Lawrence Lore
Mar 10, 20231 min read
An Apple a Day
Agriculture Report for 1888 · 37,578 acres of corn yielded 30 bushes per acre. · 26,849 acres of wheat or 4 percent less...
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Lawrence Lore
Mar 6, 20232 min read
Eggs Twenty Cents a Dozen in 1883
Bridgeport News in the Rural Republican December 28, 1883 Several family reunions took place on Christmas. Only twenty-six Schmalhausen’s...
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Lawrence Lore
Feb 28, 20232 min read
1889 February Happenings
February 1888 News Gleaned from Rural Republican Chas. Parkinson, merchant St. Francisville, carried the best thread on the market--...
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Lawrence Lore
Feb 26, 20233 min read
Obituary for Dog 1889
February 1889 News Gleaned from the Sumner Press A Chapter of the O. E. S. (Eastern Star) instituted with fourteen members. Mrs. Rose...
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Lawrence Lore
Feb 8, 20233 min read
Sell a Subscription; Go to the Fair
These two glass items are from the Essie and James Gillespie Collection. They are labeled Chicago 1900. The curators at first thought...
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Lawrence Lore
Jan 31, 20234 min read
Lawrenceville and Vicinity News 1889
January 1989 Gleaned from the Rural Republican Grand jurors for February term 1889 Allison: William Warner and Levi Watts; Russell: James...
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Lawrence Lore
Jan 27, 20234 min read
NEWS OF SUMNER AND VICINITY 1889
January 1889 Gleaned from Sumner Press New Year’s gift to Mrs. M. Coffman a daughter. Francis M. Burget to Mary E. Shick married in...
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Lawrence Lore
Jan 13, 20233 min read
Snow, Rabbits and Jay Leonard’s Mule
January 10, 1879 Rural Republican Around and About by the Editor: Cold weather. Beautiful snow. Wild game is plentiful and cheap....
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Lawrence Lore
Jan 11, 20231 min read
"Short Commute"
Mr. and Mrs. T. W. Roberts located in Lawrenceville about 1866, where Mr. Roberts engaged in a general merchandising business across the...
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