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Newspaper
The Potter Review
Location
Potter, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1920
Page
7
Harris braves a night run to fetch Dr Blain for his gravely ill wife Mary in a sod house on the prairie. The doctor, recovering, speaks of salvage from the wreck while Mary finds light in the dawn and they name their newborn Allan.
John Harris, a Canadian schoolteacher, decides to leave his barren post and become a homesteader in Manitoba. He marries Mary who vows to accompany him. Alec McCrae aids the couple as they journey across the prairie to establish a homestead, build a shack, and plant a crop.
A reminiscence on thimbles once decorated with stones, not used for work but for ornament. The piece recalls how, in past fashions, ladies gave time to fine needlework while thimbles and fans complemented their delicate materials and social rituals.
Mary Harris toils in the prairie kitchen as Manitoba's settlers push westward. Her daughter Beulah, reflecting her mother's strength, joins with John Harris and son Allan and the hired hand Jim as a meal prepares and the family awaits those returning from the fields amid a transformed landscape of farms, smoke, and new towns.
In a Saskatchewan summer supper scene Harris and family endure work and debate over town errands as the patriarch recalls past ideals. The hired man Jim, with a quiet smile, helps with chores while Beulah chafes at endless toil. Harris’s long pursuit of wealth shifts from communal pioneer spirit to solitary Mammonism, unseen by him as the day ends with cows to milk.
John Harris leaves a Canadian town to homestead in the prairie with his wife Mary. They marry, gain McCrae as a helper, and choose a farm. Mary endures loneliness as Harris works the land, Mary becomes a mother to Allan after returning with the first crop.
The London Opinion reports on Masherton recalling the summer flirtation with a girl who later married. The piece centers on the realized seriousness of the romantic pursuit and its outcome for Masherton.
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