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    "Wanda's" 5E Archived Message

    Posted by H. McMurchy on November 26, 2016, 2:17 pm, in reply to "Recent purchase grade 5E"

    Lots of information about "Wanda" about 2/3 down here
    http://docs.google.com/document/d/1Rlf_g8-XfH2zGUygpuBFbw7mBy1BYfTYTG_B0d0yHWw/preview

    http://www.traphof.org/People-Stories/wanda-qetta-butts-lindsleyq.html

    The Art of Wingshooting, William Bruce Leffingwell, 1895, p. 105
    http://books.google.com/books?id=e34EmE3tkfkC

    Sporting Life, Jan. 23, 1897
    Mrs. M. F. Lindsley (Wanda), wife of Milt Lindsley, the King’s smokeless powder maker, was presented with a beautiful L.C. Smith gun for a Christmas present, by the Peters Cartridge Co., and King Powder Co. of Cincinnati.

    This could be the gun. From Leslie's Weekly Illustrated, N.Y., May 4, 1899, taken at the 1899 GAH. Note the handguard



    “Some People We Know”
    Written for the Sportsmen's Review by Mrs. M.F. “Wanda” Lindsley

    Having a little time to spare
    I offer the reader some news here and there,
    Of people of note and wide renown,
    All well known in many a town.

    I notice that Crosby's not shooting for fun
    When he enters a match with his Baker gun.
    And J.A.R.E. from a small town out west
    Is as good as they make them, if indeed not the best.

    Quiet Fred says not a word
    Just goes out and kills all his birds.
    Then there is Dan LeFever and Courtney as well,
    The one builds good guns for the other to sell.

    As a salesman, King Tuck is as good as they make
    And the Parkers are pleased with the orders he takes.

    And Rolla who hails from the wild, wooly west
    With his banjo and gun, can't say which he plays best.
    But of one thing I'm certain, the boys like him well
    And to his marksmanship none can excel.

    Here's hoping I'll meet you again, as before,
    On the trapshooting field in a battle for gore.
    I'll write no more words nor close with a song
    I just hope I haven't kept you too long.


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