relations between relatives, friends, host and guest Social class Rank BELIEF -- Good luck Money |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
THE ELMORE GHOST
NOT TOO LONG AGO IN ELMORE, OHIO, A GROUP OF DRUNK TEENAGERS
RAN INTO AND KILLED A POLICEMAN ON A MOTORCYCLE. THIS WAS
WITNESSED BY A PERSON LIVING IN A HOUSE NOT FAR AWAY. THE
PERSON DIED OF SHOCK. IF YOU GO THERE YOU CAN SEE CAR LIGHTS
COMING AT YOU, FEEL THE BUMP-BUMP OF A MOTORCYCLE ON YOUR CAR
HOOD AND SEE A LIGHT MOVE FROM WINDOW TO WINDOW OF THE NOW-
DESERTED HOUSE.
Date learned: 00-00-1968
NOT GIVEN
DON'T WRITE A LETTER ON TWO KINDS OF PAPER; IT MAY NOT REACH ITS
DESTINATION, OR THE ANSWER MAY BRING BAD NEWS.
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Street Trip Relations between relatives, friends, host and guest Social class Rank |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
ARMY NURSE
IN WORLD WAR I, REGISTERED NURSES WERE DRAFTED. WHEN THE ARMISTICE
WAS SIGNED, THEY STILL HAD TO FINISH THEIR TOURS OF DUTY. SOME
WERE SENT TO THE KENTUCKY HILLS, WHERE THE ONLY MEANS OF
TRANSPORTATION WAS A MULE. "MOST OF US WERE EIGHTEEN-YEAR-OLD CITY
GALS. PICTURE US PUSHING AND PULLING THOSE DUMB ANIMALS UP THE
HILLS."
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Human Being |
Date learned: 10-00-1968
IF EVER IN COLLEGE I CROSS YOUR PATH,
I'LL LOOK YOU UP TO DO MY MATH!
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Autograph Verse Wisecracks, gags, silly stories, insults |
Date learned: 10-27-1968
IN YOUR BREADBOX OF MEMORIES,
DON'T REGARD ME AS A CRUMB.
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Autograph Verse Wisecracks, gags, silly stories, insults |
Date learned: 10-27-1968
REMEMBER THE BEER,
REMEMBER THE ALE,
REMEMBER THE TIME WE SPENT IN JAIL.
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Autograph Verse Wisecracks, gags, silly stories, insults |
Date learned: 10-27-1968
SOME LOVE ONE AND SOME LOVE TWO,
I LOVE ONE AND THAT IS YOU.
(SIGNED) CLAIRIE STOCK
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Autograph Verse Tender sentiment |
Date learned: 00001800S
AS SHIPS GO SAILING OVER THE SEA
SO SHALL I SEND MY LOVE TO THEE.
(SIGNED) S. M.
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Autograph Verse Tender sentiment |
Date learned: 00001800S
REMEMBER GRANT, REMEMBER LEE,
TO HELL WITH THE OTHERS, REMEMBER ME!
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Autograph Verse Remember me |
Date learned: 10-27-1968
WHEN YOU SIT IDLE THINKING
AND YOUR DAY'S WORK IS DONE
AND THE GAS LIGHT KEEPS YOU WINKING
THINK OF ME JUST FOR FUN.
(SIGNED) A. MATHES, DETROIT, 7/19/1887
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; OHIO ; TOLEDO ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Autograph Verse Remember me |
WHEN YOU ARE SITTING ALL ALONE
REFLECTING ON THE PAST
REMEMBER THAT YOU HAVE A FRIEND
WHOSE FRIENDSHIP LONG WILL LAST
AND IF AFAR FROM HOME TO ROVE
SHOULD BE THY DREAR DECREE
THINK ON THE FRIENDS WHOM THOU DIDST LOVE
AND THEN REMEMBER ME.
(SIGNED) MARY WALLEN, WHEELING, W. VA.
ABSENT BUT NOT FORGOTTON
Where learned: OHIO ; TOLEDO ; WEST VIRGINIA ; WHEELING
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Autograph Verse Remember me |
Date learned: 00001880S
REMEMBER ME FAR AWAY
REMEMBER ME ON YOUR WEDDING DAY
REMEMBER ME FOR MERCY SAKE
AND SEND ME A PIECE OF WEDDING CAKE.
(SIGNED) LENA KOEHLER, (APP. 1885)
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Autograph Verse Remember me |
Date learned: 00001880S
WHEN DISTANT HILLS DIVIDE US
AND YOU NO MORE I SEE
REMEMBER IT WAS NETTIE WHO
WROTE THESE LINES FOR THEE
(SIGNED) NETTIE KOEHLER, 10/26/1884
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Autograph Verse Remember me |
Date learned: 00001880S
WHEN YOU ARE MARRIED AND LIVE ON A FARM,
SEND ME A PICKLE AS LONG AS YOUR ARM.
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Autograph Verse Matrimony |
Date learned: 09-30-1968
WHEN YOU ARE MARRIED
AND HAVE 1 - 2 - 3
NAME THE PRETTIEST AFTER ME!
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Autograph Verse Matrimony |
Date learned: 10-27-1968
CALIFORNIA GROWS PEACHES
FLORIDA DOES TOO,
BUT IT TAKES OHIO
TO GROW A PEACH LIKE YOU.
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Autograph Verse Humorous allusion to love |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
THE WORK THAT IS SWEETEST AND DEAREST
THE WORK THAT SO MANY NE(E)R DO
THE GREAT WORK OF MAKING FOLKS HAPPY
MAY BE DONE BY A LASSIE LIEKE YOU.
(SIGNED) T. A. MORROW
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Autograph Verse Humorous allusion to love |
Date learned: 00001880S
HEARTS, LIKE DOORS, OPEN WITH EASE
TO VERY, VERY LITTLE KEYS.
AND DON'T FORGET THAT THEY ARE THESE
I THANK YOU, SIR, AND IF YOU PLEASE.
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Autograph Verse Humorous allusion to love |
Date learned: 00001880S