One more humorous item and I promise to QUIT for the day but couldn't resist this one! Van Buren Press Van Buren, Arkansas (Crawford County) May 22, 1868 TO QUIET A CRYING BABY, prop it up with pillows if it cannot sit alone, and smear it's fingers with thick molasses ; then put half a dozen feathers into it's hand, and it will sit and pick the feathers from one hand to the other until it falls asleep. As soon as it wakes again--more molasses and feathers. Fran Alverson Warren