Mexican turkey shown to be origin of domestic fowl
The article traces the turkey’s history from its Mexican form to the domestic breed. It notes early European misidentifications, Audubon’s views, and the distinct Mexican turkey influencing domestic fowl more than eastern wild stock. Differences in tail and base feathers are cited, with claims of limited crossbreeding between wild eastern and domestic birds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Audubon
United States
Pennsylvania
New York
Texas
New Mexico
Colorado
Arizona
Mexico
North America
Oh the farm was a bright Thanksgiving memory
The poem paints a lively farm scene with bright harvest imagery and lively animals. It describes hay stacks pumpkins apples and a winter store filling cellars and barns. Children play by the orchard brook fodder barn walnut grove and cranberry bog as a dog watches and a woodchuck hole hides in the landscape.
The Big Home on the Farm Enjoyed A Joyful Day
A nostalgic scene describes a farm as a place of joy for a romping girl and a climbing boy. They help with chores, tend animals, and explore beams and ladders while a bountiful pantry displays cakes pies jams and a grand turkey creating a glorious sight that day.
Thanksgiving on the Farm Morning
A cheerful farm scene captures a bright Thanksgiving morning with sun on hay and corn. Guests arrive early, children laugh and play, pets sought, and races between barn and corncrib. The festive day ends as the dinner-horn sounds.
America's Own Day Thanksgiving origins and uniqueness
The piece states Thanksgiving is a distinct holiday confined to the United States and Canada as the sole national Thanksgiving, celebrated across nations and linked to providence and a people’s perspective. It contrasts with Christmas and New Year celebrations found globally and notes independence and memorial days in many lands.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
America
United States
Canada
Praise and thanksgiving Psalm fragment from 1922 source
A short devotional fragment from the Western Newspaper Union era quotes Psalm style lines praising the Lord. It invokes blessings and thanks, noting the Lord’s goodness mercy and enduring truth across generations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Western Newspaper Union
Local notices and visits fill Saline week
S. Y. Cotton is on the sick list, and many residents visit Detroit, Ann Arbor, and nearby towns. Friends and relatives from Adrian, Dexter, Britton, Ypsilanti, and Grand Rapids drop by. A birthday surprise for Sheldon Rogers, fishing at Portage Lake, and football win of Saline High over Lambertville are noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Emma Burrow
Detroit
E. F. Henne
Ann Arbor
Sheldon Rogers
Ormond ‘Feldkamp
Ferman
Ida Clements
Portate Lake
Elva Hickox
Gibsonburg
Ohio
Florence Bond
Webb Coe
Kalamazoo
Coe
Saline High School
Lambertville
Donn
Scone
Tast Exiday
Michigan Christmas Seals Campaign Opens For 1922
The Michigan tuberculosis association opens its fifteenth annual Christmas seal sale with endorsements from Gov Groesbeck and other officials. Forty two million five hundred thousand seals have been ordered for Michigan to fund tuberculosis work nationwide. Counties will conduct sales, with a five cent per capita goal, and a new Leland trophy will reward top per capita gains. The 1922 drive emphasizes education on prevention and cure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Groesbeck
Michigan Tuberculosis: Association
United States
Michigan
Wetsiteatt
Frank
Leland
Detroit
Paul Honore
Michigan Association
Marriage Licenses List From Local Clerk Office
A batch of marriage licenses shows multiple couples with ages and hometowns including James Surine 30 from Ann Arbor and Mary Rushford 39 from India, plus Walter Curkley 39 of Ypsilanti and Ola Williams 38 of the same, among others. The list features names across Ann Arbor Canton Ohio Calumet Chelsea and more, with varied ages and spouses. The notice closes with a stray editorial remark urging Ford purchase and noting a boss’s job comment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Surine
Ann Arbor
Mary Rushford
India
Walter Curkley
Ypsilanti
Ola Williams
Same
Wallace B. Leake
Catherine J. Fischer
Hancock, Mich
Albert Scherdt
Annn Arbor
Mary Zahner
Hdgar Surine
Atm
Ann+ Mary
Rushford
Tonia
John Simpson
Salem
Helen
Monahan
Brighton
Arthur Boland Schofield
Canton
Ohio
Marguerite Marie Overbeck
Ann. Arbor
Carl Oscar Enlanson
Hileen, Whitehead - Grimes
Kenneth L. MacQueen
Calumet
Harriet D. Kntlight
Jay Radcliff
Chelsea
Myrta Rowe
Albert’ Bache
Chicago
Hilda Greslich
Cincinnati
Walter G. Crestinwaite
Jackson
Etta. Derrick
Ann
Arbor
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Prince
Jock
Ae i In
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S. Y
Guy ‘Townsend
Louis
Kuebler
Manchester
J. Fred Staebler
Paul Kempf
Frank Storey
Dexter
B. L. Longfellow
H. BE. Morris
Om Robert Collins
John Schaible
Adrian
Cd. Winkbeiner
BH. W. Gilliard
Kenneth Spencer
O. G. Wheeler
Davey Sturtevant
Britton
Howard. DePuy
H. B. Taylor
Margaret Whitmoyer
Ralph Whitmoyer
Floyd Smith
Viola Severs
Arthur Deigh
Henry Boettger
Fred Hack
Bernard Boettger
Dan Drake
Maynard Guest
Lee Schaffer
Raymond Cullen
Grand Rapids
Fed’ Schaffer
St. Louis
Wayne Smith
Robert Cullen
Ladies’ Aid Society
Federated Church
Frederick Braun
Braun
Mr. Braun
Gertrude Bohnett
George Bray
Lassen
Bridgewater ‘Sales & Service ‘Company
Lassens
Pro Iprietors
Hudson Ad Essex
Vars
Will Ater
J. Arnberg
Zwerdling
Ann Arbor, Michigan
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