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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 29., The old powder house. (search)
The Daily Dispatch: January 16, 1863., [Electronic resource], The enemy in Greenbrier county . (search)
Servant wanted.
--I wish to hire for the present year a good Servant, without encumbrance, to Wash and Iron.
Apply at my residence, Franklin street, two doors below 2d. E B Somerville ja 15--2t*
One hundred dollars reward
--For Charley, the property of K E Somerville, John, the property of C H Barksdale who left their homes, in this city, Wednesday, the 18th inst, when Gen Head's division passed through, and have not returned, and may still be with the army or may have gone on to attempt an escape by the Rappahannock.
Fifty dollars each will be paid for their apprehension and delivery to their masters, in this city, if taken any distance from Richmond, and $15 each if taken about the city.
Charley is about 17 or 18 years old, is a good looking house-servant not robust, rather spare, good teeth brown color.
He took with him a frock coat that use him full, and a pair of fine black cashmere pants.
He had also parts and roundabout of crown domestic and a military cap.
John is about 8 years old very black stout with ground 6 feet nine inches high, and had on when he left a military roundabout jacket, with brass buttons gray pants.
Yankee military over cap heavy
One hundred dollars reward
--For Charley, the property of R B Somerville, and John, the property of C H Barksdale, who left their homes, in this city, Wednesday, the 18th last, when Gen Hood's division passed through, and have not returned, and may still be with the army, or may have gone on to attempt an escape by the Rappahannock.
Fifty dollars each will be paid for their apprehension and delivery to their masters, in this city, if taken any distance from Richmond, and $25 each it taken about the city.
Charley is about 17 or 18 years old, is a good looking house-servant not robust, rather spare, good teeth brown color.
He took with him a frock coat, that fit him full, and a pair of fine black cassimere . He had also parts and round about of brown domestic and a military cap.
John is about 18 years old, very black, stout, well grown, 5 feet nine inches high, and had on when he left a military roundabout jacket, with brass buttons, gray pants Yankee military overcoat
The Daily Dispatch: November 23, 1863., [Electronic resource], Fair hair and dark hair. (search)
Fair hair and dark hair.
--A writer in the Anthropological Review argues that fair haired women are getting rarer in England than they were formerly, and that the change is the result of "conjugal selection, the man having a decided preference for dark hair.
Mrs. Somerville remarked upon this fact some years ago, in her valuable work on physical geography.
She was of opinion that fair hair was then much less common among her country men and country women than she remembered in her youth.
Dr. John Beddoe took the pains to collect some statistics on this subject.
He gives particulars respecting the color of the hair and the social condition of 737 women who have come under his observation, in his capacity of physician to the Bristol Royal infirmary.
Of these 737 women the hair of 22 was "red," that of 95 was "fair." that of 340 was brown, that of 336 was "dark brown," and that of 33 was "black. "Reckoning all the "red," the "fair," and the "brown, " as "fair," and only th