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Originally Posted by Dan So, I'm attempting to write my first period piece and I'm having more logistics issues than I thought I would. I know there's a few people on here who know more about history than I do, so I was hoping someone could help me out. It's set around the early 1900's, I think, in the south, doesn't really matter exactly where.
1) Would it be reasonable to think that someone could live in a country house built pretty close to a train's tracks?
2) Would it be believable around this time for a train to regularly (at least twice a week) come through a rural southern town?
3) Say a girl was raped by two men then killed at this time period. Would doctors in a small rural town have the technology to be able to know that she had been raped by two different men?
4) What curse words would a 60-70 year old rural southern man use? I'm assuming 'hell' or 'damn' or in extreme cases 'Goddamn' are a given, but I don't know about, say, the f-word or the s-word.
Thanks for your help in advance! | 1. I think it would be a little strange..to have all this land to choose from to build a house (or lay train tracks) and someone chooses to do either?
2. Most definitely. Actually more than twice a week also.
3. Probably not. Unless there was something simple like she pulled hair out of their head; different color hairs, etc.
4. Most of the common ones today were used "back then."
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