The Many Lives of a Brook Trout in Spring Time
A narrative of a brook trout’s life across six ages from infant to aged adult. The piece covers early feeding, growth, and changing habitats from stream shallows to river pools, the dangers posed by anglers and hooks, and the eventual decline and death as seasons turn, ending with a boy discovering the season’s largest fish washed ashore.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sveomd
Trout
Dame Nature
Broakside
Faust
del Gramites
Nana
Moral Hidden in a Bank Error Be Friendly to Bankers
A young man with a bank account deposits twice and learns a check to a friend has cleared while another check bounces. He receives a now familiar note accompanying the payment for an Easter hat. The Indianapolis News ends with the moral be friendly to bankers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ite
Indianapolis
Ance
Indianapolis News
First Mother's Day Revival Begins in 1910
A shortened fragment notes that Mother’s Day was revived in 1910 after earlier observance and spread across the United States, signaling a national revival of the holiday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Revival of Mothering Sunday in English church history
The customs trace back to the sixteenth century when Mothering Sunday was observed on the fourth Sunday in Lent. It involved people living away from home, especially youths, taking a day off to visit their parents and bring gifts.
Bump Proof If You Combine Work And Happiness
A brief inspirational line argues that combining hard work with happiness in one’s work helps endure difficult times without feeling bumps. The piece frames resilience as achievable through steady effort and positive mindset.
Drake and his Dragon voyage across the South Seas
The narrative follows Francis Drake from his early bold raids into the Spanish Main to his 1573 circumnavigation of the globe. It recounts captures near Cape Verde, the galleon at Santiago, the spoils of silver, gold, and jewels, Drake’s elevation by Elizabeth I, and his later campaigns against Spain, ending with his death at sea.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Judith
San Juan d'Ulloa
Francis Drake
Devon
Spain
Drake
Plymouth
South Seas
England
Cape de Verde Islands
Brazils
Magellan’s Straits
Dengland
Straits
Pacific Ocean
Chile
Santiago
Peru
Moon
Kha
Fletcher
Elilzabeth
Prake
Greenwich
Parson Fletcher
Francis Fletcher
Indies
Philip II
Lord Howard
Portugal
John Hawkins
West Indies
Nombre de Dios
Reading myths through universal vision and truth
The passage argues that true vision in myths rests on universal laws shared by all human nature. It claims vision perceives enduring truths, though faintly, and that understanding grows as one grasps these common realities. It emphasizes timeless accuracy in interpretation.
Scandalous Town Defined By Local Dialect And Life
A London Mail column explores how the word scandalous miscues many village realities. It cites gabled cottages and a winding brook as traps while cherishing an elderly resident nicknamed Old Scandalous. The piece notes the origin of scandal and ends with a road that abruptly ends near the narrator’s gate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ly J. Ramsey
London Mail
London
Thatcher
Call for Fifty Dollar Loan Overheard Conversation
A fragment shows a caller asking Mac McPherson to lend $50 and another speaker promising to tell him as soon as he arrives. The dialogue captures a casual loan request exchange between two parties.
Ruskin on Homer through Dante and reflective art
A reflective remark by Ruskin suggests understanding Homer by viewing him through Dante and by tracing changes in landscape colors seen in a hillside and its mirrored lake. The passage emphasizes art as mirrored perception across ages.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Homer
Dante
Ruskin
Meeting interrupted by a man’s mug remark
A speaker at the meeting was interrupted as he stated a plan about “one mug at a time.” The audience responded cheerfully, urging him to continue with a positive, “you go on.”
Duckling care and feeding for sun protection and rations
Shade and shelter are essential to prevent sunstroke in young ducklings. Provide burlap or brush shelters and keep water cool near feeding areas. Feed schedules start at 36 hours old with mixed grains, bran, and beef scrap, gradually shifting to a fattening ration. breeding ducks receive higher beef content but not the fattening mix.
Sudden Feed Changes Spark Molt in Pullet Flocks
Changes in feeding or care of laying pullets can trigger a molt and drop egg production. Guidance urges gradual shifts in diet, avoiding abrupt switches between wet and dry mash, meat scraps, or different feeds. Do not alter the established laying ration to force molt, says Rural New Yorker.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Yorker
Feeding During Summer Months For Laying Pullets
The article explains that pullets grow first and do not lay during growth. It suggests using fattening feeds like corn to slow growth and using egg-stimulating feeds such as animal food to encourage early laying. This method targets pullets used as layers and not breeding stock.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Plymouth Rocks
Rhode Island
Color of Young Chicks From Mixed Egg Breeds
Color of young chicks from mixed egg breeds such as Black Langshaws Black Cochins often hatches white chicks yet remain pure and will grow into black fowls. Chicks from white breeds like White Plymouth Rocks White Orpingtons and White Wyandottes hatch dark or yellow but shed to white. Stocks rarely show barring at first.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Plymouth
Hen Contentment and Humane Treatment in Farm Life
A farmer argues that overworked land can be restored with fertilizer and care, while an aged hen cannot be rejuvenated to meet egg production targets. He contends the hen should be treated well during active service and given a comfortable fate instead of neglect.
Water Glass Test at Utah Experiment Station
In April 1 at the Utah experiment station twelve frozen eggs were placed in a crack and covered with a ten percent water glass solution. During the following winter some eggs were tested and showed very good condition. Many were kept until late June of the next year and retained a fairly fresh appearance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Utah
Also Mentioned on This Page
Ay Louis Rhead
Nature Magazine
Loual
Captains OF Adventure
Geese, Merrill Company
Sir Frances Drake
Mac
Mac McPherson
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!