Adirondack Murray Father of Outdoors Movement
The article chronicles Rev. William Henry Harrison Murray, born 1840, famed preacher and author whose Adirondack works sparked the Murray Rush. It notes his early pulpits in Boston, his book Adventures In the Wilderness, and the mass travel to the Adirondacks that followed, plus the creation of Adirondack Park and Preserve. It highlights his lasting legacy as the father of the outdoors movement in the United States and local memory of his Guilford homestead.
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Lafayette
Mount Desert
Mune
Sipithibe
Lelleve
Dext Dorgettus
William Henry Harrison Murray
The
Adirondacks
New York
St. Lawrence
Champlain
Take Champlain
Gormor Parnall
Six Nations
Canada
Great North Woods
W. A. A. Mary
Boston
Murray
Guilford
Cuno
Yate
New England
Wark Street Congregational Church
Henrys Ward Beecher
Wendell’. Phillips
Sumzer
Gough
Ticknor & Fields
Emerson
Longfellow
Whittier
Holmes
Hawthorne
Halleck
Agassiz
Prescott
Beecher
Phillips
Metds
Adirondack
Poplar
John Norton the Trapper
Fann
United States
Empire State
Adironaack Park
Hamiton County
Essex
Franklin
St Lawrence
Warren
Herkimer
Adirondack Preserve
Essex County
Mt. Marey
Lake Placid
Saranac
Jobo Norton
Cooper
Bampo
W. H. H. Murray Noes
New York Tax Contributions Rise Despite Rate Cuts
New York City paid about 5000000 in federal income taxes from nearly one million filers, accounting for over a third of national taxes. American Telephone and Telegraph led major assessments at 15485545, second to Ford Motor, with changes tied to 1924 act reductions and district filings in Manhattan south of Twenty third Street.
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New York
New York City
Telephone and Telegraph Company
Tes
Ford Motor Company
Telephone Company
Manhattan
Twenty-third Street
Rolla
Usas
Why hayload superstitions persist in rural life
The article argues the wishing tradition attached to a load of hay is a relic of ancient nature worship. It links the practice to myths of Osiris and Balor, noting how harvest rites survive as modern superstitions and comparing weekday and month names to remnants of heathen worship.
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Adonis
Balder
McClure Newspayer Syndicate
Origins of Montgomery and related surname lines
A condensed study traces the Montgomery name from Gomerie in Normandy to Roger de Montgomery at Hastings and on to the Welsh town Montgomery. It notes John Montgomery, born 1722 in Ireland, who joined Carlisle’s expedition against Indians in 1738, and outlines Shirley and Hellier surname origins with Derbyshire manor ties and early German immigrant Hellier ancestor Christopher Heller who founded Hellertown.
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Montgomery
France
Gomerie
Gomerih
Gowa
Mont
Wales
John Montgomery
Continental Congress
Ireland
New World
Manny
John
Carlisle
Johan Forbes
Shirley
Seualus
Sewell
Derbyshire
Edward II
Heller
Hellier
Tyler
Helge
Christopher Heller
Worms
Germany
Hellertown
Nuremberg
Buvgaria
McClure
John Locke’s Liberal Thought Compared With German Philosophers
George Matthew Adams notes Locke born August 29 1632 in Somerset England studied at Oxford and developed interests in politics theology medicine and philosophy. He wrote the Essay Concerning Human Understanding and Reasonableness of Christianity and died 1704 promoting universal toleration and freedom of thought and action.
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Locke
Hegel
Somerset
Whire
Oxford
Fay
Holland
England
Something to Think About by F A Walker
A reflection on the value of skilled labor and hard work. It extols hands that toil without bias, linking industrious effort to national strength and personal fortune. The piece argues sustained effort shapes cities, fortunes, and enduring legacies, urging readers to work with purpose.
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F. A. Walker
Sete Bangs
McChure Newspaper Syndicate
Motes Cook Book in Fair Weather Days
A fragment recalls a life of easy days and feasting as the Motes Cook Book appears in a nostalgic scene. The text hints at a cheerful baking culture and simple pleasures, framed by reminiscing about rainbows and smooth fortunes.
Winter Cucumber Pickle Recipe From 19th Century Likely
Instructional fragment detailing a candied cherry and raisin layered cucumber pickle. Steps include boiling elder vinegar with sugar and spices, adding cherries and raisins, then cucumber layers before filling jars. Readable but incomplete. preserves period culinary style.
The Young Lady Across the Way
A fragmentary verse line notes a young lady across the way expressing belief in a shared fate if France and they were alone in it. The garbled text suggests a poem fragment with unclear author and context.
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France
Bry McCrate
Cherries and Raisins Jam Preparation Notes
A dated kitchen recipe describes making pepper jam with cherries and raisins. It instructs boiling mix, sealing jars, and processing seeds, then chopping and combining with sugar and vinegar. The mixture is simmered to a jamlike consistency and poured into glasses, cooled, and topped with paraffin.
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John Locke
George Matthew Adams
Ted Ae
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Motes Cook
Pete, Meare Weil
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