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Newspaper
Marshfield Times
Location
Marshfield, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Apr 23, 1913
Page
7
A consumptive but determined woman recounts moving to a 160 acre farm, mortgaging forty pasture to survive. She buys stock, crops, and poultry for $93, living frugally, growing fruit and berries, and selling surplus to cover mortgage while surviving on milk and garden produce.
A nostalgic verse about the country newspaper as comfort after work. It praises its simple upholding of local life, parties, crops, and gossip from Pumpkin Row and Bent, contrasting it with city dailies and novels. The poem ends with a wish to read that familiar hometown paper.
The speaker recalls earning $15 from small farm items like blackberries and potatoes during the first six months, remarking that these trivial sums kept them afloat while recovering. Health became less central as they immersed in daily farm life, with the text indicating a continuation.
Arpin Co. W. Bluett and Mr. and Mrs. T. H. Brown visited Grand Rapids. Miss Alma Berdan stayed with her parents at Auburndale. Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Bluett plan to move to Grand Rapids where he will serve as under sheriff. Miss Mabel Winch visited Marshfield relatives. Communion services were held at the Presbyterian church. The Ladies Aid met at Mrs. George Gardner’s. next meeting will be at Mrs. A. Hoekstra’s on April 30, 1913. Royal Neighbors and Modern Woodmen hosted a farewell party for Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Binett with snacks and desserts. End with reminder to value good friends beyond appearances.
News from Bethel covers farm work activity, a mistaken death report, road hazards, Pittsville visitors, an Academy outing to the Bluff and Grand Rapids portrait trip, dynamiting stamps activity, local store sales, scripture quotes, and sermons by Eld. J. L. Cady recounting Fiji and mission work.
A letter urges communities to invest in school yard greenery over public squares, arguing living plants foster character and honor living students. It notes many districts lack trees or plants in yards, cites teacher turnover, and calls for community residents to donate cuttings and plantings to modernize school grounds.
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