Otsego County Historical News
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American Female Enterprize
In Middlefield,
Otsego county, an establishment has been formed by some young ladies for the
manufacture of imitation Leghorns, and they have already been so successful as
to undersell, advantageously, the traders in the regular article. They
supply the surrounding county at a cheaper rate, with equal quality, than the
merchant can afford. Several specimens are now before us, manufactured by
the Misses Jones, proprietors of the establishment; and they are highly
creditable to their industry, taste and skill in the art. [Republican
Compiler (Gettysburg, Pennsylvania) November 24, 1824. Submitted by Nancy
Piper.]
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