Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 December 1893 — Queer Freak of a Nail. [ARTICLE]

Queer Freak of a Nail.

T. T. Bell, of Independence, Mo., while chopping down a large walnut tree a few days ago, found a tenpenny nail ten inches beneath the surface. Mr. Bell says he remembers driving it there while fixing a swing at the beginning of the war—thirty years ago.