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- GLC#
- GLC03347.19-View header record
- Type
- Journals & Diaries
- Date
- 1879
- Author/Creator
- Booth, Thomas R., fl. 1861-1908
- Title
- 1879 Diary of Thomas Rogers Booth
- Place Written
- Various Places
- Pagination
- Primary time period
- Rise of Industrial America, 1877-1900
- Sub-Era
- The American Civil War
All entries take place in Kitanning and Bethlehem Pennsylvania. On May 23rd, he tells a story of how they accidentally set the chimney on fire. He tells another anecdote on July 5th in which someone's cat keeps killing the chickens so he poisoned a piece of beef with strychnine and put it in the cellar in the hopes the cat would get it.
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