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Newspaper
Grand Rapids Tribune
Location
Grand Rapids, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1906
Page
7
A veteran recounts a desperate coastal battle with British forces. He details close combat, a bayonet duel, and the chaotic retreat of the redcoats across moistened ground, noting American casualties and British losses near Cleswamp. The narrative ends with reflections on bravery and the cost of war.
The obituary anecdote recalls Edward Atkinson, once a boy who played on the Boston common despite the law. Constable Erastus Clapp chased trespassers, earning the nickname Disastrous Clapp. As an adult Atkinson met a bent old man resembling Clapp and claimed, I am Eadie Atkinson. The old man retorted no honest boy ever ran from me.
A Chicago Daily piece critiques overtaxed life and urges genuine repose. It cites Charles James Fox praising leisure under a shady tree with a book. The writer warns modern crowds crowding asylums and stresses balance between activity and idle, purposeful rest.
A practical guide on fattening chickens for market, outlining pen setup, feeding regimens, and care. It describes separating cockrels and pullets, using powder for pests, whitewashing, and specific mixes like corn meal and wheat middlings with bone meal. It also covers crate fattening, feeding troughs, and packing dressed poultry for sale.
The article urges keeping winter layers through proper hen selection and housing. It emphasizes red winter layers, comfortable houses, roomy scratching sheds, and timely feeding to ensure steady eggs. It discusses careful flock management, marketing day-old chicks, and breeding birds now for spring readiness, plus nest safety and feed considerations.
Advice from the Indianapolis News urges selecting a quality incubator over price and emphasizes careful uncrating setup. It recommends placing the unit in a room with stable temperature and good ventilation, maintaining calm conditions, and following printed instructions while avoiding unnecessary trimming and overhandling.
A farmer describes a low cost method to winter seven bee colonies on trestles with straw and boards under a sloped roof, offering a safe, simple packing system. The piece then urges hard-hearted culling in poultry breeding, stressing clear ideals and disposal of culled birds for profit or family use while advising roosters, space, and proper feeding.
A household page offers decorative ideas for crystal wedding tables with cut glass bowls and chrysanthemums, plus a lengthy jelly and marmalade recipe using quince, citron, and gelatine. It includes Ancestral Pancakes, Scrap Drawer tips, Sour Milk Pancakes, Greap Cranberries, Molasses Drop Cake, and a quip about a dentist’s ad.
A fragmented account outlines the Canadian West attracting settlers from the United States and abroad. It highlights free land grants, climate, markets, and promises of prosperity, along with government promotion and competing incentives that drew thousands, shaping western settlement trends.
An advertisement recounts severe eczema and relentless itching that covered the body. It claims dramatic relief after using Cuticura preparations and mentions a prior misdiagnosis of rheumatism while noting recovery and improved health.
A man named Tyla battled a wildcat on a mountain road after being attacked while walking home. The animal leaped ten feet away, then he dodged and struck, breaking the beast's back. A physician treated scratches. the man was otherwise uninjured.
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