Nostalgic Look at Old Home Life and Modern Refinement
The author contrasts past domestic life with present comforts, recalling a hilltop homestead, wheel and loom, family meals, and simple hospitality. They lament lost simplicity, rising fashion, and social change, noting fewer acts of generosity and deeper community bonds fading with time.
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Land of Silence
Howe
Pachbors
Acua
Wmnber
Solomon Daventes
Soloman
Corton
Dom
Egypt
Shaleman
Humum
Dinsey Wookey
WieMe UU
Jess
Be Cheerful El Muss Mamala Gowan
Dear reader, if you contribute to happiness around you, be cheerful for cheerfulness illuminates society and health. Some embody sunshine with kindness, shedding a pure ray over life’s path. We should always seek the bright side and spread gladness to others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ole Branca
Triangular Bridal Spoiled by Sudden Ill Fate
An unfinished sketch of a sensational inland city romance unfolds a youthful Kentuckian daughter using two suitors a minister and a landowner. At the planned triadic wedding the groom collapses and dies prompting a dramatic confrontation and a postponed union amid family shock.
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Daguettes
Rwice
Oman
Ban
Has Mval
Mobister
Meheath
Bell Prank Brings Bargain on a Steamboat
A Vermont visitor aboard a North River boat in Albany becomes obsessed with the ship’s bell. He rings it for a dollar, then negotiates five dollars and a free New York passage to stop, causing alarm before finally agreeing to the bargain. The episode ends with the captain directing payment and passage.
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Green Mountains
Vermont
Albany
Ito i
New York
Troy
Thorough Cultivation and the Case for Hiring Help
A Home shed writer rebuts the belief that farmers should avoid extra help. He argues a well managed, cultivated field yields more profit than leaving land idle, citing a farmer who earned about 200 per acre with careful labor and manure. The principle: invest labor on fewer acres to raise returns.
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Heig
Independent
California
Fatmare
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Hornellsville Tribune
Hornellevalle
Edwin Hough
Gillie and Mall
Usiness Directory
WH. Hawley & Son
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Canibtro Clock
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Miles
Hasled
Leessee
Martin Adsit
Hornfusville
York
Aleo
England
Ireland
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Stort
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Ynch, Esq
Marto Adsits
Jones ‘Horneitsville
Tau
Irvine
Hornellsville Insurance Agency
Miller
Hartford Insurance Comperues
Bank of Hornellssili
Eb, Shattuck, M. D
Church
Ely & Browns
J. W. Blanchard
Watchvaker and Jewelle
Baldwins Boud & Rug
Hernellsvlle
Jamison
HM. D
Centre Street
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H. G. Fay
Church Street
Hit
Main Street
Erastus Belden
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Philician
Nornellhalle
Intel
E W. Robertson
Almond
Allewany County
D. Robinson
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Western Hotel
Hornelsville
Pani
R. Pardee
Hornelisville
Shattuck & Trumbull
Horwlisvire
ME. Brown
Cor ‘Man
Church Streets
Horselville
Hawley & Badler
Fanah
Pensions
Vain
Yarnelin Pie
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American Hotel
Thompson & Booth
Elmira x OY
Bukhing
Depot
Beard
Swift
Tulor
Amenern
Horm Ts Dic
R. Nichols
Isaac E. Sharp
Tranksta Tiser.&e.hc
James
Wilkey
Man Street
L. E. Horton
Hema SN
E. N. Wheeler
BAT & Capstore
Cerrer
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Chorch Tis
Cape
Canis
Richard S. Curtiss
Mannkastasres
Henkin Farists Arts Ctihars
Afererydesrep Et Reals
Tate Copptns We Ae
Shopea Hares Anes Phe Wenn Church
Corderman & Brown
Puogifssleighs
Jeania
G. W. Beede
Housesigs
ASP Carling
Prince Ace
Barnes
NT Chaslea Nestille
Walton
Whalebone
EL Mus
Mamala Gowan
Wee Eet Daily
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