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South Branch Intelligencer
Romney, Hampshire County, West Virginia
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Miss Mary Ann Middlebrook, a 21-year-old from Anne Arundel County, Maryland, sold her 5,000-head cabbage crop for over $225 this week, raised and sold 500 pounds of turkeys on Christmas Eve for $100, and knitted over three dozen pairs of socks since October 10. The article praises her self-sufficiency.
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Ann Middlebrook, a young lady from
the county of Anne Arundel, Md., not yet
22 years of age, sold the last one hundred
of her cabbage crop this week for $8.50—
The whole crop numbered slightly over 5,000
head, and has aggregated something over
$225. When it is remembered that
Miss Middlebrook is not remarkably robust,
weighing only 125 pounds, and that she
tilled the soil and made the crop with her
own hands, but few will withhold the remark
that Miss M. is every inch a woman.
Christmas eve she sold in the Lexington
market, in Baltimore, over five hundred
pounds of turkey of her own raising at 20
cents per pound, and since the 10th day of
October last, has knitted over three dozen
pairs of socks. Now if there is not a wife
worthy of any man, we would like to know
what constitutes worth in a wife. So a
man in pursuit of a better-half might go a
long way and fare worse than in old Anne
Arundel—Times
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Anne Arundel County, Md.
Event Date
This Week
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sold 5,000 head cabbage crop for over $225; sold 500 pounds turkeys for $100; knitted over three dozen pairs socks.
Event Details
Miss Mary Ann Middlebrook, not yet 22, weighing 125 pounds, tilled soil and grew cabbage crop herself, sold last 100 heads for $8.50 this week; sold turkeys she raised in Baltimore market on Christmas Eve; knitted socks since October 10.