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Newspaper
Denver Tribune
Location
Denver, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 07, 1920
Page
2
John Harris, discontent with a Canadian town teaching job, leaves to become a homesteader in Manitoba. He marries Mary who joins him as they journey with Alec McCrae to claim a homestead. They begin farming on the prairie and Mary continues by his side.
Harris and his wife endure a night attack by an unknown horseman after selecting their prairie bench. The intruder fires, Harris is unharmed, the girl is aided, and by morning they begin building a sod and clay dugout with a ridge pole frame. They plant wheat and oats by early June and tend a small garden.
Morrison buys a self binder to harvest the settlement crop as Harris seizes market time with 600 bushels of wheat and 700 of oats. Mary Harris endures hardship, while Harris treks home through a binding blitz yard to safeguard his wife and livestock.
The article explains isinglass derived from fish bladders, noting gelatin content from 86 to 93 percent. It describes steps: tearing from the back, removing outer skin, washing, drying on boards, and flattening the inner skin via hammering and rolling to produce the final product.
The summer brings dense settlement around Harris homestead as Garris builds a stable. Tom Morrison’s log house rises as a local castle while Dick Matheson and John Burton establish camps nearby. Missionaries visit Morrison, Dr Blain operates from Plainville, and Plainville grows at the railway junction. harvests finally yield an extraordinary wheat and oats crop.
The essay recalls the union of York and Lancaster as a symbolic blend of white and red roses. Henry of Lancaster married Elizabeth of York to cement peace, creating a striped red and white blossom echoed in England and remembered in the country.
A 1797 will by Peter Thelusson left £100,000 to wife and children and the residue about £600,000 to trustees to accumulate for heirs. The fortune would revert to the eldest great grandson if heirs failed, with surplus to a national debt sink fund after twenty years. A long litigation ended with the eldest son’s grandson inheriting, though the estate diminished by mismanagement.
A Bend Oregon sawmill worker wakes to a hen that lays a fresh breakfast egg on his bed. The bird later arranges more eggs and pecks the sleeper gently, while near the mistress’s shoulder the hen nests and the clockwork routine continues.
A旅行 through Western Canada’s wheat belts reveals vast grain harvests and thriving rail hubs. The 1920 crop forecast estimates wheat over 250 million bushels valued near 700 million dollars, plus strong oats, barley, flax yields and expanding livestock and dairy sectors driving a future market rush.
A cluster of men stares at a storefront display labeled domestic and imported hops for sale. They speculate the "makin's" mimic cigarette making, but for beer. The scene suggests improvised hooch production and uncertain legality.
In a dark night scene a sergeant hears a roar and dives into a shell hole already occupied by a chat. The G I Can phrase appears as a fragment while a head is struck by incoming blast. A moment of silence and a muttered wish to avoid an explosion concludes the brief vignette.
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