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Now, I got an hell of an collection, of old U.S. Silver Dollars, from years and years ago!!!!!!!!! Today you do not see them in coin change. But way back, circulation of silver dollars went on. People, especially the men, did not want to stick even one silver dollar into their pants pocket!!!!!! Why???? They were heavy coins you see, the pants if the belt or suspenders, was not strong enough, the pants came down and made the wearer feel like his butt was going to show in a few minutes. Now I said I got a hell of a lot of them, have not counted them for years. I would say I got around130 or so of them, would be pretty true.
MELBETA
Years and years ago, I ran a real estate office in town. Had 72 trained sales people I did!!!!!! I trained them myself. Taught them, both males and females, how to list houses, how to get listings, how to sell a house, how to write advertising that would sell the house.... That is a few of my training topics. Jimmy Carter came in as President, nice guy, very honest person, but real estate laws around then, began to change. I decided to leave the real estate business. I told each one, find a place you want to move to. Some opened their own real estate offices, based on what I did in my two offices...
Now year by year, month by month, day by day, I dug old bottle dumps. I got so many, I built a super large garage, and in it, I display my bottles. Also my coins, my tokens, my relics, etc., etc..... Here is a bottle booklet I wrote years ago, I touched it up a bit, corrected word mispellings you see...
Today trash is picked up by trucks called Trash Hauling Companies trucks. In the past, lets say around 1900 time period, into the 1920s time period, they found gullys out in the country, near the rolling foot hills. On the side of the road, they began to dump the trash, into the gullys and the valleys. Horse drawn graders leveled the areas out, and there it was. laying from the road, down the hill sides, into the bottom of the gullies.
By the 1930s, the trash areas were well established. In the country, NW of the little town of Melbeta, out on the eastern side of the hills, was a trash dump. I was not on the earth back then of course, but that trash dump area shows up on an old vintage map of that area.
Lets go out to that trash dump shall we? Not really today, but with our imagination we will travel to that area later on. But first, lets collect the trash, on our old farm, in the Melbeta area. We had two old vintage horse water tanks, long ago they used to hold water, and the horses drank from the old worn out water tanks. They are round, around 8 to 10 feet across the rims, from rim to rim. After over the years, we filled up both tanks, dad drove the old 1937 International farm truck, beside the two old horse water tanks, used a tine bushel fork, and shovel the trash, from the two old horse tanks, into that old 1.5 ton farm truck. It had side boards, and they were up at the moment, holding the old trash from the two old horse tanks.
So off we went, driving that old farm truck to that old trash dump, west of Melbeta, just south of granpa’s farm, for a few miles south, then an old dirt road was there, on the west side of the road, so an left turn, and we were going west to the old trash dump area. We arrived, he shoveled it out of the old farm truck bed, into that dump slope, and down the hill it rolled, stopping at the larger old trash fill area. Now that is the way it worked, back in the “good old days”! There was no trash service out in the farm areas. Now we did it north of the Nebraska town we farmed near, I am telling the story, just changing it a bit, but it is a true story you see, just not near Melbeta NE, another town further north... (the material I am posting, came from one of my 14 page old booklets I used to write)
If your old farm had its own gully or gullies, you could dump it on your own farm area, into one or more of the old gully or gullies. And that is what you will find on some old farms you see. I found them too, and one was on an uncle's farm!!! Pay atttention to me, I am teaching you history!!!!!!
In 1937, we moved north of Scottsbluff NE, renting a farm 1.5 of a mile north of the old Fairview Cemetery. We had two empty horse water tanks. We dumped our trash into those two old tanks. Now one tank, we stomped on the tin cans, and into that tank they went. The other tank, we tossed other miscellaneous trash into it.
Lets now talk about other farm areas, in other states. In the Ozarks of Southwest Missouri, again before the days of land fills and trash pick ups from the farms and from the cities, nearly every home had a family dump. My favorite way to find those old dumps, as I knew about them first hand, was to find an old dirt road, near the hills, where they had gully areas, and drive out looking for broken glass pieces. Then I parked, got out, began walking and looking. Now I was not in the Ozarks, but in western Nebraska, and out in the boon docks up in mountain areas of Colorado, and I even worked the old town dump between Cripple Creek and Victor, found it south on an old dirt road. I found lots of vintage old bottles, until an trash guy told me it was against the law to dig in that old dump. So I left that particular trash fill area. But I kept the bottles. Did I sell them? Nahhhh!!!!!! Still got them!
Now a writer named Bill Schember, wrote about his experiences in the same kind of old trash dumps. So I will use his words, and then write my own words, describing what Bill did in the past...
Now Bill was on a similiar trip, stopped at a little old country store, along the side of the road one day, He asked the old guy in the store, “Know of any old abandoned houses out in this area”? The old guy told him “Just down that road, in about one mile, on the left side of the road, turn left, at that old white house, it has an old abandoned house, from around the turn of the century, until about the 1930s time I guess, and there was an old mine around that area, people used to dig up lead in that area!”. So off Bill went, found that the white house guy owned that old abandoned house, got permission, metal detected that old abandoned house, found old relics and old coins, and grinned like crazy.
Now I am going to tell you about my own digging of old abandoned bottle dump areas. I dug everywhere. Some were in the mountain areas, with no visible owner houses anywhere. It was what I called “the boon docks”! If there was an owners house nearby, I asked, got permission, and dug and never left any holes to tick the owner off you see! If you treat it like you owned that land area, and closed all holes, you will be invited back again you see! Now that one tool, on the top right side of the below photo, has ONE LARGE NUT hole! It was used to remove the wheel bearing cover, on the two front wheels, of the old Ford cars. How do I know it? I used to use another tool, to remove the cover, remove that Large Nut, then pull the entire wheel, including rubber tire, rim, and then pulled out, the “outer wheel bearing”, then as the entire wheel came off, inside the wheel hub, was the “inner wheel bearing” itself. Dad taught me to fill EACH wheel bearing with heavy bearing grease. Then to put the entire wheel, bearings in the inner area, bearings in the outer area. then the wheel nut went on, turned it tight, and stuck back the outside cover, and I used to do that on ALL of my old vintage cars...So I know what those old tools are for now you see... Old vintage cars??????? That is another story of my past guys!!!
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The above, are not only vintage tools, they are very rare tools. Some are from the years of 1903 to 1905, and look strange and kind of not like a tool you see... Some used to have the manufacturer’s name on them, like “Ford, Nash, etc, etc...”. When they sold the cars back then, they came with tools to repair them...
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Now the picture above, is a box of old time rare tools, from the years of 1903 and into the early part of the 1930s. The old Ford Model “T’s” used these kinds of tools, and I got actual car toolboxes, full of this tool and that tool... Remember I do not tell lies!!!
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The above gas cans, are a few of the vintage gas cans I found in the past. The gas can on the right side, is slightly crushed, is from the era of 1903 into 1908 time period, found it in a vanished ghost town, just west of Hoosier Pass in Colorado. The other two, on the upper left side, are useable today, from the Ford Model “T” time periods. The smaller one below, is an oil can. I use to fill some of my tools which need oil to run...
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The above photo of an opened Ford Model “T” car tool box, has several brand new (old stock) Genuine Hickory wood handles, for hammers, etc. Never used. Brand new still in that new condition. Very very rare tools. Inside the tool box, which you can see some of the old rare tools inside it, are all rare tools, just as found in an old garage building in a ghost town. Now this photo above, is to just show you the new Hickory tool handles...
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The above photo, shows some of the old tools, in that Model “T” tool box, with some of the tools I removed from the box. See the old chisel? The old Monkey Wrenches? And in the upper part, you can see some of the old rare tools inside that old Model “T” tool box! Now the larger NUT tool, it is for wheel covers, with LARGER nuts you see...I used to build hot rods, used old vintage bodies, stuck in newer V8 engines. Started with the older Vintage 6 cyclinder engines from before the V8 engines came out though...Souped them all up. Raced on old roads and old highways back then.
[IMG]file:///C:/Users/JOHNDO~1/AppData/Local/Temp/msoclip1/01/clip_image012.jpg[/IMG]
The above photo, was an carrier box, stuck inside the main Model “T” tool box, is full of old Files, with old time file handles, punches, and open end tools. Just as found that day!
We used to save the old Car valves and their valve stems. Ground the valve stem ends, into metal chisels, then used aceteylene torches, to harden them, plunging them first into oil, then into cold water. The shop teacher in car shop classes, taught us that trick!
[IMG]file:///C:/Users/JOHNDO~1/AppData/Local/Temp/msoclip1/01/clip_image014.jpg[/IMG]
Here is that same Model “T” car tool box, with a view inside it, showing how it was found intact.
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This is a photo of additional rare tools. Now the UPPER tool, is an old rare OLD TIME socket wrench, to remove the LUG NUTS off of old cars. One can swivel the socket, for various sizes LUG NUTS. There are some old time Money Wrench, and what I call an old rare HAMMER, with its old oak handle. Now that one curved Cresent wrench, was so one could “get into tight places, and get at a hard to get at threaded nut! Very interesting. I gave that top lug nut tool, to one of my kids to use as he was kind of like me, worked on car engines and car bodies. He is mechanical minded like myself!
[IMG]file:///C:/Users/JOHNDO~1/AppData/Local/Temp/msoclip1/01/clip_image018.jpg[/IMG]
The above photo, the two wood BRACE DRILLS are not only very old, with wood parts of the handles, but are in perfect useable condition. The LONG tool, is an old BLACKSMITH fire poker tool, found up in the Cripple Creek mining district. The last tool, is an old Fence stretcher tool. A bit rusty, but useable by myself!
[IMG]file:///C:/Users/JOHNDO~1/AppData/Local/Temp/msoclip1/01/clip_image020.jpg[/IMG]
The above photo, is an old photo of an 1920s Ford Model “T” car, from the year of 1947, according to the license plate you see, now having been a Printer’s Devil, for the Bradford Robinson Printing and Publishing Co, I enhanced it for EXTREME CLARITY, so you can see the tools and other relics, on the old automobile time periods auto work bench far beyond this vehicle. Neat photo is it not??? It is not every day that one can see an old vintage car garage with the old vintage car still sitting in that old garage. Notice the old “Highway 66” road sign on the left side of that old shop bench. I drove on that old Highway 66 back in 1961 you see. I saw those signs all along Highway 66.
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Above, is enhanced photo, of one of the shelves in my largest garage, of various vintage bootles I dug up and cleaned, over the years. I just stuck them there, on the shelves, with no thought other then that storage area. Not designed for display, designed for storage! Now on that second shelf from the top, that vintage green bottle, sitting between the mining crucible on the left side, and that old time cafe coffee cup on the right side, is a very old bottle, I found it outside Manitou Springs one day. Very very rare bottle you see.
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Above, is a photo of an screen top, that I made to sit on top of a 5 gallon bucket. It contains small holes in the screen, so it collects, and saves small finer targets. And the wood is good for using it in the water. It also has legs, and can be used just sitting on the ground as well... I took this photo, right after I built this bottle screen unit.....
[IMG]file:///C:/Users/JOHNDO~1/AppData/Local/Temp/msoclip1/01/clip_image026.jpg[/IMG]
Above, is an extremely rare, metal case for 3 early Condums, for SAFE SEX!!!
It was found in the small town of Anaconda, up in the Cripple Creek Mining District, and since the town burned down in 1904, it has to be older then 1904! So it contained not rubber Sex items, but THIN LEATHER Condums!!! You wash them out, used them again and again and again... Oh, I found the town lead HEADLINE engraving that same day, for the Anaconda town newspaper. An old engraver person, was so thrilled seeing it, he made me the wooden piece, that held the old 1904 town Headline engraving...I am going to stop here with this particular booklet, have to keep them small in size, or I cannot stick them into websites for easy reading! I want you to notice the words, “Selected-Tested”. Man oh man would I like to have been one of the guys testing each “Merry Widow” at that company!!! “Ha ha ha!!!”. Nice joke, but I am kind of serious. It would have been a hellofa good job testing each Merry Widow for that company....
MELBETA
Now I do not know, if the photos will show up here in this forum, but I put enhanced photos in the past, into all of my booklets!!!!!!! So if the photos are not there, there will be an empty space where the photos were located...
MELBETA
MELBETA
Years and years ago, I ran a real estate office in town. Had 72 trained sales people I did!!!!!! I trained them myself. Taught them, both males and females, how to list houses, how to get listings, how to sell a house, how to write advertising that would sell the house.... That is a few of my training topics. Jimmy Carter came in as President, nice guy, very honest person, but real estate laws around then, began to change. I decided to leave the real estate business. I told each one, find a place you want to move to. Some opened their own real estate offices, based on what I did in my two offices...
Now year by year, month by month, day by day, I dug old bottle dumps. I got so many, I built a super large garage, and in it, I display my bottles. Also my coins, my tokens, my relics, etc., etc..... Here is a bottle booklet I wrote years ago, I touched it up a bit, corrected word mispellings you see...
OLD BOTTLE DUMPS
FROM
THE GOOD OLD DAYS
FROM
THE GOOD OLD DAYS
COPYRIGHT BY
MELBETA
Printed By
The Albany Printing Co
Los Angeles, CA
MELBETA
Printed By
The Albany Printing Co
Los Angeles, CA
Today trash is picked up by trucks called Trash Hauling Companies trucks. In the past, lets say around 1900 time period, into the 1920s time period, they found gullys out in the country, near the rolling foot hills. On the side of the road, they began to dump the trash, into the gullys and the valleys. Horse drawn graders leveled the areas out, and there it was. laying from the road, down the hill sides, into the bottom of the gullies.
By the 1930s, the trash areas were well established. In the country, NW of the little town of Melbeta, out on the eastern side of the hills, was a trash dump. I was not on the earth back then of course, but that trash dump area shows up on an old vintage map of that area.
Lets go out to that trash dump shall we? Not really today, but with our imagination we will travel to that area later on. But first, lets collect the trash, on our old farm, in the Melbeta area. We had two old vintage horse water tanks, long ago they used to hold water, and the horses drank from the old worn out water tanks. They are round, around 8 to 10 feet across the rims, from rim to rim. After over the years, we filled up both tanks, dad drove the old 1937 International farm truck, beside the two old horse water tanks, used a tine bushel fork, and shovel the trash, from the two old horse tanks, into that old 1.5 ton farm truck. It had side boards, and they were up at the moment, holding the old trash from the two old horse tanks.
So off we went, driving that old farm truck to that old trash dump, west of Melbeta, just south of granpa’s farm, for a few miles south, then an old dirt road was there, on the west side of the road, so an left turn, and we were going west to the old trash dump area. We arrived, he shoveled it out of the old farm truck bed, into that dump slope, and down the hill it rolled, stopping at the larger old trash fill area. Now that is the way it worked, back in the “good old days”! There was no trash service out in the farm areas. Now we did it north of the Nebraska town we farmed near, I am telling the story, just changing it a bit, but it is a true story you see, just not near Melbeta NE, another town further north... (the material I am posting, came from one of my 14 page old booklets I used to write)
If your old farm had its own gully or gullies, you could dump it on your own farm area, into one or more of the old gully or gullies. And that is what you will find on some old farms you see. I found them too, and one was on an uncle's farm!!! Pay atttention to me, I am teaching you history!!!!!!
In 1937, we moved north of Scottsbluff NE, renting a farm 1.5 of a mile north of the old Fairview Cemetery. We had two empty horse water tanks. We dumped our trash into those two old tanks. Now one tank, we stomped on the tin cans, and into that tank they went. The other tank, we tossed other miscellaneous trash into it.
Lets now talk about other farm areas, in other states. In the Ozarks of Southwest Missouri, again before the days of land fills and trash pick ups from the farms and from the cities, nearly every home had a family dump. My favorite way to find those old dumps, as I knew about them first hand, was to find an old dirt road, near the hills, where they had gully areas, and drive out looking for broken glass pieces. Then I parked, got out, began walking and looking. Now I was not in the Ozarks, but in western Nebraska, and out in the boon docks up in mountain areas of Colorado, and I even worked the old town dump between Cripple Creek and Victor, found it south on an old dirt road. I found lots of vintage old bottles, until an trash guy told me it was against the law to dig in that old dump. So I left that particular trash fill area. But I kept the bottles. Did I sell them? Nahhhh!!!!!! Still got them!
Now a writer named Bill Schember, wrote about his experiences in the same kind of old trash dumps. So I will use his words, and then write my own words, describing what Bill did in the past...
Now Bill was on a similiar trip, stopped at a little old country store, along the side of the road one day, He asked the old guy in the store, “Know of any old abandoned houses out in this area”? The old guy told him “Just down that road, in about one mile, on the left side of the road, turn left, at that old white house, it has an old abandoned house, from around the turn of the century, until about the 1930s time I guess, and there was an old mine around that area, people used to dig up lead in that area!”. So off Bill went, found that the white house guy owned that old abandoned house, got permission, metal detected that old abandoned house, found old relics and old coins, and grinned like crazy.
Now I am going to tell you about my own digging of old abandoned bottle dump areas. I dug everywhere. Some were in the mountain areas, with no visible owner houses anywhere. It was what I called “the boon docks”! If there was an owners house nearby, I asked, got permission, and dug and never left any holes to tick the owner off you see! If you treat it like you owned that land area, and closed all holes, you will be invited back again you see! Now that one tool, on the top right side of the below photo, has ONE LARGE NUT hole! It was used to remove the wheel bearing cover, on the two front wheels, of the old Ford cars. How do I know it? I used to use another tool, to remove the cover, remove that Large Nut, then pull the entire wheel, including rubber tire, rim, and then pulled out, the “outer wheel bearing”, then as the entire wheel came off, inside the wheel hub, was the “inner wheel bearing” itself. Dad taught me to fill EACH wheel bearing with heavy bearing grease. Then to put the entire wheel, bearings in the inner area, bearings in the outer area. then the wheel nut went on, turned it tight, and stuck back the outside cover, and I used to do that on ALL of my old vintage cars...So I know what those old tools are for now you see... Old vintage cars??????? That is another story of my past guys!!!
[IMG]file:///C:/Users/JOHNDO~1/AppData/Local/Temp/msoclip1/01/clip_image002.jpg[/IMG]
The above, are not only vintage tools, they are very rare tools. Some are from the years of 1903 to 1905, and look strange and kind of not like a tool you see... Some used to have the manufacturer’s name on them, like “Ford, Nash, etc, etc...”. When they sold the cars back then, they came with tools to repair them...
[IMG]file:///C:/Users/JOHNDO~1/AppData/Local/Temp/msoclip1/01/clip_image004.jpg[/IMG]
Now the picture above, is a box of old time rare tools, from the years of 1903 and into the early part of the 1930s. The old Ford Model “T’s” used these kinds of tools, and I got actual car toolboxes, full of this tool and that tool... Remember I do not tell lies!!!
[IMG]file:///C:/Users/JOHNDO~1/AppData/Local/Temp/msoclip1/01/clip_image006.jpg[/IMG]
The above gas cans, are a few of the vintage gas cans I found in the past. The gas can on the right side, is slightly crushed, is from the era of 1903 into 1908 time period, found it in a vanished ghost town, just west of Hoosier Pass in Colorado. The other two, on the upper left side, are useable today, from the Ford Model “T” time periods. The smaller one below, is an oil can. I use to fill some of my tools which need oil to run...
[IMG]file:///C:/Users/JOHNDO~1/AppData/Local/Temp/msoclip1/01/clip_image008.jpg[/IMG]
The above photo of an opened Ford Model “T” car tool box, has several brand new (old stock) Genuine Hickory wood handles, for hammers, etc. Never used. Brand new still in that new condition. Very very rare tools. Inside the tool box, which you can see some of the old rare tools inside it, are all rare tools, just as found in an old garage building in a ghost town. Now this photo above, is to just show you the new Hickory tool handles...
[IMG]file:///C:/Users/JOHNDO~1/AppData/Local/Temp/msoclip1/01/clip_image010.jpg[/IMG]
The above photo, shows some of the old tools, in that Model “T” tool box, with some of the tools I removed from the box. See the old chisel? The old Monkey Wrenches? And in the upper part, you can see some of the old rare tools inside that old Model “T” tool box! Now the larger NUT tool, it is for wheel covers, with LARGER nuts you see...I used to build hot rods, used old vintage bodies, stuck in newer V8 engines. Started with the older Vintage 6 cyclinder engines from before the V8 engines came out though...Souped them all up. Raced on old roads and old highways back then.
[IMG]file:///C:/Users/JOHNDO~1/AppData/Local/Temp/msoclip1/01/clip_image012.jpg[/IMG]
The above photo, was an carrier box, stuck inside the main Model “T” tool box, is full of old Files, with old time file handles, punches, and open end tools. Just as found that day!
We used to save the old Car valves and their valve stems. Ground the valve stem ends, into metal chisels, then used aceteylene torches, to harden them, plunging them first into oil, then into cold water. The shop teacher in car shop classes, taught us that trick!
[IMG]file:///C:/Users/JOHNDO~1/AppData/Local/Temp/msoclip1/01/clip_image014.jpg[/IMG]
Here is that same Model “T” car tool box, with a view inside it, showing how it was found intact.
[IMG]file:///C:/Users/JOHNDO~1/AppData/Local/Temp/msoclip1/01/clip_image016.jpg[/IMG]
This is a photo of additional rare tools. Now the UPPER tool, is an old rare OLD TIME socket wrench, to remove the LUG NUTS off of old cars. One can swivel the socket, for various sizes LUG NUTS. There are some old time Money Wrench, and what I call an old rare HAMMER, with its old oak handle. Now that one curved Cresent wrench, was so one could “get into tight places, and get at a hard to get at threaded nut! Very interesting. I gave that top lug nut tool, to one of my kids to use as he was kind of like me, worked on car engines and car bodies. He is mechanical minded like myself!
[IMG]file:///C:/Users/JOHNDO~1/AppData/Local/Temp/msoclip1/01/clip_image018.jpg[/IMG]
The above photo, the two wood BRACE DRILLS are not only very old, with wood parts of the handles, but are in perfect useable condition. The LONG tool, is an old BLACKSMITH fire poker tool, found up in the Cripple Creek mining district. The last tool, is an old Fence stretcher tool. A bit rusty, but useable by myself!
[IMG]file:///C:/Users/JOHNDO~1/AppData/Local/Temp/msoclip1/01/clip_image020.jpg[/IMG]
The above photo, is an old photo of an 1920s Ford Model “T” car, from the year of 1947, according to the license plate you see, now having been a Printer’s Devil, for the Bradford Robinson Printing and Publishing Co, I enhanced it for EXTREME CLARITY, so you can see the tools and other relics, on the old automobile time periods auto work bench far beyond this vehicle. Neat photo is it not??? It is not every day that one can see an old vintage car garage with the old vintage car still sitting in that old garage. Notice the old “Highway 66” road sign on the left side of that old shop bench. I drove on that old Highway 66 back in 1961 you see. I saw those signs all along Highway 66.
[IMG]file:///C:/Users/JOHNDO~1/AppData/Local/Temp/msoclip1/01/clip_image022.jpg[/IMG]
Above, is enhanced photo, of one of the shelves in my largest garage, of various vintage bootles I dug up and cleaned, over the years. I just stuck them there, on the shelves, with no thought other then that storage area. Not designed for display, designed for storage! Now on that second shelf from the top, that vintage green bottle, sitting between the mining crucible on the left side, and that old time cafe coffee cup on the right side, is a very old bottle, I found it outside Manitou Springs one day. Very very rare bottle you see.
[IMG]file:///C:/Users/JOHNDO~1/AppData/Local/Temp/msoclip1/01/clip_image024.jpg[/IMG]
Above, is a photo of an screen top, that I made to sit on top of a 5 gallon bucket. It contains small holes in the screen, so it collects, and saves small finer targets. And the wood is good for using it in the water. It also has legs, and can be used just sitting on the ground as well... I took this photo, right after I built this bottle screen unit.....
[IMG]file:///C:/Users/JOHNDO~1/AppData/Local/Temp/msoclip1/01/clip_image026.jpg[/IMG]
Above, is an extremely rare, metal case for 3 early Condums, for SAFE SEX!!!
It was found in the small town of Anaconda, up in the Cripple Creek Mining District, and since the town burned down in 1904, it has to be older then 1904! So it contained not rubber Sex items, but THIN LEATHER Condums!!! You wash them out, used them again and again and again... Oh, I found the town lead HEADLINE engraving that same day, for the Anaconda town newspaper. An old engraver person, was so thrilled seeing it, he made me the wooden piece, that held the old 1904 town Headline engraving...I am going to stop here with this particular booklet, have to keep them small in size, or I cannot stick them into websites for easy reading! I want you to notice the words, “Selected-Tested”. Man oh man would I like to have been one of the guys testing each “Merry Widow” at that company!!! “Ha ha ha!!!”. Nice joke, but I am kind of serious. It would have been a hellofa good job testing each Merry Widow for that company....
MELBETA
Now I do not know, if the photos will show up here in this forum, but I put enhanced photos in the past, into all of my booklets!!!!!!! So if the photos are not there, there will be an empty space where the photos were located...
MELBETA
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