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Scans of Commercial Record newspaper clippings about noteworthy events that happened at local farms or items of interest to farmers.
cr1871091602LakeshoreAgriculturalFair.jpg; Lake Shore Agricultural Society Fair wins for D.W. Wiley, James Norton Dole's seedling, E.L. HOuse
cr1871092302JSOwens.jpg; J.S. Owen Agricultural and Pomological Society fair cr1880052101EdLownHen.jpg; Ed Lown's chicken egg cr1880070201AldenMorrisonStrawberries.jpg; Alden Morrison strawberries cr1882021701ODRobinsonChickenStory.jpg; Capt. O.D. Robinson chicken story cr1891101601HenrySticknetTradeLaketownLandforGR.jpg; Henry Stickney farm cr1891101601WineFromSandHillCherries.jpg cr1892031101PearsonCutsLargePine.jpg; F.M. Pearson cr1892060301GWPierceHensLays146Eggs.jpg; George Washington Pierce of Fishtown hen laid 146 eggs cr1896091801GiantPumpkin.jpg; Capt. R. Ames big pumpkin cr1898020401CowDiesFromEatingNails; A. Mead's cow cr1899102001GrandhavenSkunkFarmProposed.jpg; Spring Lake skunk farm cr1879062701PeterSargentFarm.jpg; sheep and straw beneficial to peach trees Commerical Record June 17 1887 page 1; Fruit Shipper's Guide - A.B. Taylor, D.L. Barber, D.C. Putnam, Frank Kirby, T.W. Leland, D. Updyke, J.G. Lamoreux, H.A. McDonald, cr1891010201HFMarsh-SugarBeetSyrup.jpg; H.F. March growing sugar beets cr1897021901ByronMarkumFarmTally.jpg; The heaping harvest of Byron Markham

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Newspapers1870 Fruit growing, farming, agriculture

Winthers, Sally

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Yoder, Chris

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These Commercial Record newspaper clippings — scanned by Chris Yoder in the 2000s — had been available on the pre-2023 SDHC website. The content has been moved to this online catalog for safekeeping. Publication dates are indicated in the year/month/day/page file name. For example "cr1938102801Description.jpg" = Commercial Record, 1938, October, 28th, page 01

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Ames, Richard H. Sr. Capt. 1837-1910House, Harvey Lathrop 1825-1897Lown, Edward 1850-1942Robinson, Oscar David Capt. 1832-1901Pear, Dr. John Henry 1864-1926Sargent, Peter 1826-1885Taylor, Alfred Blake Sr. 1846-1920Putnam, Dyer Conger Sr. 1843-1894Barber, Daniel L. 1840-1909Kirby, Frank 1861-1896Leland, Thornton W. 1850-1930

"Peaches are rotting in the orchards of Saugatuck last week, and growers thought it better to lose them in the orchard than in Chicago, the prices are so low there." -- Holland City News/The Holland Sentinel, Saturday, Sept. 11, 1880

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