Hattie Mae Smith's dolls
Subtitle: tall tales from the heartland : are they true? you be the judge
By: Dale L. Schreiber.
Publisher: Ponto Historic Society
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Carlsbad, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
Subjects: Tall tales -- Illinois -- Chicago; Urban folklore -- Illinois -- Chicago; Chicago (Ill.) -- Social life and customs
Table of contents: title: The baseball story; title: The wash women with the scrub board at work; title: A mentor story : man with the polo ponies, just watching; title: Preacher man with his Baptist Bible; title: The fancy lady with the going to church clothes; title: The heavy man pushing the loaded hand cart; title: Funny man, delivering meat to the old storage locker; title: Fancy step, Longsleeve Chas, man at the carriage, a "Yonker"; title: Young girls flirting on Drexel Road; title: Dr. Anderson's looking into the teeth of Lady Lilly; title: Man with the hoe working in the garden, with the large felt hat; title: Hanna Drake Beacon's bad luck in the year of 1880 in the south-side of Chicago; title: Hattie Mae Smith's dolls "that's happiness"; title: Rite soon tateler; title: Cigar time, Mr. Will-burr Fanging at the read door at Main House.