Potatoes in a Basin and a Distant Dinner Plan
A letter notes how to boil potatoes in salted water until dry then serve, recalls Hannah Curtis and a potato pot, and mentions a 240 to 264 bushel potato yield in Ohio. it also reports a fast horse in Oregon that could cover 112 miles in 24 hours and a rider who used the animal over 20,000 miles in six years.
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Justis Morgan
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le Woo
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Danid Webster
Hanpon
Fletcher Webster
Dax Fostonen
Toma
Baker
Hannah Curtis
Mr. Stuart
Wisconsin
Oregon
Rockford
Plains of
Arkansas
Dancing a Moral Agent in Household Amusement
A moral defense of dancing arguing it as a healthful, restorative activity when domesticated and kept at home. It condemns excessive ball room culture while urging parents to encourage parlor and family dancing to curb vice and excess in youth. The Cleveland Herald echoes support for domestic dancing as a safe, wholesome recreation.
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Cleveland Herald
Raecenio
Howe and the Skunk and Other Odd Tales
A jumble of 19th century items mentions a boastful lion story with a skunk, a free black man Sandy Butler in St. Marys county convicted of saddle theft facing state sale for twenty years, and various local anecdotes. It notes Charles Ransom opposing abolition in a Owero church subscription, a veneered procession in Quincy, a Rockville Virginia land offer, a New York burglary case, Kansas relief funds redirected to clothing, and flotilla of oddities from Miss Pillott to a Smyrna Masonry surge.
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New York
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