Now! Then! 2025! - Yorkshire On This Day

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A very wet harvest here; but I have saved all my corn by injecting large quantities of fermented liquors into the workmen, and making them work all night.

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[Letter to Lady Grey] A very wet harvest here; but I have saved all my corn by injecting large quantities of fermented liquors into the workmen, and making them work all night.

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• Alcohol (drug) (60) ·
• Beer (35) ·
• 📌Foston, North Yorkshire (5) ·
• Smith, Sydney (1771-1845) (7), wit, writer, Anglican cleric ·
• Wheat (14) ·

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