Harvest memories of old time fields and neighbors
SARGE PLUNKETT reflects on harvest past and present in Georgia and DeKalb. He contrasts communal mistrust with modern profit driven farming, recalling cradle games, rivalries, and feasts, while praising neighborly aid, church duties, and simple wheat bread at threshing time. He critiques college trained cooks and celebrates enduring harvest pride.
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South
Raco
Alec
Merhood
Mrs. Brown
DeKalb
Brown
George Bros
Decatur
Atlanta
George
Georgia
Kansas
Mrs. Lease
Sarge Plunkett
Lawyers Drain Million Estate In Long Wood Vermillion
The 31 million Wood estate project to found a Wood College of Medicine and Music dissolves to 190 thousand after 23 years of litigation. Robert L. Burton buys 300 acres on Jamaican Bay for 180 thousand as relatives clash over trustees and massive misappropriations including 942 thousand questioned by Mary B. Wood. Executors flee to New Jersey with estate books to avoid accounting as lawsuits threaten further fragmentation of the assets.
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New
Var Woerla
Samuel Wood
College of Music
Ola Me. Wood
Woodsburg
Long Island
Penny
Robert L. Burton
Manhattan
Jamaican Bay
Eac
Mary B. Wood
Alfred L. Simenton
New Jersey
Wood
Birthday Reflections of an Aged Poetess Immersed in Life
A seventy five year old speaker recalls aging with humor and grace. The text blends poems and prose about life, death, work, and happiness, citing wisdom from Solomon and Robart, and praising the joys of family and simple labor while musing on mortality. The narrator cherishes grandchildren, yearns to guard children, and envisions guiding angels for the young.
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Yinger
Jangyich
Lident
Ilsue Cme
Tonks
Wowan
Cabe
Pater
Robart
Cowpeas as a Southern Land Improver and Hay Crop
Redding argues cowpeas outperform red clover for land improvement and hay in the South, noting strong nutritive value and milk yield. He describes sowing methods, row spacing, and seed-saving practices, highlighting early June sowing, row planting, and recommended fertilizers for maximum yield.
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Iuelieve
I. Redding
Fragmentary Reflections Echo Antique Poetic Lines
The excerpt blends stray phrases and literary allusions to Hervey Gray and Gray’s country churchyard meditation. It references aging and modest innocence with garbled wording, signaling a clipped, historical style fragment from a personal note or column. No clear event or date emerges.
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Hervey
Gray
Bill Arp
End of the Shalam Colony Settlement in Texas
The famous Shalam colony near Fl Puso, Texas, faces its end after years of contentious existence. In late April, disputes over religious practice and communal ownership led to actions dissolving the traditional, autonomous group.
Abandoned Shalam Colony Recallled by New Mexico Court Loss
A Las Cruces court decision returns property to A M Howland, head of the Shalam colony founded by Dr. Newbrough near El Paso on the Rio Grande. The settlement, 12 years old, collapsed amid neglect and scandal including dietary rules and free love, with orphans raised under the philosopher’s book Oahspe.
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Las Cruces
New Mexico
Parker
A. M. Howland
Newbrough
el Paso
Rio Grande River
Mrr
Howland
Dr. Newbrough
Ssay Wethy
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Dexard
Arphas
Ufe
Anged Doetess
Cumbow
Cardal
Thedford
Minervan
Cardus
Freavice
Lterature
Ladies’ Advisory Arment
Obellancoge ‘Medicul Company
Chattanooga
Fenn
Habelye
Assoria
Dr Sapg
Atenuts
New York
Mereienert
Arponnmians Ed
Meee Isks
Jfzclnia
Wrafper
Re Eee
Castoria
Perie le Higue
Cenune Castoria
Cork Hill
Lion Coffee
Country
Ion Coffee
Woolson Spice CO
Toledo
Bank of England
Bank of France
Bank of Bermary
Bank of Russia
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R. F. Shedden
Ei. Carter
Manufacturers' Agent For
North Pryor ST
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