There’s never enough time for many of us to find the records and stuff that we promised ourselves we’d never forget.
However, in doing some current looking I found stuff I think you’ll enjoy. I found an 1878 (yes the 1878) copy of the July, 12, 1878 Oxford Weekly Journal.
Now don’t turn the page yet, this isn’t a sales pitch. This is a full-size newspaper with news clips from all over the world, Westphalia, MI to Nantucket, London, Cincinnati, etc,
This was the fourth edition of that paper. The masthead read: ‘A literary journal for the farmers, merchants and family.?
In 1878, Cincinnati, ‘The movement against the use of agriculture machinery is reaching such proportions in Ohio and Indiana as to seriously alarm farmers.?
Scores of reaping machines have already been destroyed. On other machines, notices have been posted threatening their destruction if owners do not lay them aside and employ men to cut their grain.
‘Many farmers are yielding and discarding their machines.?
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Worth remembering
It takes more than one to get all the good out of a laugh,
Never think of reasoning with a mule whether it has four or two legs.
To keep your secret is wisdom, but to expect others to keep it is folly.
More from the 1878 Oxford Journal:
Charles Tunstead is renting space in his building at Washington and Burdick. He’s selling wines, whiskies, brandy, tobaccos, canned goods, pickles and corned beef.
The lunatic asylum in Pontiac will open this month. Oxford is expected to fill their allotted space.
A finely furnished bathroom will soon be in running operation next to a barbershop in Oxford.
Incidental history of Oxford weekly newspapering: 1879 Oxford had 4 weekly newspapers, then came The Oxford Beacon, The Intruder and finally The Oxford Leader. E. Henry Congdon started it in 1889, and we Shermans came on the scene May 15, 1955
Now I’ll concentrate on finding a deed for our property in the UP, finding the key to our safe deposit box, and, oh, yeah, finding something to write about next week.