{"id":2945,"date":"2014-12-20T18:37:20","date_gmt":"2014-12-21T00:37:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/?p=2945"},"modified":"2014-12-20T18:37:20","modified_gmt":"2014-12-21T00:37:20","slug":"mr-l-h-cox-turkey-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/mr-l-h-cox-turkey-shooting\/","title":{"rendered":"Mr. L.H. Cox Turkey Shooting (1882)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Mr. L.H. COX<\/strong> the sewing machine man killed at one shot 3 wild turkeys yesterday; one of them a gobler, the largest ever seen in this State, the beard measuring 14 inches long, and spurs on th leg 4 1\/2 in. long. \u00a0It weighed after being dressed 29 1\/2 lbs. \u00a0<strong>Mr. C<\/strong>. is one of the go ahead men too. \u00a0During 5 days of last week he sold 8 sewing machines, one wagon, one cow and calf, hauled 269 loads of manure, broke 4 acres of land and bought 4 cows and calves and wound up by finding a hen&#8217;s nest with 41 eggs in it. \u00a0All this was done in 5 days including the turkey shooting, all in one week. \u00a0Who can beat this for a sewing machine agent.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><em>Source:\u00a0New Berne Weekly Journal , 30 March 1882, page 3.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mr. L.H. COX the sewing machine man killed at one shot 3 wild turkeys yesterday; one of them a gobler, the largest ever seen in this State, the beard measuring 14 inches long, and spurs on th leg 4 1\/2 in. long. \u00a0It weighed after being dressed 29 1\/2 lbs. \u00a0Mr. C. is one of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2620,606],"tags":[2663],"class_list":["post-2945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-berne-weekly-journal","category-onslow","tag-cox-l-h"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4CY8G-Lv","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2945"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2946,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2945\/revisions\/2946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}