No one going to point out that you would need half a million dollars to buy all that today? This kid was rich!
Also, cleared 18 acres?! I’m assuming that’s forest because of the location, and damned sure didn’t have powered machines to help. Dude must have been built like a tank.
Maybe he found a good spot where the vegetation wasn’t as dense and tall?
Also, it’s the 19th century. How long has it been since native populations were much higher? Could have been an overgrown old field.
I like the fact that he has absolutely no preference whatsoever. Like he has no clue what a woman is, just that he apparently needs one.
If I was in his shoes, I’d want a wife, too. Farms are a shitton of work and a partnership would share the burden and improve both our lives.
There’s a cool “reality” show from the late 2000s called Victorian Farm where a group of historians move into an old farm and live like the late 1800s for a year. One of the historians is an expert on domestic life and it’s fascinating seeing what being a “housewife” was like. They work just as hard all day and if their husband is sick or hurt, they have to pick up the slack in the field.
A couple of years ago I read Salt: A World History which as expected was about salt. A large percent of the book was about how salt was used a preservative and talking about how it was done. This included recipes and examples of “domestics work” throughout the ages. Its easy to forget about how of this “housewife” work included preserving and rationing the food to last all year. This included a lot of different passage about how to butcher and then preserve different animals, not to mention, cheese making, pickling, fermenting etc. A lot of this work is highly specialized and labor intensive. So of course this man needs a wife since he wasn’t trained on these skills.
That’s a great book. I would recommend his other works as well.
If you lived in Aroostook county you’d understand this level of desperation too.
“believe in Andy Johnson”
Immediate rejection, boys are so problematic these days
yeah, this is actually a back then incel
Was he like the old time Andrew Tate?
Worse - Andrew Johnson was the president who succeeded Abraham Lincoln, and proceeded to back the defeated South’s desire to reclaim the US as a “white man’s nation” against the wishes of the Radical Republicans in office. And, for that matter, against the wishes of even the moderate Republicans at the time (at least insofar as backing the South was concerned), though they were less outspoken about it.
Ha. Called it. Thank you for taking the time to explain it
busy little guy, guess a lots possible when you dont have an internet connection, and dont want to starve to death.
And live in Aroostook county, there’s still basically nothing to do there.
Old timey Tinder is not so different, but seems a bit more honest.
Include below is a sketch of his penis.
You say while you haven’t seen his teeth, his buckwheat, his sheep or his house.
I would argue that modern day Tinder is full of pretenders who pose with cars and houses which they do not own or vacations which they should not afford. And don’t get me started in the use of Photoshop. So this text is basically the same.
My point exactly, yet you wrote that this text is more honest so i am not following what you were trying to say.
Oh, then sorry for the misunderstanding! :-D
“of the female persuasion” - is that a normal turn of phrase?
It makes it sound like gender is fluid (like “she convinced herself she’s a girl and there’s nothing to be done about it”), which I absolutely love, especially considering it’s the mid 19th century…
It looks like somebody asked about this phrase on the English StackExchange.
They don’t make ‘patriotic’, simple minded farm men like they used to…
I wonder if the patriotism was the closest they could safely signal “agnostic” (in a public ad). It seems unusual that “God” didn’t make the list, for the time.
Maybe it would be so unusual to not believe in God that it wasn’t worth mentionning.
Mmm… You might be onto something. Guess it wasn’t that easy back then to find a like-minded qt.
