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"Telling a story is like reaching into a granary full of wheat and drawing out a handful. There is always more to tell than can be told."
―Wendell Berry, Jayber Crow

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Did You Know?

• …that Leslie Combs was known as The Boy Captain of 1812?
• …that Reuben Saunders discovered that the hypodermic use of morphine-atropine halted cholera during the Paducah, Kentucky epidemic of 1873?

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On This Day

April 19: April 19th 1769 – James Taylor born. 1779 – William Brown born. 1791 – William Orlando Butler born. 1865 – Samuel F. Swope died, aged 56. 1872 – Ella Broadus Robertson born. 1898 – Nelly Nichol Marshall died, aged 52. 1919 – Bernie Crimmins born. 1944 – Anna Mac Clarke died, aged 24. 1976 – Scott Padgett born.