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Early history of Caroline; newspaper clippings, 1794 - 1902

 File — Box: 3, Volume: 23
Scope and Contents Vol. 23 (formerly Harris 5135 D43; Mulks's signature on flyleaf); on both clipping-obscured and clipping-free pages, Mulks's own account of the history of and pioneers in Caroline Township, some possibly based on recollections by the Middaugh sisters; p. 28: Ithaca Fur Company skunk farm (New York Sun Sept. 9, 1895); p. 89: Businessmen in Slaterville; Supervisors meeting (1894); Town meetings; p. 111: Dewitt Clinton's Canal Journal of 1810; p. 125: Rev. Tyler's stories; Gen. Henry Bloom...
Dates: 1794 - 1902

Newspaper clippings, almost entirely poetry, 1876 - 1884

 File — Box: 3, Volume: 25
Scope and Contents

Vol. 25 (formerly Harris 5135 D45); [original guide provides no additional contents]

Dates: 1876 - 1884

Caroline records; Politics; Black voters; newspaper clippings, 1820 - 1879

 File — Box: 3, Volume: 26
Scope and Contents

Vol. 26 (formerly Harris 5135 D46); Early Caroline records, 1820-1830; Politics in Caroline; Intimidation of Black voters (1878); Gen. Cantine's Waverly tract; Time table of early Owego to Cayuga transportation (railroad; steamboat, carriage); "A Reliable Cipher"; Slaterville School entertainment, including students Jay Phillips, Harry Davis, Omar Mulks, Charles Northrup, Mary Crispell, Susie Slater, and Sallie Duell (March 29, 1879)

Dates: 1820 - 1879

Newspaper clippings; manuscript notes by Mulks, 1894 - 1904

 File — Box: 3, Volume: 27
Scope and Contents Vol. 27 (formerly Harris 5135 D47); Clippings almost all of column entitled "Replies and Decisions," from an unidentified commerce and finance periodical, probably out of New York City (1900-1904); Manuscript notes by Charles Mulks, 1894 and later, including: about the Amana Society, Iowa, from a May, 1900 article in Chautauqua Magazine; First description of the Town of Caroline, from the 1813 edition of Spafford's Gazetteer of the State of New York; Mulks's interview of Sextus B. Landon of...
Dates: 1894 - 1904

Newspaper clippings, more than half consisting of poetry, 1873 - 1879

 File — Box: 3, Volume: 29
Scope and Contents

Vol. 29 (formerly Harris 5135 D49); on flyleaf: "Centre Lisle, Broome County, New York, May 1, 1876"); "Tioga County from 1784-1876" (series from Waverly Advocate); "Historical Record of Ithaca and Tompkins County" (from unidentified newspaper, read by Horace Mack, 1876); [per old typewritten guide: "Mostly deals with Cornell 1911-1912: stories about Proctor {Theodore H.) Twesten, student-town clashes, undergrad hi-jinks, etc."]

Dates: 1873 - 1879

Early history of Caroline; newspaper clippings, 1867 - 1868

 File — Box: 3, Volume: 24
Scope and Contents

Vol. 24 (formerly Harris 5135 D44); Masonic symbolism, article on; Pres. Andrew Johnson's Impeachment trial, story on; Frances O. Thurston-Simeon S. Newell scandal; her suicide (Broome Gazette, Whitney's Point, Feb. 26, 1868)

Dates: 1867 - 1868

Newspaper clippings, primarly a series entitled "The Susquehanna Valley", 1900

 File — Box: 3, Volume: 28
Scope and Contents Vol. 28 (formerly Harris 5153 D48); "The Susquehanna Valley" originally published in the monthly "St. Nicholas,'" at the Owego Gazette, 1853-54; reissued in 1900 by Owego Gazette editor, Charles P. Avery; Genealogy of the Ellis Family of Ellis; Ann H. Smith Will contest (1900); "Result of a Doctor's Joke," re contest of wits between Dr. Eaddie and the Ithaca Board of Health during a diphtheria epidemic (Ithaca dispatch in the New York Sun, March 29, 1900); Marriage of Eva-Dawn Willsey to L....
Dates: 1900