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This is a collection of Fountain Pen Articles, Fountain Pen Histories and Fountain Pen Essays that have been published either online or in obscure books or jorunals. Things that I found while doing research on other pen topics and I thought were too good to be lost to obscurity and should be put online where a Google search could unearth them easily for the fountain pen enthusiast and fountain pen researcher.. If you know of an article that should be placed here, please let me know.
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Found in Vincent's United States Register20 May 1862
Garroting- The Mephis papers give the particulars of a robery and garroting of a gentleman, in his room, in the Gayoso House, in that city, on this day, in broad daylight. It seems that a man, named Keller Kurtz, traveling agent for C. F. Newton, Manufacturer of gold and silver pen and pencil cases, in New York, had been several days in Memphis, confined to his room, most of the time from serious pulmenary complaint, and was on that morning in his room and in bed. The robber walked in, locked the door, put the key in his pocket, chocked the poor fellow senseless, and robbed him of all the money he had, a gold watch and chain, five dozen Congress pens, with silver holders and three dozen Henry Clay pens, also with silver holders. The loss is about $350