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      2010 marks the 150th anniversary of the birth of Sidney Paget (1860-1908), an illustrator closely associated with creating a visual identity for Arthur Conan Doyle’s character Sherlock Holmes. The lean, elegant Holmes Paget presented to readers of the Strand magazine worked beautifully with Conan Doyle’s text, and formed the basis …

      An assessment roll is a public record of taxable property. The headings for each column on a page is listed under full text.

      This is a memoriam notice for Ethel Evalina Brant who was born on February 15th, 1891 and died on June 27th 1891.

      This 1891 document confirms the High Court of Justice's commission to Frank Smoke for the County of Brant, enabling him to take Affidavits, Depositions, Bail, and other similar actions.

      This 1891 document is the probate of the last will and testament of Dennis Curtin of Paris, documenting his choice of executors and the gifts he made.

      This was the first house in Athens to have a furnace in the cellar and a cistern in the attic. In those days, the residents were slow to accept modern improvements, and Mr. Galliger was told the house would burn down and his cistern would spring a leak and ruin …