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r es Interestingly From on . ard going for Uhrlstmas visit"lJ
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Norway.
Editor Oce11na Heral<i
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f DEAtt Sm:-l believe there are some
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your subrcribers, who are my
friends who have been lookinl!' for a
few lines from me agd the fa1· norlh
t,hroµgh your paper. Joy and sorrow
at the Rame time is now my share, joy
b ecause I am so glad .I am here in m•,
moth, r country to spend the rest ~f
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of these were bounft for ~or·
way and for every hundred coming
l1ere, the1·e
1·s abl' ut one pe1·s<,n
de· e,· west
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parting for America abuut this time. tanicnl
1 am gaining in health and am soon
going to work, n<,L hard but e11.sy. I
have bought about live acres of land.
and am going to build a cor,y litt le ·den; a
house to have it ready for Mrs. Fiel(t
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in th<:: spring.
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intend to plant some small an d
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lar!("e fruit and combine tl1is wi t ll fist;•
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bb't ·
ing and hunting and rai s1ug r a I
and cliickens.
The location is a beauty, alJout seY·
en miles 1'rom here and close to a nice
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little town and about tiftee n minutes 1 t h of
my• •lifo
-.v11ere I can regain my healt,h,
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·801 1 o v 1Jecause 1 cannot be with mv
dearest 011 ea1·th, 1·11 tl1e borne, t'·';..
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fruit of rn.v labors in America, but I
feel that l have done w!Jata man like
myself posit,ively should do and I am
glad now to rn_y to you if I can haw-:
bread and butter and a little meat
e
once a week I will be satistied. M v
walk from the sea .
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Solpryd , Storhaug, f:tavan g-er , .,_, or•
the hard wort, and she will be glad t t.
way.
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join me here in U1e spring. We leav€.
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(llll' monument behind us ·in Amerh;a
r' " •, irsTAND.squarely upon my record," said
may it e Yer be a bJessirw
· the political candidate. "Well," yelled
Norway is a freer "~rnntry th au the little man at the rear end of the hall,
America. In Am eri ca a person is the
"you can hardly be blamed fo r wantin' to
slave to the almighty dollar. 'l'he re keep the blamed thing from bobbin' up."
a person loses his s t rength a nd se nseF< - Chicago Rec;ord-Herald.
nted in
and knows no t a eno,ugh to qui t rli o"A·MER+cuR !" grandiloqu ently,sdreech•
~ ging when tifty or sixty years old bt~t ed the youthful graduate in the midst
thinks be must hnve as many doll a r1of his oration on "Our Country and I ts
as his neighbors and a few better. an c'
Destinies,'' the wh ile his gestures were
before he can realize lie has ennugll
very like those of an inebriated windto Jea\·e off .h e lies with his nose in the
mill. "A-mer-i-cur, fou nded on the so id
air and a poor as a church rat,.
rock of the Constitution, that mighty
The air and climate here in Norway
document of which shall never pass away
makes a rerson, l.e1lthy, wealthy and . one tot or jittle-1 mean, one jit or tottle'Z wise. A person feels wealthy here
er-h'm ! one tit or jottle-that is, as I was
~; when he is in good health and can Ji ve
about to say, never shall pass one jol or
day by day. Bence he is.wise.
little--er-r-lol or jottle- h'm ! h'm !1
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Norway is a freer country because
j il or Jottle-ar-r-r-r !- till or jittle-lol,
[e here are not so many devils, Lazaru::; , tol-lil, jil-tat, tot, t ut-Iii, !al, lo!, Jul.
andrascalsto encounter. Mostpeople
Oh, dear me! Water! water!" "Hodi
are as sound in head and body as the µ: du rn !" chuckled conscienceless old Uncle
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ai1· is pure, no n:ilroad wrecks, no E Timrod Tarpy to himself. "T his is the
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murders, no robberies, and hardly a n y Ill fi rst t ime in a good while that I have
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windlers or drunks. To prove t,his i r really enjoyed one of these 'ere combave but to refer to this city- S t n va n - t mencements !"-Puck.
er- which with 3ii,000 inhabitant," ·
~ · ·· - .. ~ MH•h v I Rln P B eecl1
r. has been half a dozen policemen .
,, 1 l\IRs. I-loMER: "-Have you nottcect
how
weary
and worried lUrs. Goodwin erns.
!
Here are the largest hermatic ca r:•
ninl,{factories in the world and t he looks of late?" :i\Irs. Neighbor : "Yes, i) A
most factories ' of • i<inds in Norwa ,·
poo r th ing; she has quit doing her own 1·
mThe winter is mild along the coa~~ work a nd is trying to keep a hired girl."- dy soil
here, and we ~1ardly need mittens.
Chicago Dai ly News.
The thermometer st:mds mostly abon t
i 30 degrees an::t seldom colder than 20
degrees above zero.
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all:e good 1nc1ne,v. B11t t
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prioclpa.l streets fur
men must ma.ke great fort
t
many hours on the •last night of the
producer at, one enrJ and · th
*Oas a nea old year and make the ears or tile peoth
In t h e Pe
J tingle with the hideous noises Cal'f
at e other
suffer and i;
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"Catalpa I made l.Jy tish1horn<i, horse fiddles, cow
, I ornra trnit growers
,vest bells and any other thing that will vi- same unen\'iable conditi
dw~ brate harshly upon the
Confet-ti Michigan potato growers
"Catalpa '-j is thrown upou the heads and shonl- 'lari,rn protits in the 1J•.1sine
Hard] de rs of tll'e promenade crowds . A t'ew ping- l'rnit to eastern mark
unhappy grower doesn't
·=>catalpa
wear mas ks and the whole thin g par- them nowadays. R. D. S
Near tai<es of the spirit of a carnival. Fun .,
kt•pt tab
on 0 4
soil is let loose and hilarity reigns supreme coacramentu
r t'rnit st.ii'pp"d
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- ie mi Will er wea ier ie,re a mrts Past, in the summer· of 1<.J
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:Nor · 0 sue an ou oor ce e 0· - ation or th e found a net loss to the
''Catalpa ] birt,h of a new vear .
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$ 1:l:i,O:i,i, at'ter the exprn-;
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N or b t
a· R~t's\n ~~ d her r!a_,ti~h- turns were compared.
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-x •cata 1pa
·e r " "' · .Y, F1 ie Y are dv,s1 mg
Here is one item. in the ic
,vest relatives in San
rancisco an e njoy - , which shows \1uw the fruit
·*Ceanothu iug tile P .tcitic breezes. They stroll made to pay all the t.rnt'lic
In t h out to ,Jefferson Square, a pretty four 1Tlie Armour Refri!rn. l",'l<>i
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«·ceanothu ,block park on
olden
ate .avenue I cl1arges $12-'i for puLLi11g ic
A ba r that always looks. g-reen and inviting car at certain points on tl1
•·ced ar .
e ven on aJ;!loomy day. To wall< on tile · journey. Ttle actual cos
Celastrus ~-reen la.wn and sit in the warmtsun in this is only $JO :;o; t,l,e diffet
On t h ( .la1'11irtry, witl1 dogs and babies playir,g t.o swell the already plPt hor
«·Celastru s by tile d11zen around you, is a, privileg·e of tile car company: nnd th
On th( they cli i;I nut 113\'c a cliance to enjoy in and commmer pay tile bills,
*Celtis oc, Mi c liig-an.
an uecasional grnmhle now
North
Jolrn Alex;inder Dowie, tlie heav.1·
TI011T . K .Jo
orcl »e t, !-\'"\11,\(' !l'.HIU WIW P''~(·~ ,P, ~l(j ,_1/1_vl1t San FranciRco, .Ian. 11. rnoi'i.
-:+Celtis oc i'5 ecnnd on the sboi'b uf Lake )i1tJhiga,1\ 1-1-. -----t -th
On t h is i n terestcrl in a law snit in the 1 "CHILDREN," said e aS onis
th
-::• cephala n courts or this city. Flu,ril Crnig, a I opeidmig}he door of e roo;
1s1
South ivealtiif insurance man here ll /lS
1~, wh_at ari yo?t'.,
wes bruu i:rht suit t o reco ve r ah•.,ut $17-'>0 1 ea rtiy n0tse a out.
st
Cercidip Llrnt he all eges !Je ac~vanccd to Do"·lt:
rike," ~nswer;d th Tommy.,,
st
East / years ago wh (:: ll t ile · iatl.er :nade a l'unker, an Dicks e packer.
nd
<+ cercis ca tile attemp t to start a mi~sirm lw re. have you got Johnny bou
nd
\Vith Dowie does ii 't d.eny bon<,wi ng- lhe a
tied to a chair ?" "Oh,
·=❖ cercis c I muney but Il e says i t wa,; a debt of he's th e consumer."-Chicago
With love lhat Il e expect ed " Bruther"
IT is told of an American
Craig ne ver to collect on tl1i s sid e of who bought a castle on the
the rirnr Stvx. 'l'h e ma tter liasn't one cold day his daughter
bee n settled ye t .
wa rmin g his hands at a fi re w
Nortb.
I want to say a fe w word ;; in com· kindled in suit of plate armor.
Ch am::ed : 111endation or the C!1ri Rtma,; edition wha t have you been doing?"
1 or the t:ih elb,Y H e rald . l t was the that patented that stove/ repli
In t h l peer of any sr1iall pape r th i,t I ha \"e of th e castle, "must have been
· · cl t'o1· a lonu· tim e 'l'l1·'t Ii · t
C h erry,
examine
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rs I've made th e old thing heat u
Ch erry.
oag-,i ot' greetings from t h e business T it-Bits.
Chestnu ;nen or Shelb_y was inte restin g rea d- - - - - - - - -~
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in!leven for a st ran!("er. The potat,,
l\lRs. R uRALLES: "Yourplac,
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h eS n u article deserves spec ial mention a lso. I wonde r you don't keep fow
Chinqu a :, It covered tile ground compleLely.
nice to have fr esh eggs every
If it wa'! nut for the· cos t of trans - Clyde: "But fowls are sucl
poct.ation the potato growers ot' Oce- \ Vhy couldn't we keep an 11
~ aoa cuuuty would never need t i? hunt stead ?"-Brooklyn Life.
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Oceana County Migrant Labor History Collection
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Collection contains images and documents digitized and collected through the project "Growing Community: A Century of Migration in Oceana County." This project was a collaboration between El Centro Hispano de Oceana, the Oceana County Historical and Genealogical Society, and Grand Valley State University funded by a Common Heritage grant from the United States National Endowment for the Humanities. The materials in this collection document the history of communities in Hart, Shelby, and Walkerville and explore themes of migration, labor, religion, family, belonging, national and cultural identities, regional, national, and international connections, and citizenship.
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Oceana County (Mich.)
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Grand Valley State University. Kutsche Office of Local History
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2016
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Oceana County (Mich.)
Hart (Mich.)
Shelby (Mich.)
Farms
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Field, S. O.
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1905
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"Land of the Vikings"
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Letter from S.O. Field published in the local Shelby, Michigan paper describing why he decided to leave Michigan and move back to Norway, the country of his birth.
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Shelby (Mich.)
Farms
Farmers
Migrant agricultural laborers
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moved the barn up to within eight
rods of the house, put new sills under
the stone foundations all around it.
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THRIFTY NORWEGIAN'S WAY. Have a~so put up a first-class windmill
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with water for house and barn. Built
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FIFTH PRIZE ESSAY.
a wagon and carriag,e house on the
In the spring of '93 I bought a 40 a
end of barn.
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arm for $2000. I was then 43 yrs old
I now have five head of cattle, tw·o
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nd worth 1750; mY estate is now wor~h horse!;'. four hogs and a flocl{ of fine / \ . \
fully 6000. Paid 1200 cash and gave a - bran,
chickens.
feed cornmeal
ground feed
suchand
as
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mealI and
mixed
mortgage for 800. Paid the mortgage slightly moistened with swill. When
in the fall of the same year a nd have , clover is green I get some of that and
never had a mortgage on my .::i.rm · when I have sugar beens I chop them
since. Wife and myself started t? work fine and feed them with the grass. Our
with an old horse, a cow, one pig, one money crops are potatoes and fruit. I
hen and a rooster. I · got a 3 mos old never sell straw or ·hay. Have sold
calf from my sister as a birthday pres- some grain, but after this I shall feed
ent and from that one we have raised it to enrich the soil. I am going to
all 'our stock. We did not know much make my· land rich enough so the farm
about farming, but we had made up will be w1orth $10,000 before long. I am
our minds to go slow and take care of going to ha,ve good-si:i:ed straw stacks
everything, whether big or little, and scattered all over mY barnyard and
"·e should sell as much as we could stable my stock and let them have a
without making the soil any poorer. run once in a while in the yard.
Have bought all the manure we could
Flave lost lots of money in clover
get in the town. Found I could not get seed by seeding in between wheat and
along without farm papers, and finally rye. Sometimes I had a good catch,
Use and
pcot hold of 'F & H and it has been a• but as soon as the grain was cut the
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Yery valuable aid.
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weatber generally became dry and the
\Scale 1 to 10.
My farm is a light sandy soil, but by sun burned and killed the seed. I find it
plowing under green clover we can pays better to seed down to clover In
raise a good crop of any kind every wheat or rye stubble, running over with I
year. The so\! never becomes to<;> wet, 1- ·
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and if very dry we keep the cultivator I a straight tooth 'harrow after sowing.
going to hold moisture. Plow In ma- Have pastured the hogs and other stock
nure in fall and winter on level land; In the apple orchard, but shall not
on hil!Y land I turn it under In the fall again, as I do not think it pays to take - - 2 -10- - 6
i;o the ground there will not freeze so anything from the orchard except
much, or wash the manure down. I the fruit and trimmings. I can go anyII
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then plow again in the spring. I drag where and get anything T want on mY ·
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it nearly every week when dry until name. I have often borrowed monEY
planting time. It pays to be sure that but never do so unless I neeil it ba•Jly.
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the soil is finely pulverized. Plant as I keep an accurate s'l!; of bo .)kS includsoon as danger of frosts is over and ing all expenditures, income and the
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the soil is warm for corn and potatoes, profit. I believe it 1,ays w•~ll to expend
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and as soon as the rows can be seen freely for books, papE: rs an;i reports 1 10 5
I go over with a spring tooth drag with so as to keep well posted. Cleared over
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lcyer having the teeth to slant back to $1000 in '97 on that account. I hire a
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a,·oid clinging.
Weed~ are thus _kept boy by the year, and we put in about
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down and moisture retamed. Cultivate 16 a of potatoes, 8 of corn, 3 of beans·
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each week if the soil is dry. I find a and some carrots. Have cleared 400
i;pr\ng tooth cultivator is best by far from 4 a of peaches. Potatoes have
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for this soil.
Cultivate t;hallow and brought 600 in one sea.son.
keep the ground as level as possible.
One of my neighbors beca me dis2
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Have made the most money from po- couraged and rented me his farm.
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tatoes selling them in spring with I borrowed $75 of a neighbor, paid ., , 6 1 7
profit.'
40 on rent and gave a note for 35. This ·
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\'Vhen I bought the farm it was very was just after the two bad yea.rs of '95- , 6 1
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much run down and the only house ,~as 6. This investment ,paid me well. To
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an old Jog hut about 30 yrs old standmg be a successful farmer it takes study
in a little apple orchard of. 2 a. There and planning, and considerable reading,
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was an old barn, but the sills had rot- one that isn't afraid to work or get
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te<l from under it, also a couple of up ea.rlY in the morning. This year I
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sheds. We kept house in the log house have rented my farm to a nice farmer. I
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for 2 yrs. I planted 200 peach trees the Wife and I are going to take a trip to
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tlrst spring. They brought us a good our old home in Norway, and at the
crop of peaches last year. Have plant- same time take In the World's fair at
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ed peach, plum, cherry, pear and apple paris.-[S. o. Field, Oceana Co, Mich.
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trees every spring and have now a fine
orchard. Have .removed, all old fe~ces
"In the Hands of HI• Friend•,; · · "
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nd
along the road leading to tow~ a
The farmer had just arrived in tow~
planted apple trees ·on th e fence lme.
"What" he asked 0 f h.
f · d
s
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In the winter o.f '94-5, bought the , .
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is new oun
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right to get logs for a new house at 75c [ fne nd ' is a bunko steerer anyway? I
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p M ft for hemlock and $2 for pine. have seen a great deal about them in the
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oak and maple. Had it cut into lumber papers."
that winter, prepared it and got it "Of course," replied his friend, "you
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well seasoned for th•e fall when the know what a bunk is?"
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house was built of which an illustra- "Certainly," replied the farmer.
tion is shown herewith. It is the "Well. a hunko steerer is merely a man
finest farmho~se in this neighborhood. who steers another man to his bunk wh~n
Have also built a packing house for he is unable to find it himself H ·
fruit in connection with woodshed. 1 •d
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Th'~ ,,. built so it can be used f01 gm e, a P I osopher and a friend. And
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· now, that question being disposed of I
would like to show you whE:re- yon ;re
sure of getting not Jess than $50 for $1 if
you follow my advice." - Washington
bride on the cheek,- and he WI
ed by all the others. When th
had returned to his seat, the
on his coat and said:
"There, that's all right.
and I courted for seven Jong
married at last in a thunders·
we haven't got but $50 for
tour and to set up in housekei
we propose to Jet folks know ·
earth just the same. Now.
are going to squeeze hands
and the more giggling I hear
1 shall like it!"
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Expensive Econom.•
"l\Iadge. we can't afford n
this spring."
"Well, then, Albert, we
I don't mind wearing my ol
new neighborhood, but I
here and wear them."-1
.Journal.
Rending Between the
l\Iiss Bullion read my han
ing. She's quite an adept
said the Jines Indicated that
about to propose to a girl wi
"Yes. What did you do?"
' \ "I proposed to her."-Clev
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"Deah boy, we've got to d
on the pwinee, don't you kno
"How so, old chap pie?"
"Why, he weally cawn't
'll"e'II carry our devotion so
awound the country wit
shooting at us, don't you kn
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Marriage Licen
Chas. H. Boody, Hart
Mary Evalyn McR:.te, Ha
Will C. C11nningli:1m, We,
Dora Gri1ff. Hut
Robert E'l'1min\!, Benona
Orvilla R. I•'leming, 8helb
Sbe Was -Dos
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Tommy-Let's play gra
Ethel-All right! I'll
"No; it takes a man to
ager."
"Ohl you can be the
want to be what they
donna."-Catholic Stauda
A Gnllty Conscl
'Rastus-·Whad yo' t'in
wif me, doctah?
Doctor-Oh, nothing
pox, I guess.
'Rastus (getting nerv
on mah honah, doctah, I
whar I could ketch dat!Warned.
"I may be a tramp,"
"but under my ragged c
heart that beats."
"Stranger," said the f
the fence yonder is a do"'
Philadelphia North Am~
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Oceana County Migrant Labor History Collection
Creator
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Shell-Weiss, Melanie
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Collection contains images and documents digitized and collected through the project "Growing Community: A Century of Migration in Oceana County." This project was a collaboration between El Centro Hispano de Oceana, the Oceana County Historical and Genealogical Society, and Grand Valley State University funded by a Common Heritage grant from the United States National Endowment for the Humanities. The materials in this collection document the history of communities in Hart, Shelby, and Walkerville and explore themes of migration, labor, religion, family, belonging, national and cultural identities, regional, national, and international connections, and citizenship.
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Oceana County (Mich.)
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Grand Valley State University. Kutsche Office of Local History
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Grand Valley State University Libraries. Special Collections and University Archives
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El Centro Hispano de Oceana; Oceana County Historical and Genealogical Society
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Growing Community (NEH Common Heritage project)
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DC-06
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application/pdf
image/jpeg
audio/mp3
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Text
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Language
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eng
spa
Date
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2016
Subject
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Oceana County (Mich.)
Hart (Mich.)
Shelby (Mich.)
Farms
Farmers
Migrant agricultural laborers
Hispanic Americans
Account books
Diaries
Oral history
Text
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DC-06_Oceana_Peterson_Marge-005
Creator
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Field, S. O.
Date
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1900
Title
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"Success Without a Mortgage: A Thrifty Norwegian's Way," circa 1900
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Article published in the local Shelby newspaper discussing S. O. Field's (great grandfather of Marge Peterson) success at financing their farm. Article accompanies Peterson_Marge-006.jpg
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eng
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Peterson, Marjorie (Field)
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Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Special Collections & University Archives
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Growing Community (NEH Common Heritage Project)
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<a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/">No Copyright - United States</a>
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Text
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Shelby (Mich.)
Farms
Farmers
Migrant agricultural laborers
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more th an ninPteen yearsago.
J'lle ~
popul'ation of Norway is about 2,2~0, 00, )
or a little over that. I visited many
I will now attempt, to write about our
farms in the country, <'Specially around I
journey :n Norway last summer. We
where I was born. I al.so visited my
left our home 011 April 16, and visited
birthplace, ·a log hu~ ,,nd barn on ~b_out
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•
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.
ten acres of land, m a bad cond1t10n .
~nends m Chicago _for two da,•s, leav- ,L It was sold last year, befQre I arrived,
mg there on Apnl 1'.J for Portland,
in order t~ p ay -the expenses of caring
where we got the Allan line steamer for my old father, who died three y~ars
Tunesian for Liverpool, England. We
ago. My mother died when I was eight
had a fine tim,e while crossing the
years old.
ocea·.1, although it was a little cold.
,.€ I cou ld not get in ,the hou ::;e throu_gh
num· After leaving Liverpoo l, where we r the door, so I took out one of ~he wm£ The
th t
, ,vi about
dows tjust
the same
did when
o
e s an, stayed. three days, a four ho u rs , ride
en years
old. as
My I stepmother
not been fu: by tr-a m took us to Hull, where ~e used to pu-t me and mw sister, now livA row tw got a steamer over the North sea,and !n Ing in this town, to work on a field
seed of eacl about. a day and a half we were m ,f picking up stone and we never got
Chns~iansand, the first port of_ Norway .•, enough to eat. One day, while our
used were o Arrlvmg there Sund~y mornmg, . May · stepmother was gone to some n eighso as to mal 6, a crowd of relatives and fri ends bor's, we d ecided to take out one sash,
were on the dock to greet us, and I
as she always locked the door. Then
each, and a: tell you it w as a joyfu l time to see so , we got In throug" the window, and
The secti man~ dear ones whom we had not seen ,€ being very hungry at that time, we got
being dropJ for nm_e teen years. Lots of snow _was something to eat, and got lic ked very
still lymg on the g:round at that time,
badly for the act. This la st time or
about two i and in ;1-orth~rn parts of Norway they f-l course was done not to get any~hlng to
0£ Howe were still usmg sleighs.
eat but to repeat the act I did forty
, t t 1
·well, the first fun we had, after visit- 1
1< yea'rs ago. Now it was not my sister
in O we V~ ing all our relatives, was sailing and ~ but my wife whom I invited to come
gether weig fishing, my greates t sport. In fact · 1n through the window.
_
£our ounce.: we had the best time we ever had in 3' You can believe how sad I felt, when
~ our lives. My wife is very fond of fish, we got . in-s.Jde. . The only two , rooms
of May.
and she got all she wanted. Thouwere stored full · of hand-thrashed _rye
Gardner'! sands of Englishmen and men from straw in bundles, and there was
I
£ ·t
th other nations visit Norway every ! enough. r'oom for a person to wa
our een
sum:mer, mostly on account of the
through from said window to the door
planted.
gireat sport in fishing, and the healthat the other end, which I opene~ _from
Many of ful climate. There ,a re three things the inside . . I thought -I _had a kmd of
bt • d£· which especially strike a person ·when~ right to - do this, • as '. I - was . born there
O aine . I< landing in No rway. First, the rosy r and had so many dear , and sad m em0. W. Mine cheeks of the people; second, the won-" ories. .
was sent fu derful li ght-breathing air that almost ·1 Well we visited some other farms,
makes the lungs of a person swell, and r and fo~nd most ·oE them running alo,ng
H
G. D. OW• heart work easy; third, the birds are :T in the old -fashioned way. In the dairy
Rawson & ' s9 plentiful and so wonderfully tame. r , lin e they cannot · , beat. All the stoc_k
Gardner's yn the winter we find in Norway on wherever ,we: went .was co sleek ,that it
,
most every barn, one or two poles, with J was a delightful sight to see. F~rmers
dale, Mich. one or two big bundles of grain tied to , have " become · more interested m the
Mich.
the upper end, for the birds to h e lp
care for their stock in late years than
0£ the themselves when they can find nothing • some twenty years · a:·o. Farm -hands
.
else to eat. Some places they have · ' are
getting
scarcer every year,
received fr a shelf outside the kitc h e n window - so conse quently they raise more stock,
from J. 1\1 where th_e y throw out ~read crumbs· y as it ' brings in a good price, and the
,r
0 £ d £. and the llke, and many tim , • I sat by ai farmers get along with less h~lp. ?' 0 o
X or
IO tlle op e n ·window, and several of the
many yo1.:ng people are em1gratmg,
Keeper £r birds at a tim e, not over t,Yo feet away
and in many places I found only old
from J. T from where I sat,_ would come _and h e lp ;, peop le to care for the farm, and Jots of
·nT t N
the;11selve s , chattmg-and seemmg to be £1 land lying idle.
'
n es , or so Joyful and thankful. .
. .
Farmers in general had a fair crop
Colorado " \Ve ~tayed five weeks 111 Christian- , ~ last year and realized a good pz:1ce, ,
H 11··ngto sand. This beautiful c ity was burned ,. as all ' kin'ds of eatables are very high.
a!-'
down a few years ago, and it is now
There .are m,a·ny creamerie·s in N?rway
01110.
built up anew. with modern b r ick
riow and farmers se'IJ' their ·milk to
The £o1J buildings. Leavi n g th is place we went U good advan.t : ge there. Cattle are alt .· t' to Christiania, the •capital of Norway, 1 ways kept in the barn in winter and
en vane · arriving th ere on June 16, at two
n ever allowed to run in the srww, f?r
results ob o'clock in the morning. The steamer ,_, ' both old and young stoc_k do- be:ter m
The las· was late and only two of my nJat1ves u this way. No corn is rrused there, but
.
were on -th e dock, prepared to take us ee
other kinds of grain , such as wi:eat,
1ty was q1 to their home. It was so light that . a 11ts barle y rye and peas are plentiful.
varieties you could see to read a newspaper in l't ~tov'er and timothy .are their main hay
the covered carriage.
.
.
ro . Sandvetch and oats together are
coarsenes:- When we came t? our destm'lt1on
~Jsb cut :(or hay, and make a very exa crowd of my relatives was r:-athered
cellent · feed, when . cut green and seato greet us there. Th ey, a lso, had been
ed in ·the right time.
,
• on the doc k for several hours waiting
s O; ta toes are still . raised in the oldfor us, but it was very co ld that night
fas~ioned way, about . thirt? in:hes
and some of them were old, so- they
a art and twelve to fourteen m a r<;>w ,
had to go home. W ell, 1t wa~ a __hearty
)n later :years fruit has been commg
welc9me, never to be forg0tte~
t
the front. I saw many young
O
Christian}a has improved'") d erfully
h ds just planted, such as apples,
in nineteen years, and ma ny places I
or~;: ea.rs and cherries. No peaches
could not recognize myself. It has now
P.
'o'I!.vn there· as far as ,I learned.
about 2!7,000 inhabitan~s. about 150,000
aNre gr _, is a gr~at· fishing and timber
- -- - - - - - - -- - - ~ _ ,
orway
th'
wrong
country but there is some mg
somew'i{ere, as they import . neari:5
·twi ce as much as they export.-[ S. .
' Fi elq_._
THE OLD NORWAY HOIYIE.
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Oceana County Migrant Labor History Collection
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Shell-Weiss, Melanie
Description
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Collection contains images and documents digitized and collected through the project "Growing Community: A Century of Migration in Oceana County." This project was a collaboration between El Centro Hispano de Oceana, the Oceana County Historical and Genealogical Society, and Grand Valley State University funded by a Common Heritage grant from the United States National Endowment for the Humanities. The materials in this collection document the history of communities in Hart, Shelby, and Walkerville and explore themes of migration, labor, religion, family, belonging, national and cultural identities, regional, national, and international connections, and citizenship.
Coverage
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Oceana County (Mich.)
Source
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Grand Valley State University. Kutsche Office of Local History
Publisher
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Grand Valley State University Libraries. Special Collections and University Archives
Contributor
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El Centro Hispano de Oceana; Oceana County Historical and Genealogical Society
Relation
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Growing Community (NEH Common Heritage project)
Identifier
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DC-06
Format
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application/pdf
image/jpeg
audio/mp3
Type
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Text
Image
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Language
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eng
spa
Date
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2016
Subject
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Oceana County (Mich.)
Hart (Mich.)
Shelby (Mich.)
Farms
Farmers
Migrant agricultural laborers
Hispanic Americans
Account books
Diaries
Oral history
Text
A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text.
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DC-06_Oceana_Peterson_Marge-008
Creator
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Field, S. O.
Date
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1901
Title
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"The Old Norway Home"
Description
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Letter written by S. O. Field describing his visit to Norway, where he was born. Published in the local newspaper, Shelby, Michigan.
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eng
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Peterson, Marjorie (Field)
Publisher
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Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Special Collections & University Archives
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Growing Community (NEH Common Heritage Project)
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<a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/">No Copyright - United States</a>
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Text
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application/pdf
Subject
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Shelby (Mich.)
Farms
Farmers
Migrant agricultural laborers
Correspondence