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Flailing Wheat and Old Sayings From Sullivan Union
A Hudson Valley reader recalls flails used by Sullivan county farmers in past decades and contrasts them with modern threshing. The piece also honors Uncle Bob Stewart, notes sassafras tea nostalgia, and critiqued spring poets and debutante fashion before parsing presidential convention odds and a local blind tiger case in Curry county.
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New Jersey
John W. Canary
Sullivan County
Hopatcong Mountains
Martin W. Swope
Washington County
Swope
New York
Philadelphia
Capt. Canary
Indiana
Bob Stewart
Curry Township
Farmersburg
Jennie
Wiliam A. Cullop
Bob
Jie
Scotland
Sassafras
Bardsley
Hig
Ollie Goodman
Fred Bedwell
Cass
George Berlien
Berlien
O. M. Sebring
Shelburn
Jesse McCracklin
Anderson Brothers