Why I Emigrated to Western Canada from Iowa
A Western Canada farmer explains why he left the United States for free land. He bought 160 acres at $15 an acre, later amassing about 3000 acres debt free. He says land paid for itself within three harvests, with wheat yields and high value, and contrasts life here with Iowa, where 160 acres cost $16,000.
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New Year Resolve to Do Better in Life and Love
Barbara Lee urges readers to welcome the new year with kindness to children, honesty, and self-improvement. Emphasizes guarding speech, restoring what is owed, pursuing personal growth, and opening the heart to love and hope in the coming year.
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Barbara Lee
Johnny Graves Finds Hope in a New Year’s Return Home
After pardon, convinct Graves plans to seek forgiveness by returning to Mapleton to care for his mother. A night of crime ends with a church row and a dying mother urging him to reform, inspiring him to abandon theft and start anew in his hometown.
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Exhibition of the only three legged chicken arouses talk
A crowd gathers as a man claims to reveal the only three legged chicken. The scene includes reactions about wisdom and a note of a remedy and cough drops as a humorous aside.
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