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Uncertain Times in a Rural Ledger of Tales and Trades
The page blends odds and ends from farm prices to curiosities. It notes cucumber yields yielding 40 to 100 dollars per acre and a silver 1853 quarter valued at 4.90. It reports arrests and trivial anecdotes, name changes from Bridget to Marguerite, and a long obituary misprint about a roasting place.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
S. L. Myers
Wolcottville
Kendallville
GR & I
Ohio
la Grange Democrat
Bridget
Bridgetta
Etta
Margaretta
Marguerite
Arthur Griffith
Milford
St. Louis Globe-Democrat
Act of Congress
Cable Betwen
Julia Hill
Ddnbury
Conny
Whitlessy
Pooland
Rome
Miss Hill
Cable
Will Clark