Boy has own dairy
William A. Thayer - Dairyman
June 20, 1943
William A. Thayer of New Ipswich, N. H., is only 13, but he has his own milk business. He bought a calf when he was 10, and when it grew up the idea of a dairy was born. Now he has three cows and a calf. Here he milks Deer Face, his first cow. He manages to milk twice daily, make deliveries and attend school.
Filling station.
Young Bill Thayer fills his milk bottles and places them in his cart-trailer for delivery. He arises every morning at 5, milks and delivers and is in school at 9 A. M.
Delivery.
Thayer's Dairy truck pulls up before a house and Bill serves a customer. His route is three miles long and he delivers twice daily delivery is completed at 6:30. After supper he studies and is P. M. It's hard work, but it pay well.
Formulas
Stephen A. Thayer’s “One Hundred Formulas” was published in 1883. It contains recipes from everything from printing ink to pain killers. Have a cough?
James Roger diary entry
December 15, 1908 (Tuesday)
Cloudy morning mild day with west to SW wind. Snow melting sleighing very poor. David logging with E.O.C. Wheeler for Shirland from Steve Wheeler’s to Watermill. Meeting (Social & Literary) at Parsonage tonight. Mr. Peacock and Dixon Wheeler got Xmas trees today. Party at Parsonage tonight. Literary program “Nature of Man”.
Apparently boneset was used by indigenous people to reduce fevers.
Mr Thayer showed his entrepreneurial spirit from an early age. Excellent story and photos.
Nice story of Billy Thayer. I didn't know this. I worked for him for 3 summers. I thought he had life easy as the grandson of Walter, I was wrong, looks like he was ambitious and had the Thayer gene for entrepreneurship. As we know even after Tricnit he started a firewood business. My respect for him just when up a notch. 6 miles/day pulling a wagon of milk which he got by hand milking! While in elementary school!