Victory on the Farm A Woman Wins Back Health and Happiness
A serialized health culture narrative tells how a former consumptive woman with almost no money revived a 160 acre farm. After mortgaging, she bought a cow and livestock, planted gardens, and budgeted carefully while living off milk eggs and produce. Strawberries and raspberries yielded small profits shared with a neighbor.
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Paper From the Old Home Town
A nostalgic verse about the little country newspaper from the speaker’s Old Home Town. It comforts a reader at day’s end, noting its modest print but honest tone. It chronicles local events, social news, and crops, while contrasting big papers with the hometown paper that lifts spirits.
To Be Continued at the Farm Return I Had Treated Health
The excerpt notes modest earnings from blackberry and potato sales amounting to 15 dollars over six months, enough to sustain the narrator at the farm. It reflects a shift from health concerns to immersion in daily life and surroundings as recovery seemed possible.
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Bluett family visits and town events in 1913
Grand Rapids visitors Alpin e and Mrs Bluett. Miss Alma Berdan spent Sunday with her parents at Auburndale. Mr and Mrs T H Brown of Ves per visited. Miss Mabel Winch stayed with relatives at Marsh field. Communion at Presbyterian church. Mr C W Bluett and wife to Grand Rapids for his new role as under sheriff. Ladies aid notes and farewell party for Bluetts hosted by Royal Neighbors and Modern Woodmen. Next meeting April 30 at Mrs A Hoekstra's. A town farewell remark closes the piece.
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E, W. Bluett
Grand Rapids
Alma Berdan
Auburndale
B. Whittingham
T. H. Brown
Vesper
Mabel Winch
Marshfield
Presbyterian Church
C. W. Bluett
Bluett
Tnder
George Gardner
A. Hoekstra
Royal Neighbors
Moaern Woodman
Bethel Bethel News Notes From The Academy And Roads
Bethel reports farm work starting and road hazards between Bethel and Arpin. Miss Mary BE. Pearl’s death was corrected as a mistake. Local visitors include E Pearl and F Foot from Pittsville and Prof. Brown of Marlewood Academy. Senior pictures taken in Grand Rapids. Dynamiting stamps active for weeks.
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Mary BE. Pearl
E. Pearl
Frank Foot
Pittsville
Academy
the Bluff
Grand Rapids
Johnson and Hill of
Prof. Brown
Marlewood
Bethel
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Australia
New Zealand
Put School Yard First in Civic Improvement
Opinion urges communities to beautify school yards over public squares. The piece argues living spaces shape children, not dead monuments, and calls for permanent residents to supervise plantings. It cites neglect of school yards compared to cemeteries and urges starting now with accessible plants. Located in Los Angeles Times note.
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A. le MacPallane
Los Angeles Times
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