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06-29-23

Hometown History: June 29, 2023

135 YEARS AGO: Over the hill to the poor house – Mrs. Adelia Tobey, widow of the late Zacheus Tobey, formerly of Morris, aged 65 years, was on Saturday taken to the poor house by overseer Beach. She was formerly in good circumstances having, to use her own words, “everything that heart could wish.”…

Putting the Community Back Into the Newspaper

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