"...thereupon, according to the complainant, Brant proceeded to beat his [the complainant's] face." The aforementioned Brant being Alonzo Mason Brant, my husband's great-granduncle; the year, 1910; the place, Nebraska. You never know what you're going to find when you start digging around in old newspapers!
How right you are. I found a connection to my grandmother and a Bigfoot hoax in Northern CA in an old newspaper. Always fun to read the old papers. Great Blog.
ReplyDeleteThanks! I do hope more newspapers come online in the future.
ReplyDeleteThis post is on my list of most interesting blog posts of 2013: http://ancestralworld.blogspot.nl/2013/12/interesting-blog-posts-of-2013.html
ReplyDeleteHappy new year from Utrecht, The Netherlands!
Thank you very much, Joan! Much appreciated! swm
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