wanted for weft, wanted for twist
Asses Raining, and rivers likely to rise.
Blind Fair.
Crest Wanted for weft.
Clay Wanted for twist.
Cater Clean stained but sound.
phrases under headings “General Advices and Market Reports,” and “Classifications,” ex O. B. Graham & Co.’s Telegraphic Code, New Orleans. Manchester, 1868
BL copy, digitized April 29, 2013 *
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When all this was over, Morgan decided, he was really going to devote himself to the hardware store.
— Anne Tyler. Morgan’s Passing (1980) : 265
tags:
blindness; cotton; cotton codes; hardware stores
O. B. Graham & Co.’s Telegraphic Code (1868); Anne Tyler, Morgan’s Passing (1980)