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A store used to come to the farm, and the important thing about it is that it bought as much as it sold.
The huckster ran a fixed…
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Every American town on a railroad had a depot, and essentially everything that entered or left the town went through it - people, freight, mail, parcels, newspapers, telegrams,…
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For a long stretch of American history, eighth grade was not a step on the way to anything. It was where school ended.
And it ended with an…
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There was a box beside the kitchen stove, and keeping it full was the first real job most American children were given.
It held split wood cut…
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Small towns fielded their own adult baseball teams, and the team carried the town's name in a literal sense - a result against the next town over…
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Winter used to make the roads better. That single fact is almost impossible to believe now, and nothing else about sleighs makes sense without it.
An unpaved road…