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Excerpted from The Chronicle Vol. XI no. 4, December 1958 by Laurence A. Johnson Recently I was browsing through several old copies of the Wolcott New York, Lakeshore News, and I ran across an...

Excerpted from The Chronicle Vol. XIII No. 3, September 1960 by Mary Earle Gould Thestory of my gift of a set of larding needles is well worth telling. I have my Grandmother Gould’s cookbook...

Excerpted from The Chronicle Vol. XII no. 2, June 1959 by Laurence A. Johnson The success and well-being of the colonist when he came to the new land of America depended a great deal...

Excerpted from The Chronicle Vol. III no. 17, October 1948 by Glover A. Snow Not much has been written or published about hand and treadle printing presses of the nineteenth century, altho their introduction...

Excerpted from The Chronicle, Vol. 39 no. 1, March 1986 by Norton K. Brown This picture of basket merchant Andrew J. Love was made by H. M. Rand and F.J. Taylor in Cambridgeport, Mass....

Excerpted from The Chronicle, Vol. XXI no. 2, June 1968 by Robert H. Carlson The purpose of this article is to identify and describe the different types of Spiral Augers and their com­ponents. In...

Excerpted from The Chronicle Vol. 49, no. 1, March 1996 By Clifford D. Fales The availability of better wood screws and the rise of the fac­tory system in the last quarter of the nineteenth...

Excerpted from The Chronicle Vol. 64, No. 3, September 2011 by Patty MacLeish This telephone, which weighs 44 pounds, was “picked up” by Jim Sellers last December (Figure 1). There is a Bureau of...

The following is excerpted from The Chronicle Vol. 59 no. 3, September 2006 by Suzanne Fellman Jacob It’s cold; the wind drives down the back of your neck. Your hands are ungloved in order...