Rents and Reckoning in Cobleskill Frontier
In the Van Heusen region tenants resist writs over rents, arguing land was unjustly won by feudal lords. A tense pursuit unfolds as a writ is attempted and tar and feathering erupts. The narrator, torn between justice and duty, witnesses mob dynamics, amasked confrontation, and the clash of Old World feudal terms with American ideals. The episode, ending with the narrator’s moral pivot and resignation to pursue conscience over authority.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
van Heusen
Hokey Nettie
America
Old
Holland
Young Latour
Josiah Curtis
Latour
Purvis
Curtis
Arees
Bart
Feller
Eve
Coblestit
Cobleskill
Judge Westbrook
Curtla
Kila
David Hoffman
Silas Wright
Journey to Canterbury Reveals Squire Fullerton's Secret
Barton Paynes recalls meeting Kate Fullerton and visiting Canterbury to learn of Silas Wright's influence. An old guide reveals Fullerton’s grim family history burial plots and Kate’s past, including her kidnapping and a harsh life under wealth and betrayal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lake Champlain
Chimney Point
Kate Fullerton
Canterbury
Kate
Middlebury
Weybridge
Wright
Senator Wright
Anscsres
Sam
Canton
Silas Wright
Bos
Barton Paynes
Barton Baynes
Silas
Flo
Cobleskii
Ray Sureprise
Washington
Peare
Tayve
Gouch
Indy
It Cant Go Dore and a Midday Musing From Moraine
A fragment cites a French professor claiming ideas peak between two and five in the afternoon at the moraine. The quip questions if the learned figure has ever achieved such insight while near his wife during late night hours, and the speaker agrees with a terse we.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dore
Virya
Asault
Machine Quickly Prepares Flax After Harvest
A Scotch inventor demonstrates a device that processes flax for manufacture within hours of pulling from the ground, replacing days or weeks of preparation. The breakthrough promises faster textile production and may impact local fiber markets and mills.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Scotchman
Conscientious Delaware Justice Fines Self Over Park Smoke
A Port Penn area justice of the peace disciplined by fining himself after smoking in Rockwell park, noted as dis orderly conduct under new military rules. Local reports show fines from soldiers who offend have totaled 3.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Delaware
Boschee's Syrup advertisement note in American period paper
An advertisement promotes Boschee's Syrup as a cough remedy that soothes sore throats and inflamed lungs, reduces bronchial irritation, aids sleep, and eases morning expectoration. It claims fifty two years of American manufacture and usefulness for throat and lung troubles including cough, asthma, and bronchitis.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
America
Adv
Banana Consumption Big in 1914 Global Share
In 1914 the nation consumed 48.49 billion bananas, with Jamaica supplying 15 million bunches, Honduras 8 million, Costa Rica 5 million, and Panama 5 million. Other sources included Quatermla, Mexico, Cuba, Colombia, Nicaragua, British Honduras, Santo Domingo and Brazil. Infections or inflammations of the eyes may heal by Roman eye balsam. Adv notices for Cuticura products promote Baby skin care and Cuticura Toilet Trio.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jamaica
Honduras
Costa Rics
Panama
Quatermla
Mexico
Cuba
Colombia
Nicaragua
British Honduras
Santo Domingo
Brazil
Cost Queries and Spring Remedies in Odd Verse
A quirky excerpt ponders cost and purity as Nature aids Spring cleaning. References to Jo-I Jim-Por and Wright's Indian Vegetable Pills appear amid playful wordplay about money and a turkeyish goose with a large bill.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nature
Wright
L-ady
Also Mentioned on This Page
North Country
Irving Bacheller
Eben Holden
D'ri
L” “Darrel
Bieseed Isles
Lissie
Irvin
Squire Fullerton
Jola
Fullerton
Katherine Fullerton
Squire Pufferton
Rete Pullerton
Asin
Griueshaw
Nate
Jen
Yong Grimeshaw
Boschee’s Syrup
Jim
Kidoe
Bright
Ohio
Jesse HH. Nall
Port Washington
Doan
Mother Cray
Mother Gray Co
le Roy
Mother Gray
Arey
Frey
E. & S. Frey
Baltimore, Md
Ceeed
Bee Dee
Bee Dee Stock & Poultry
St. Or
Dept. W
Des Bicck Medicine
C. Chattancege
Teun
Cate
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!