Word: lincoln
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hope was then only my great aunts, their mother and two brothers too young for military service, one brother was in the Confederate navy and four brothers in the army. Because of the presence of a Northern aunt and cousin then at Mt. Hope who held a pass from Lincoln the home was not burned...
...Abraham Lincoln's famous broad axe, with which the president earned his fame as a champion rail-splitter, was placed on exhibit today in Widener Library...
...which has a bit at least a foot long, and which weighs ten pounds or more, was sold by Lincoln to a cattle drover who visited his country store. When the customer asked about the axe. Lincoln replied, "I have never offered it for sale, but have no particular use for it anymore, and if anyone wanted it enough to give me one dollar and four bits for it they can have...
...most characteristic of Lincoln's notes shown was evidently attached to a batch of government figures. It reads: "If the Sec. of the Treasury can tell what this means, it is more than I can. A Lincoln...
...Lincoln was able to jest at his own failures is indicated in a humorous business card he had printed up following one of his political defeats. The card reads: "A Lincoln, Attorney and Councillor at Law, Springfield, Ill. To Whom It May Concern. My old customers and others are no doubt aware of the terrible time I have had in crossing the stream, and will be glad to know that I will be back on the same side from which I started, on or before the 4th of March next, when I will be ready to Swap Horses, Dispense...