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Connecting With Nature? NOT Cancelled!

This eagle was photographed near the New Hampton Fish Hatchery on January 1. A recent survey by the Audubon Society has found that New Hampshire’s eagle population is increasing. PHOTO COURTESY OF JACK DORSEY

New Hampshire Eagle Population Is Coming Back Strong by Dan Seufert

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There’s good news for New Hampshire eagle lovers. For the first time in history, the Audubon Society’s Mid-Winter Bald

Eagle Survey counted more than 100 bald eagles, and found two rarely seen golden eagles as well. The strong survey results are due to many decades of efforts to restore the state’s eagle popula-

tion, including the reduction of chemical pollutants in the air and water, new laws taking lead bait from fishing tackle, and numerous public education efforts, said Chris Martin, a senior biologist

with the New Hampshire Audubon Society. Martin said the 2020 survey results are “a clear sign” that the population is growing more stable, especially as the top six See EAGLES on 16

LACONIA – Don’t let your current social distancing transform into distancing from nature. As residents of the Lakes Region separate into their homes in order to reduce the spread and impact of the Coronavirus, Prescott Farm reminds you that spring is not cancelled. In fact, nature is a terrific ally in the maintenance of mental and physical health. Prescott Farm can be part of that nature connection, even during times of social distancing. Located on 928 White Oaks Rd in Laconia, the property is a free resource open to the public from dawn-to-dusk every day. Visitors can choose their own pace as they find an abundance of natural sights on the well-marked trails. Starting at the parking lot and winding gradually into the woods, the trails cover much of the 160-acre property. Several different ecosystems, from meadows and vernal pools to thick hardwood lots down by the Maple Sugar Shack, See SPRING on 13

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Grandpa and Grandma don’t want to die for the economy. In the current healthcare crisis some appear to be suggesting that the loss of the lives of grandparents is acceptable if such would maintain a healthy economy for their grandchildren. The suggestion is that, instead of the current stay at home orders and all the other restrictions by federal and state authorities, business should be conducted as usual. Grandpa and Grandma would be willing to die if doing so would save the life of a child or grandchild, but not for the purpose of insuring that such could maintain or acquire an uninterrupted prosperous lifestyle. Why don’t we want to die to provide economic security for our grandchildren? First, because doing so provides no guarantee of financial prosperity for anyone, and any such gains would be temporary. Secondly, because the value of a person’s life does not consist in the abundance of things they possess. Healthcare experts have advised younger Americans to follow careful procedures to protect their elders from contracting a potentially deadly disease. Not protecting them could cause greater problems for all concerned. It is beneficial for a child or grandchild to receive an inheritance from their parents or grandparents, but not in exchange for deliberately allowing

has been defeated on our behalf. So, the fear of the death of the body should not overly concern us, but we should not deliberately hasten the event. Actually, many of us would prefer the instant change to a spiritual body at the return of Jesus to the earth over dying, but that is God’s choice, not ours. As much as we look forward to Heaven we don’t want to die Robert Hanaford Smith, Sr. and his wife because death means Donna at their 50th wedding anniversary separation and we find separation difcelebration in 2017. ficult. It is well to rememthe death of old people. Most old ber that every material thing we people are doing something other possess on this earth is something than waiting to die, even those borrowed. It is not a permanent confined to nursing homes. possession that we can claim Having served as a minister as being always ours. Houses, of the Gospel of Jesus Christ lands, cars, boats, and all types my prayer has been and still is of things are ours only on a temthat somehow my most fruitful porary basis. Again, for most of ministry will be fulfilled in these us those things are not as imlatter years of my life. Even for portant as something else in our us who believe that we have re- lives – people. People don’t want ceived the gift of eternal life from to die because they don’t want to God through Jesus Christ and be separated from other people. have a heavenly home waiting for Hopefully you have enough left in us there are things that keep us you of the image of your Creator from wanting to die. that the people you love are more One thing is that death is an precious to you than the things enemy. It is the opposite of life that you love. I have heard more and we love life. However, as than one preacher who was facbelievers and followers of Jesus ing death indicate that the thing Christ we realize that death of that concerned them most about the physical body is not the dying was the separation from death of the soul and that death See GRANDPA on 18

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I had no idea what day it was and probably would have needed two guesses to tell you what month it was. Then I saw the pine warbler. Oh, must be early April. And I’m pretty sure it’s a Wednesday. Leave it to birds to add a little clarity to this whole mess. So, yes, it is warbler season. Later on that Wednesday, the lone male pine warbler was joined on my deck by a female pine warbler (a drabber version of the bright yellow male.) Then, hours later, another male showed up. They all tolerated each other as they chowed down on the expensive mealworms I had bought for the bluebirds. The warblers were more than welcome to them. Pine warblers are one of the few warblers that regularly visit bird feeders, and I use the term “regularly” loosely. The last time I had seen pine warblers at my feeder was four years ago. I’ve never had any other kind of warbler at my feeders, but I understand yellow-rumped warblers will sometimes visit suet feeders. An

Internet search for “warbler at feeder” will turn up photos of random warblers on a suet cake, but that is definitely the exception, not the rule. Warblers are small, usually colorful, migratory songbirds that are the highlight of the spring birding season. There are dozens of varieties and most of them arrive in New England after the trees have leafed out so learning their songs is worth the effort. Pine warblers are typically the first warblers to arrive in New England, followed closely by palm warblers. Then, slowly and steadily, more and more show up until the warbler season peaks in early to mid-May. It is arguably the “birdy-est” time of the year. So we have that to look forward to, and to keep our heads on straight. When this crazy time in our history gets to be too much, just look to the birds. They’ll make things right again. Chris Bosak may be reached at chrisbosak26@ gmail.com or through his website at www.birdsofnewengland.com

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The Grand Farce Of American Social Distancing This week in Colorado, our statewide stay-at-home order was extended until April 26. Gov. Jared Polis urged everyone to wear a mask of any kind while outdoors. Local groceries are limiting customers to one every 120 square feet of the store. For the first time, my neighborhood playground on Tuesday was wrapped in bright yellow by Michelle Malkin “CAUTION” tape. And in Brighton, Colorado, Syndicated Columnist a father was handcuffed in an empty park by three police officers for playing T-ball with his 6-year-old daughter and wife. We are not a serious country. America’s “social distancing” campaign has gone both too far and not far enough. The restrictions and guidelines are arbitrary, irrational and unevenly applied. While children’s swings and slides are now crime scenes, golf courses and pickleball courts in my city are wide open. Weed and booze stores are considered “essential.” Ice cream, dessert joints and fast-food outlets with takeout and delivery services are still operating. But family-owned, sit-down restaurants that have been staples in our community have been forced to shut their doors after decades in business. Barbershops and hair salons here were ordered to close three weeks ago, but government employees on landscaping crews who cut grass -- like the ones I’ve seen all crammed together in a city truck -- are still earning paychecks subsidized by the taxpayers sidelined from their jobs in the name of safety and public health. In my state, and across the country, private gyms have been forbidden spaces for the masses for weeks. But if you’re a celebrity or Beltway elitist, you can still stay in shape while sanctimoniously taping public service announcements telling everyone else to stay at home. Jennifer Lopez and Alex Rodriguez have been racking up social media clicks by sharing cozy family quarantine videos and coping tips from their multi-million-dollar Florida mansion. “We all need to take care of ourselves, mentally and physically, and also be respectful of the health and well-being of others. At a time when people need to stay apart, we can still find other ways to feel togetherness. Stay connected, and most importantly, stay safe,” Rodriguez tweeted to his 1.2 million fans. Yet, last week, the power couple was caught See MALKIN on 21

Questions Nobody Is Answering This week, according to members of the federal government, and state and local governments, Americans have begun to flatten the curve in the novel coronavirus outbreak. The excitement was muted by Ben Shapiro -- after all, trends can Syndicated Columnist easily reverse -- but real. Americans have abided by recommendations and orders. They’ve left their jobs to stay at home; they’ve practiced social distancing; in many places, they’ve donned masks. The result: a reduction in expected hospitalization and death. According to the University of Washington Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation model most oft cited by members of the Trump administration, the expected need for hospital beds at peak outbreak was revised down by over 120,000, the number of ventilators by nearly 13,000 and the number of overall deaths by August by nearly 12,000. Here’s the problem: We still don’t know the answers to the key questions that will allow the economy to reopen. First, what is the true coronavirus fatality rate? This question is important because it determines whether certain areas ought to be open or closed, whether we ought to pursue -- Sweden style -- a more liberalized society that presumes wide spread, or whether we ought to lock down further. We’ve seen case fatality rates -- the number of deaths divided by the number of identified COVID-19 cases -- but both the numerator and the denominator are likely wrong. We don’t know how many people have actually died of coronavirus. Some sources suggest the number has been overestimated, given that classification for cause of death, particularly among elderly patients, can be variable. Some sources suggest the number is dramatically underestimated, since many people are dying at home. Even more importantly, we have no clue how many Americans actually have coronavirus. Some scientists suggest that the number of identified cases could be an

order of magnitude lower than the number of people who have had coronavirus and not been tested. That would mean that the fatality rate is actually far lower than suggested, even if the transmission rate is high. Secondly, what are we expecting in terms of a second wave? The institute’s model simply cuts off in early August. It does not predict how many people will die in a second wave. This is the most important problem because experts maintain that the virus is seasonal, which means we are likely to see more serious spreading in the fall. And that means we will be faced with either renewed lockdowns for large swaths of the population, with wide-scale testing and contact tracing, or with the realization that we will have to isolate those who are most vulnerable and let everyone else work. Which raises the third question: What exactly can we do? Are we capable of rolling out tens of millions of tests over the next few months -- and compelling people to take tests regularly, since the virus is transmittable while carriers are asymptomatic? Can we create a contact tracing system for 330 million Americans -- and are we willing to submit ourselves to one? One thing is certain: Things cannot continue as they have been. Americans are not going to stay home for months on end, and they certainly will not do so on the basis of ever-evolving models, especially as statistics roll in that look like the lower-end model estimates in terms of death and the upper-end estimates in terms of economic damage. We need transparency and honesty from our scientific experts -- we need to know what they know, what they don’t and when they hope to know what they don’t. We’re grown-ups, and we’re willing to follow their advice. But they need to start answering serious questions, or they will fall prey to the same lack of institutional faith to which all other American institutions seem deeply prone. Ben Shapiro is the author of the No. 1 New York Times bestseller “The Right Side of History.”

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Two weeks ago, President Donald Trump signed the largest stimulus bill in U.S. history: more than $2 trillion. For once, both Republicans and by John Stossel Democrats agreed. Syndicated Columnist The Senate voted 96-0. The House didn’t even bother with a formal vote. At the White House, a reporter asked the president, pointing out that the bill includes $25 million for the Kennedy Center, “Shouldn’t that money be going to masks?”

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“The Kennedy Center has suffered greatly because nobody can go there,” Trump responded. “They do need some funding. And look -- that was a Democrat request. That was not my request. But you got to give them something.” “Something” they got. The bill includes $25 million for Congressional salaries, $50 million for an Institute of Museum and Library Services and lots of other wasteful things. Only a few politicians were wary. Rep. Thomas Massie complained that he wasn’t even allowed to speak against the bill. Rep. Alex Mooney asked: “How do you pay for it? Borrow it from China,

borrow it from Russia? Are we going to print the money?” Those are good questions. Our national debt is already $24 trillion. Now it will jump, percentagewise, to where Greece’s debt was shortly before unemployment there hit 27%. Greece was bailed out by the European Union. But the United States can’t be bailed out by others. How will we pay off our debt? That’s the topic of my new video. There are really three options: 1. Raise taxes. 2. Print money. 3. Default. Let’s consider each:

1. Raising taxes on rich people is popular. Even Michael Bloomberg wants “higher taxes on billionaires” like him. But raising taxes on the rich often kills the wealth and jobs some rich people create. And it won’t solve our debt problem. Even if we took all the billionaires’ wealth -- reducing their net worth to zero -- it would cover only an eighth of our debt. 2. Some on the left now say, “Don’t worry about debt, just print money!” This belief, called Modern Monetary Theory, destroys lives. Zimbabwe’s dictator tried it. Eager to spend more money on wars, See STOSSEL on 21

WHO’s Got China’s Back? It’s easy to point fingers during a deadly pandemic, and let’s do so. WHO first sounded the alarm? WHO downplayed real medical risks? by John J. Metzler WHO calmed or Syndicated Columnist stoked irrational fears? WHO in this case, is the global medical monitor providing us with real time warnings and assessments. Governments and health officials counted on the Geneva-based World Health Organization (WHO) to be the proverbial canary in the coal mine warning us about the evolving dangers of the Coronavirus. Instead the health monitor downplayed the initial phases of the deadly Coronavirus aka COVID-19 in Wuhan, China giving

many outside observers the impression that the outbreak was a small and containable blip on the radar in far off interior China. The timing was worthy of a spy thriller; the crisis starts slowly in China’s Yangtze River valley in late November; the Chinese government in its characteristic covert and obfuscatory way withholds early data warnings allowing the virus to take root before the world really notices. Then by December early warnings are noted but the world was in holiday mode. WHO’s in charge? Dr. Tedros Ghebreyesus from Ethiopia became Beijing’s select candidate to run WHO. He assumed office in 2017, for a five year term, succeeding Dr. Margaret Chan from China. Timelines show conclusively that while WHO knew of the impending

epidemic, it proceeded too cautiously to kick in emergency measures. Why? Dr. Tedros said on Jan 23rd, “I am not declaring a public health emergency of international concern today… this is an emergency in China, but it has not yet become a global health emergency. It may yet become one.” He added, “At this time, there is no evidence of human-to-human transmission outside China, but that doesn’t mean it won’t happen.” Dr. Tedros stated dutifully, “Once again, I would like to thank the Government of the People’s Republic of China for its cooperation and transparency. The government has been successful in isolating and sequencing the virus very quickly.” Pure farce! Dr. Tedros was far too late in declaring a pandemic only on March 11th.

Though the COVID-19 virus emanated from Mainland China, neighboring areas such as South Korea, Taiwan and Hong Kong acted with alacrity and professionalism to stem the spread. WHO pays? The USA remains WHO’s largest financial supporter. In 2019 the U.S. contributions to WHO exceeded $400 million both in assessments (22%) and voluntary donations; almost double China, the second largest contributor at $44 million. Importantly, China has become WHO’s second largest donor assessed at 12% of the budget or $28 million. As recently as 2016 China was only paying $12 million. Ethiopia, Dr. Tedros home country, pays $48,000. President Donald Trump has warned WHO that its China-centric See METZLER on 20

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politics. The Summer Olympics were cancelled in 1916, 1940, and 1944 due to World Wars. This year’s Olympics are only postponed, not cancelled. Let’s find those “silver linings” where we can. It was only 26 years ago that the World Series was cancelled due to a player strike. Millions swore they’d never watch baseball again. But a few years later MLB was setting attendance records and generating record revenue. The whole 2004–05 NHL season and an entire 1,230-game schedule was cancelled due to labor strife and a lockout. But six years later the Bruins won the Stanley Cup. Closer to home, the 2001 Kroger Supermarkets 300 was a NASCAR Winston Cup race scheduled for New Hampshire Motor Speedway in Loudon on September 16, but was postponed to November 23 due to the 9/11 attacks. New Hampshire thus hosted the NASCAR season finale that year. Thankfully it didn’t snow. Rainouts are inevitable, but we need rain. Pandemics happen, but they can unite us and teach us lessons, both contemporary and historical. So let’s persevere and for now keep watching those Classic ESPN sports shows or YouTube highlights until live sports return. Yes, we know that Havlicek will steal the ball, Orr will score the goal, Fisk will hit the homer, Flutie will complete the pass, and Vinitiari will make the kick. But they’re still fun to watch. See MOFFETT on 10

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Now is the time for farmers to make their soap. Those who know the great saving there is in using Potash, do not think of making this necessary article for family use without it. As it is a great convenience for people to know where to procure a good article, we would suggest that our friends Kidder & Duncklee, at the ‘Old Family Store,’ always keep a supply on hand.” That was advice offered in the Domestic Markets section of The Union Democrat newspaper of Manchester, New Hampshire on April 5, 1854. With much finer print and seven columns on a page, a newspaper published in 1854 contained considerably more information on four pages than probably twice or more as many pages today. That newspaper, however, was likely to be published once a week.

Ads in the April 1854 Union Democrat. An editorial column in the newspaper mentioned above insisted that “the world is not so bad as it seems.” As I write this in the midst of the world-wide coronavirus pandemic of 2020, some people may be thinking that the world has suddenly become worse than they thought likely a few weeks ago. The news reported in 1854 was a combination of good and bad, including some tragic happenings, but there seemed to be a welcoming of Spring with market reports and advertisements about products desirable for purchase in the new season. And a reminder of the importance of soap. Domestic market wholesale prices were reported based on that which was sold on April

3rd at the Manchester marketplace. There had been but slight variation in prices though butter was a shade less than previously at 20 to 22 cents a pound and cheese a trifle more at 12 to 13 cents a pound. Wholesalers could purchase a barrel of apples for three to four dollars and a bushel of corn for $1.10. Eggs were priced at 14 to 15 cents a dozen and pork was 7 to 9 cents a pound. Wood was priced by the cord starting at $2.50 for pine and going to a high of $5.50 a cord for some oak and beech. New Hampshire farmers were surely interested in the Cattle Market conducted in Cambridge, Massachusetts on March 29, 1854 as 95 railroad cars of the See SMITH on 19

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Volunteers on an Eagle Watch on Jan. 11. Photo by Bob Vallieres. EAGLES from 16 annual basis. New Hampshire had 59 territorial pairs of bald eagles during the 2017 summer breeding season. Of those, 38 of the pairs were successful at fledging a total of 59 young. Between 1988 and 2017, a total of 427 bald eagle chicks “fledged” from nests located across the state, according to officials. This year’s census was also the first ever to document more than one golden eagle, and marked only the third time in 40 years of mid-winter surveys that a golden eagle had been witnessed. Bald eagles nest in watery areas, which is why they are now seen in large numbers in the Lakes Region. Golden eagles, which nest in cliffs and rocky areas, are known to nest in areas of Canada. They had previ-

ously only been seen in New Hampshire in 2012 and in 2019. One of this year’s

golden eagles was caught in a quickly taken photo in Warren by David Lipsy of Con-

cord, a professional photographer who has been volunteering for state wildlife surveys for many years. Lipsy has photographed many eagles in the state over the years, and like other birdwatchers, he is trained to look for large, dark shapes in the sky. He knows that an eagle’s flight and body characteristics are easily discernible from other large birds; a turkey vulture, for instance, will fly with its wings in a “V” shape, and will have different body characteristics than that of an eagle, which flies with its 8-foot wingspan more in a flat shape. His shot of the golden eagle “is not the best photo, it’s for identification purposes.” “When I saw it, it looked like the shape of an eagle, but I had to have some (Audubon Society) experts See EAGLES on 18

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In Souhegan, this eagle was photographed on Jan. 11. Photo by G. Coffey.

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the Great Bay/Seacoast area with 15 balds, and the Merrimack River watershed with 14 balds and one additional golden eagle. The other regions had lower numbers. Among the bald eagles, 74 adults were counted, “the most we’ve ever tallied on this count,” Martin said. Lipsy said he will continue to help monitor the eagle population, and will keep looking for eagles to shoot. “Eagles are majestic, they exude power, and that’s beyond the power you feel because they are our national bird,” he said. “Every time I see one I get tingles up my spine, it’s such a special bird, and they are wonderful to photograph.”

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allowing hundreds or thousands of elderly people to die in favor of revitalizing the economy would have only temporary benefits and rob many of their loved ones. If the choice had to be made of keeping myself or one of my grandchildren alive because there was only one ventilator available, then of course I would forego the ventilator in favor of my grandchild. Or another’s grandchild or child. But it appears with the present prevalent virus that it is unlikely that will happen as the elderly rather than the young are more apt to need the ventilator. Life is precious at whatever age and the elderly are able to live productive and meaningful lives. To suggest that those who are older are expendable to improve the economy, or, in other words, to provide a better living standard for the rest of the country, is an example of pro-choice thinking (life or death) rather than a pro-life attitude towards all. I have only detailed memories of only one of my grandparents. My Dad’s parents died before I was born: my grandmother when my Dad was but a few years old, and

my grandfather the year I was born, but a couple months before I was born. My Mother’s mother died when I was young; I remember the day, but I don’t have clear memories of her . I do remember my Mother’s father, but, because we didn’t live close to him, I didn’t see him often. I was happy to see him when we had the opportunity and my grandfather was and is an important person to me. I sometimes think about him, though he died decades ago, and I picture him pulling his gold plated watch, which he received for 50 years of employment with the Boston and Maine Railroad, out of his coat pocket and checking the time, and it gives me a good feeling. So I think the country is better off having Grandpas and Grandmas around while allowing everybody to suffer a little hardship and endure some trials and temporary isolation which very well could and should make us all better people. To allow business as usual in these difficult days would likely cause more problems than reducing the number of senior citizens. The goal of accepting

hardship for a while is to save lives of all ages. Jesus Christ said that there is no greater love than for a man to lay down his life for his friends. Jesus did that Himself when He died to take the punishment for our sins and to make it possible for us to have forgiveness and everlasting life. Only Jesus could accomplish what he did by his death and resurrection. Many people have given their lives in service for their country. Soldiers don’t die because they want to, but put themselves at risk for the sake of others. Health care workers and others are doing that today. Business as usual would only increase the number who are put in harm’s way. I love my children and grandchildren and if the choice ever is that of the life of any one of them or mine, I am willing to die for them. But, in the meantime, I hope and believe that my grandchildren, though inconvenienced for awhile, still prefer a Grandpa and Grandma who are not dead, but alive.

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Union Democrat ad. Market Report in April 5, 1854 paper ( The Union Democrat SMITH from 9 Fitchburg Railroad and 58 cars of the Boston and Lowell Railroad loaded with cattle, sheep, horses, swine, and fowls from Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, and Massachusetts brought the animals to market. Hides, pelts, and tallow were also sold with hides bringing up to $6.50 for 100 pounds. In April of 1854, SPRING GOODS for the year were advertised by New Hampshire merchants. If you had been living back then you would have found that many of the goods being sold consisted of fabrics, a telling indication that some families made their own clothing in those days. Silk, velvet, muslin, linen, cambric, and denim were all among the products being sold. There were, however, advertisements for Ready Made Clothing and Tailoring services, along with “garments made to order,” revealing that not all clothing used was home-made. Other popular products appeared to have been dishes and utensils of different types, such as crockery, stone dining and tea sets,

Union Democrat ad. china, glass, tin, and wood ware. Barton and Company at 16, 18, 20, and 22 Elm Street in Manchester, advertised $50,000 of NEW SPRING GOODS including a carpet warehouse with new patterns and painted floor cloths from 3 to 20 feet wide. They also said they had a big store under the Methodist Church. Kidder and Duncklee’s store was the place to go if you couldn’t find something anywhere else, so if you wanted feathers, they had them. “FEATHERS- Live Geese, Sea Fowl, and Hen’s Feathers” were all available. Revolutionary War issues were still being settled in the year 1854. A lawyer from Concord, with an of-

fice conveniently located at the Secretary of State’s office, offered to help widows and heirs of Revolutionary War soldiers with claims against the government. arising out of that war, indicating that no fee would be charged unless he was successful in whatever the claim involved. Congress had passed certain laws which provided for pensions, back pay, or land promised as bounties to soldiers who served in the war and their widows and heirs. Attorney and Counselor at Law Jesse A. Gove, stated that “Under the new pension law, the widows of all Revolutionary officers and soldiers who served six months or more and

married since 1800, are entitled; also the widows of officers and soldiers in any of the wars, who died or were killed in the service, or have died by reason of wounds received or disease contracted while in the line of duty, since their discharge.” Lawyer John T. Moore of Manchester advertised that he could help soldiers who served in the War of 1812 or the Indian wars since 1790, or their widows and minor children, obtain Bounty Land under an act passed in 1850. He also offered help with the claims of widows and children of Revolutionary and Mexican

War officers and soldiers. Notices of transportation companies were placed in the April, 1854 newspaper, including those of several railroad companies. Included were the Manchester and Lawrence Railroad, The Merrimack and Connecticut River Railroad, the Concord Railroad, the Boston, Concord, and Montreal Railroad, the Contoocook Valley Railroad, and the Northern Railroad. The Haverhill and Manchester Stage gave notice of its schedule for mail stages running from and to Manchester and Haverhill and Newburyport, Massachusetts. The

fare from Newburyport to Manchester, New Hampshire was $1.25. An Omnibus Line ran six times a day between the City Hotel in Manchester and Leavitt’s Hotel in Piscataquog. The price of a ticket was five cents or packages of 20 for $1.00.” The omnibus was a horsedrawn vehicle which I guess was similar to a stage-coach except larger with capacity for more passengers. The April 5, 1854 newspaper printed a poem welcoming the robins back from their winter homes. It was borrowed from the Boston Transcript, and said, in part: “ Of the winter we are weary, Weary of its frost and snow. Longing for the sunshine cherry, And the brooklet’s gurgling flow; Gladly then we hear thee sing The reveille of the Spring. Robins Come!” Robert Hanaford Smith, Sr., welcomes your comments at danahillsmiths@yahoo.com.

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METZLER from 7 actions will prompt a major review of American funding. WHO profits? We cite the old Roman proverb, WHO profits? China now controls five of the UN’s fifteen specialized agencies such as WHO. Through its legitimacy as a supposedly neutral health monitor, WHO was able to effectively spread Beijing’s talking points to a wider audience first in the scientific community, then governments, and later via the media a frightened global populace. WHO served as China’s transmission belt for the Coronavirus narrative. WHO suffers? Among the first was Dr. Li Wenliang in Wuhan who discovered and warned about the dangers of Coronavirus. He contracted

the virus, was silenced by the police and later died. Dr. Li has since become an icon for dissidents and ordinary people for courageously speaking out. Now more than a million people have been infected; 22,000 Americans, 20,000 Italians, 14,000 French, 10,600 British, and 3,200 Chinese (if you believe the number) have died from this terrible virus. This is not the end either. WHO’s responsible? The primary guilt lies with Beijing’s regime who spread a deadly miasma of disinformation about the virus through both its State run media as well as the gullible WHO in Geneva. The narrative that Coronavirus came from bats offered a colorful and folkloric story to obscure the Chinese Communist Party’s hidden hand of both screwup and coverup inside China most likely

connected to two research labs; the Institute of Virology and the Wuhan Centre for Disease Control. The United States and other key countries such as Britain, Canada, France, Germany and Japan have provided WHO’s funding for emergency preparedness, response capability and expertise. There’s no doubt that WHO has positively contributed to disease eradication and control such as the fights against Polio and Malaria. Thus the issue clearly becomes the WHO’s leadership, not its important and vital global health mission. John J. Metzler is a United Nations correspondent covering diplomatic and defense issues. He is the author of Divided Dynamism The Diplomacy of Separated Nations: Germany, Korea, China.

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— THE WEIRS TIMES, Thursday, April 16, 2020 — MALKIN from 6 by paparazzi exiting a Miami gym whose frontdoor sign read: “This gym is not open. Stay home stay safe.” Actors Mario Lopez and Mark Wahlberg have also become quarantine time favorites, sharing dance routines, home workouts and homeschool scenes to show their commitment to self-isolation. But last week, the buff Hollywood bros ventured out to a posh Los Angeles F45 Training facility to tape a partner workout together (with a twoperson film crew) that they told their viewers to replicate in their apartments or backyards. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s personal trainer bragged that until last week, she was working out at the private Supreme Court gym. “Everybody’s been shut down,” trainer Bryant Johnson told Law360, a legal news and analysis website. “The only reason why I didn’t shut the justice down is because, hey, she ain’t having it,” Johnson said. Translation: We are not “all in this together,” like the cliched hashtag saying goes. The privileged among us get VIP gym access during lockdown, while ordinary Americans are cooped up inside doing pushups in the living room, lunges through the bedroom, makeshift treadmill runs in slippery socks across the kitchen floor, and bicep curls with their jugs of laundry detergent. Wealthy LA denizens were still flocking to trendy farmers markets last week -- until they were shamed on Nextdoor and other social media outlets. Throngs descended on the D.C. Maine Avenue Fish Market last weekend in defiance of stayat-home orders. Mardi

Gras partiers and spring break students formed contagion-friendly mobs while authorities sat on their hands. Philadelphia hoodlums are still holding tailgate parties with carloads of boozers. New York subways remain stuffed to the gills with commuters on trains and platforms. But cops in Florida did crack down on a pastor in Tampa for holding services at his megachurch, and police in New Jersey arrested 15 attendees at an Orthodox Jewish rabbi’s funeral. Mandatory mass isolation (or at least the illusion of it) is an efficient way to instill hysteria and disrupt lives but a poor means of actually protecting the most vulnerable. Selective social distancing is a futile exercise in virus virtue signaling. Either we’re all in or we’re all out. You can’t attribute curve-flattening to “social distancing” if huge swaths of people never practiced it or opted out when convenient. How long must we carry on the charade? Public health autocrat Anthony Fauci insists we must continue living like this until there are “no new cases” and “no new deaths” -- and until a vaccine (which his control-freak pal Bill Gates is working overtime to foist on the world) is in place. This is nuts. The zero-cases/ zero-deaths standard doesn’t exist for any other pandemic. We’re strangling ourselves in CAUTION tape, riddled with holes, for show. Pretense is a pointless cure worse than any infectious disease. Michelle Malkin’s email address is MichelleMalkinInvestigates@ protonmail.com.

STOSSEL from 7 higher salaries for government officials and luxury for himself, he had his government print more money. But that meant more money pursued the same goods. That caused explosive inflation. Soon, a $2 bag of onions cost $30 million Zimbabwean dollars. The more money the government printed, the more inflation there was. They eventually even issued 100 trillion dollar bills. Today those 100 trillion bills are worth about 40 cents. Inflation wrecked lives in 1920s Germany, Argentina and Russia, and in modern-day Venezuela, too. 3. America could simply refuse to pay our debt. But that would betray everyone who invested in America, and bankrupt Americans who bought Treasury Bonds. Defaulting on your debt wrecks economies, too. When Argentina defaulted, unemployment rose to 21%. Once you’re deep in debt, no option is good. How did we get to this point? Presidents have talked about the dangers of debt for decades. But they didn’t deal with it; they just talked about it. “We have piled deficit upon deficit, mortgaging our future and our children’s future,” warned Ronald Reagan. “We must act today to preserve tomorrow.” Bill Clinton said, “We’ve got to deal with this big long term debt problem.” Barack Obama called driving up the national debt “irresponsible” and then proceeded to do exactly that. Donald Trump complained that Obama “doubled” the nation’s debt. But now, under Trump’s presidency

and the new CARES Act, our debt will grow even faster. This will not end well. So far, the deficit spending hasn’t done enormous harm. But it will. You can stretch a rubber band only so far, until it breaks. Our debt will wreck our children’s lives. Yet, today politicians mostly talk about spending more. John Stossel is author of “Give Me a Break: How I Exposed Hucksters, Cheats, and Scam Artists and Became the Scourge of the Liberal Media.” For other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit www.creators.com.

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