Forlorn Farms Reflect Berkshire Population Shift
Tyringham and Berkshire County in Massachusetts show continued rural population decline over the last decade. Despite overall county growth, 23 agricultural towns lose about 10 percent while manufacturing towns gain. The piece analyzes geography, rail access, water power, and social changes driving urbanization and the fading rural farm economy.
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Tyringham
Mass
Commonwealth
Massachusetts
Berkshire County
Lenox
North Adams
Berkshire
Pittsfield
Boston
Albany
Fitchburg
Berkshire Hills Farms and the Emerging Summer Resort Scene
The Berkshire region shifts from exhausted soil myths to a growing summer resort appeal as farm sales rise and city buyers flood in. Census figures show population shifts in Otis Sheffield and Egremont amid abandoned mills and vanished farmstead gaps. Hospitals report 37 417 bed patients and 786 448 57 dollars in net outlay funded by benevolent public via Saturday and Sunday hospital collections.
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Hospital
Ww Associated
Otis
Farmington
Egremont
Sheffield
Lombardy
Catskills
Vermont Mountains
Connecticut Hills
Captain Norton
Association
Depopulation Prompts Look at Rails and Rural Life
The article surveys small towns with varied facilities from churches and libraries to daily mails and post offices. It notes depopulation not caused by railroads, cites Sheffield as oldest town in the county, and portrays shifting farming fortunes with rich estates contrasting dwindling independent farmers.
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Sheffield
Connecticut
Housatonic
Xclusive Novelties In Rich Imported Cotton Dress Fabrics
Xclusive novelties in spring season fabrics exhibited starting tomorrow include printed mall tissues silk brilliants embroidered Swiss muslins gaze rage printed plametis and more. Also a full line of shirtings mercerized chambrays linen crash suitings French nainsook cambric Swiss edgings insertions and novelties. Special sale of cotton embroideries on Monday December 31 with notable reductions on coats fur garments and sables.
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Oxford
Madras
Spelling your and I mix in lampoon verse
From The Harvard Lampoon a playful verse imagines how silly language would be if we spell you and I as u and I. The piece toys with homophones and letters to provoke a smile about how spelling can twist meaning.
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Harvard Lampoon
Albany's New Station Opens as Fine City Landmark
Albany unveils a three story Milford granite station built for New York Central and Hudson River, Boston and Albany, and Delaware and Hudson lines. With 286 foot Broadway frontage and a 143 by 80 foot waiting room, it features a long canopy protected platform, underground passages, and extensive track and grade-crossing improvements.
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Albany
Capitol City
New York Central
Hudson River
Boston and
Delaware and Hudson
Saratoga
American Express Company
Milford Grantta
Shipley, Rutan & Coolidge
Thirteen Day March in the Philippines Described
Lieutenant W H Wilson of the 434 United States Volunteer Regiment recounts a thirteen day hike covering eighty four miles from Barugo on Leyte. He notes no rebels encountered, reports killing fifty three insurgents including a major and two captains, captures arms and ammunition, and says over a thousand insurgents surrendered since. He provides a map and situates his operations along Leyte in relation to Samar and Luzon.
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J. G. R. Lilliendale
W. H. Wilson
United States Volunteer Regiment
Philippines
Wilson
Barugo
Leyte
Carigara
Sweeney
Samar
Luzon
Youthful Enthusiasm Counts in Brooklyn Life
In the Brooklyn Life snippet a speaker wonders what youthful enthusiasm means and notes the idea of knowing mites more than one's father. The fragment hints at intergenerational insight and curious social observations from the era.
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Brooklyn
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Vermont
New York State Line
Hoosac
Adams
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New York
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Seountry
Uresque
Lanesborough
Richmond
Lee
Hancock
New Marlborough
Sandisfield
Connecticut Valley
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Tribune Almanac
New Albany
The
Berkshires
Union Railway Station
AT Albany
Great Barrington
B.altmand Go
Cambric and
Nainlook
FUR Department
Alaska
Hudson Bay
Eighteenth Street
Nineteenth Street
Sixth Alvenue
B. Altman & Co
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