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About the book, The Burning Cow Question and Other Tales From The Waterford Town Council
1891-1909

Edited and annotated by John M. Souders

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The Burning Cow Question and Other Tales From The Waterford Town Council 1891-1909
The cover of the publication

This website has included a number of excerpts from The Burning Cow Question and Other Tales From The Waterford Town Council 1891-1909. This publication gives humorous and serious stories taken from the minutes of the Waterford Town Council from 1891-1909.
More on the Town Government in the 1800s »

From the back cover of the book:

Packed into these pages are answers to questions about Waterford,
Virginia, in the gay nineties that you are too polite to ask:

  • Just how much manure is too much?
  • What happened when the post-election jolliffication got out of hand?
  • How did the ladies soil their balbriggans?
  • at was the town sergeant doing with those chickens?
  • Was there something fishy about the milk?
  • Who was caught violating certain moral laws ?
  • What are the shocking facts about Dr. Connell's galvanic bath?
  • Was the livery stable really a den of sin ?
         . . . or was the death an accident?
  • And what about Mrs. Brown's ordeal?

Nothing is held back in this exclusive probe into the long-hidden
files of Waterford's old Town Council.

 

 

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- 05/09/2008