Then and Now Prices Compared by Iowa Grange
An Iowa Jones Mill Grange meeting features H. Johnson comparing thirty year price changes for farm inputs and outputs. He argues farming is easier today despite higher prices, citing examples in butter, oats, barbed wire, harvester costs, eggs, pork, shoes, horses, lumber, and rent.
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Jones Mill Grange
Iowa
H. Johnson
Mr. Johnson
Oddities and Anecdotes From Cobbling to Rail Fare
A collection of quirky vignettes and misreadings from travel and home life. Tales range from a shipwreck winter salvage starring a runaway lamp chimney and bottle bottoms, to a railway booking gag. Included are language muddles, classroom mispronunciations, and the eccentricities of early 19th century lexicographers.
Alluring Surrounding and Odd Dialogues in a City Tale
A fragment from a 19th or early 20th century column mixes a lodging scene with a dubious view of a cemetery and jumbled dialogue about arsenic beauty beliefs and social lineage. The piece jumps between quirky exchanges and stray phrases, portraying urban life with odd humor and clipped conversations.
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Philadelphia
Cincinnati
Conversion of Harrington Tests Womens Honor
Harrington, drawn to Miss Spencer by a conversion pact, falls for Irene Emerson after learning she refused to join a conspiracy to embarrass him. A trolley acci dent and a note expose the plots as he moves to honor and gratitude for Emerson and the stronger, shared standard of virtue among women.
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Miss Hunter
Miss Emerson
Haverington
Spencer
Emmy
Misa Spencer
Larriigton
Mark
Miss Spencer
Miss Spence
Druton Chonttom
Huttrington
Bim
Bhiciterou
Gillen
Sijittiet
Trarrington
Mike Spent
Hoevigton
Iim
Aather
Tin
Liss Spencer
Misa Hunter
Jin
Irene Emerson
Mina Emercon
Mise Emerson
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