HOMETOWN HISTORY
October 22, 2020
150 Years Ago
H.L. Luther and M.H. Bissell are barreling their stock of eggs for shipment to market. Luther has about 600 barrels and Bissell 350 barrels. The barrels hold from 70 to 75 dozen each, packed in cut straw. The business is increasing and will be pushed with great energy next season. Farmers can count their eggs a standard cash article with a sure market at a good price. Feed liberally, give good shelter, and keeping poultry will pay.
The most unpleasant, hideous noise that the human mind can imagine is that produced by the patent exhaust valve now in use upon locomotives. The suddenness of the noise as well as its harshness is enough to arouse one from the soundness of slumber.
In Delaware County, a gang of horse thieves have been arrested at Shavertown.
October 1870
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