"Stump the Yankee"

[Gene C]

(10-29-2012 08:51 AM)J. Beckert Wrote:  Hint #3. I've never seen this item mentioned anywhere. It has stayed in the Lincoln family since 1865. Robert saved it because he was sure it was the last thing Lincoln used before he left.

Nose hair clippers. Mary sent him upstairs to trim his nose hair, and that's the real reason they were late to the theater.
(from the recently discovered Potter Papers manuscript - "Unknown things about Abraham Lincoln's Assassination that I'll claim are true that you can't disprove")