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Potato Hill Sage Observations and Town Gossip
A Potata Hill column recounts local vignettes featuring Jeff and John Martin leaving Aunt Martha Win ton without goodbyes, town humor about hens, calomel and quinine, and residents like Marsh Edson George Hart and John Noble. It blends social quirks, marriage, education, suffrage, and urban rural contrasts in a brisk, period-tone sketch.
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Jeff
John Martin
Martha Winton
Martha
Potato Hill
Jake Eaton
Joe Bush
Joe
Doc Bailey
Wash Brigham
South Forty
Wash
Marsh Edson
John Walsh
Morrison
Death’s
Frances Wills
John Hart
George Merritt
Anna
George
George Hart
Henry Wells
Thomas
Tom
Bill Sutton
Bill
Harrison
John Noble
Bradwood