Census Taker Hiring Ideas and Arithmetic Banter From 1879
A 1879 article discusses how to locate census takers and poses humorous and probing questions about ages marriages and daily life. It recounts a tale of an Arab dinner and a money division puzzle, notes Sharlow County New York political shifts, and ends with census pay rates tied to names farms and travel miles.
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The Bloom of Age and a Lincoln Bond Scandal
A reflection on enduring virtue in women, praising benevolence over youth, followed by a brief note claiming Mrs. Lincoln possesses 60 000 in bonds. The fragment ends with an unrelated ad line about hair pins.
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Theft and upheaval in a frontier tale and aura of a wild West
A sprawling, faded narrative blends a brutal cat attack and a brutal husband’s violence with eccentric villagers in a rain drenched town. Characters include Mrs Call and Lydia in a tense social scene, a Deacon, and Brown in unfamiliar city streets as a comic misrecognition unfolds. The final note mentions an end to the Canadian war.
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