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Word: pownal (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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TIME New York, N. Y. Gentlemen: Jim Fisk was a tin peddler from Pownal, Vt. Not he, but Daniel Drew, sold watered stock at the Bull's Head Tavern. Selling watered live stock by weight was an old trick when Mesopotamian cowboys used to trade, in the wine-rooms, at Ur of the Chaldees. It is much if you do not mix up Daniel Drew* with John Drew.† Jim Fisk&** with John Fiske.†† NEWELL MARTIN...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 4, 1925 | 5/4/1925 | See Source »

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