Annals of IowaIowa State Historical Department, Division of Historical Museum and Archives, 1908 |
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... soon as we can buy a cow it can run at large in grass two feet high ! We can mow all the hay we want - all free ! All our bread is white , being made from bolted wheat flour . kroner ( fifty - four cents ) for a day's work , time four ...
... soon as we can buy a cow it can run at large in grass two feet high ! We can mow all the hay we want - all free ! All our bread is white , being made from bolted wheat flour . kroner ( fifty - four cents ) for a day's work , time four ...
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... soon became bewildered and lost in a great city . No one of the party could speak a word of English . We knew but one name or place and that was the " Bethel Ship , " an old dismantled vessel fitted up as a Mission chapel for sea- men ...
... soon became bewildered and lost in a great city . No one of the party could speak a word of English . We knew but one name or place and that was the " Bethel Ship , " an old dismantled vessel fitted up as a Mission chapel for sea- men ...
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... soon as I could do a man's full day's work , for six dollars per month . Later learned to run a stationary engine in a sawmill and a flouring- mill . Then I clerked in a store in Altona , Ill . , where I first got my business experience ...
... soon as I could do a man's full day's work , for six dollars per month . Later learned to run a stationary engine in a sawmill and a flouring- mill . Then I clerked in a store in Altona , Ill . , where I first got my business experience ...
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... soon can you pay for it ? " I answered , " My dear sir , I am going into Boone county to a cross - road place called Ridgeport , fifty miles north of Des Moines . It is a new country , with but few settlers , and I do not know what I ...
... soon can you pay for it ? " I answered , " My dear sir , I am going into Boone county to a cross - road place called Ridgeport , fifty miles north of Des Moines . It is a new country , with but few settlers , and I do not know what I ...
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... hoop poles . I sent east for a cooper and soon had a supply of firkins on hand and sent out word about a week before the day I was ready to take in butter . I placed four firkins and a barrel in a row MEMORIES OF A SWEDISH IMMIGRANT . 9.
... hoop poles . I sent east for a cooper and soon had a supply of firkins on hand and sent out word about a week before the day I was ready to take in butter . I placed four firkins and a barrel in a row MEMORIES OF A SWEDISH IMMIGRANT . 9.
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Página 253 - Why has not man a microscopic eye ? For this plain reason, man is not a fly.
Página 141 - In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born, across the sea, With a glory in His bosom that transfigures you and me: As He died to make men holy, let us die to make men free, While God is marching on.
Página 249 - I find this conclusion more impressed upon me, — that the greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something, and tell what it saw in a plain way. Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think, but thousands can think for one who can see. To see clearly, is poetry, prophecy, and religion, — all in one.
Página 224 - Lastly (and which was not least), a great hope and inward zeal they had of laying some good foundation, or at least to make some way thereunto, for the propagating and advancing the gospel of the kingdom of Christ in those remote parts of the world; yea, though they should be but even as stepping-stones unto others for the performing of so great a work.
Página 579 - There is no death! The stars go down To rise upon some fairer shore, And bright in Heaven's jeweled crown They shine for evermore. There is no death!
Página 588 - Oh, why should the spirit of mortal be proud? Like a swift-fleeting meteor, a fast-flying cloud, A flash of the lightning, a break of the wave, Man passes from life to his rest in the grave.
Página 579 - And ever near us, though unseen. The dear immortal spirits tread; For all the boundless universe Is life — there are no dead.
Página 141 - Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord: He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored; He hath loosed the fateful lightning of his terrible swift sword: His truth is marching on.
Página 622 - Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in in his season.
Página 172 - The summit of the Grand Peak, which was entirely bare of vegetation and covered with snow, now appeared at the distance of fifteen or sixteen miles from us, and as high again as what we had ascended...