Karl Kae Knecht Cartoon

Description:	An old French tomahawk that can be used as a pipe, an old German bible from 1707, a block of wood found in house by builders children, an ear of red corn with white kernels on the bottom, a beech tree with an ingrown limb, and blastoids that arent petrified hickory nuts. Image Access WideTEK 25 This 100 year French made iron tomahawk was found 43 years ago by Chas Luff on his farm 6 miles south of Winslow, Pike County, Ind. Henry Huff, a son, now owns it. The bowl on top with opening to the hollow part in handle permitted its use as a pipe. It is now rust eaten 7 inches. An old German bible of 1707 owned by John L Schuetz, Newburgh, Ind. It belonged to his grandmother Maria Hepp title page printed in red & black. He also has an old German prayer book Band Buck printed in 179-(?), a bible story book of 1714 and another bible of 1833. This slab sawed from the side of a tree log off a beech tree - growing 16 feet from the ground, showed an ingrown limb. The tree grew on the WM Long Farm, near Bristow, Perry County, Ind. J.A. Mills sent in the sketch which was drawn by Kenneth Miles, Bristow Ind. Those petrified hickory nuts shown here last Monday are blastoids - pentremites, pyriformes - a fossilized form of animal growth that attached themselves to the ocean bottom 100,000,000 years ago - when in the Mississippian period - the ocean covered much of this continent. Paul Duffield - local geologist called our attention tot his with books and drawings of them. The above block of wood was found between the walls of a house being torn down. Placed there by the builder John Baker, whose daughter later married a son of John Fluhrer for whom the house was built. Mrs. Arch Autry. Red corn with an odd design in white kernels at the bottom. From the John Coomes Farm Uniontown KY. Sent in by Virgil Coomes Evansville. Whats yours?
Origin:	2013
Created By:	Karl Kae Knecht
Source:	http://digital.evpl.org/cdm/ref/collection/karlknecht/id/194
Collection:	Karl K. Knecht Collection
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Subjects:	Oddities Agriculture Evansville (Ind.) -- History -- Caricatures and cartoons United States -- Politics and government -- 20th century -- Caricatures and cartoons Caricatures and cartoons -- United States

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