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From: "Patti" <>
Subject: [OHGREENE-L] Late 1800s---Early Osborn con't
Date: Tue, 16 Feb 1999 07:33:47 +0100


It seems that there were plenty of cherries in Osborn in 1883, as the same
newspaper that carried the above advertisements also carried notices of 3
people falling out of trees while picking cherries. "Little" Dave
WOLFENSPERGER fell from a cherry tree at his home and it was "thought for a
time that he had fractured several ribs," but such was not the case and he
was able to attend to business as usual that evening.
"Big" Dave HEDGES was picking cherries one afternoon "from a ladder, and by
some unknown means the ladder 'kicked up its heels' and threw Dave off."
Luckily he wasn't hurt either.
Samuel HEEDWOHL "had a narrow escape from death" we are told. He was
picking cherries in the top of a tree when the limb broke and "he came
crashing toward the ground turning a complete double-back-action summer
sault, but succeeded in grasping a limb thus breaking the fall, and probably
saving his life."

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