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...Frigid correctness is the bane...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 2/7/1879 | See Source »

...entries in such weather as this is enough to try the patience of more angelic dispositions than we boast of possessing in Weld. Why, we would ask, are not we favored with a furnace as well as the inhabitants of those other equally modern buildings, Holyoke and Matthews? The frigid air penetrates our walls as well as our doors and windows, and even our grates, which are acknowledged to be of a peculiar make, are not proof against this combined attack of the wintry blast. To leave open our outer doors is an utter impossibility, that is, if we object...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A VOICE FROM WELD. | 1/26/1877 | See Source »

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