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Hanoverian Village Life
Walter Nordhoff
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Stable and barnyard in an 1880 Hanoverian village
In an 1880 Popular Science Monthly article on life in a Hanoverian village, Walter Nordhoff writes that the best room of his lodgings looked onto the stable and barnyard and took in their smell, and that a manure heap lay on the way in from the street.
One visitor's description of a single house in one village, published in 1880; it records what he noticed then, not how stables smell today.
The statement the claim rests on was found word for word in the text of the cited page or chapter of the digitised source, fetched from the named service, and an editor read that whole text against every part of the claim. The passage is cited by its locator; SmellBook does not reproduce the passage. Source text from Wikisource (proofread transcription).
- Hanoverian Village Life, p. 467 Printed page 467 is image 493 of the digitised volume.
Time described: 1880. The passage states no time; the source's publication date is used as the latest possible time it describes. Checked 2026-10-05.
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Dataset history In the SmellBook dataset since the dataset release of 2026-10-05 · sha256 d10c2deef978.