![]() It seems that bicycle enthusiasts favor bike lanes on both sides of the street. John in Highland: “The current controversy over bike lanes on Cleveland Avenue has piqued the interest of many. It was then that the newer immigrants from Germany settled and substituted dairy farming. At a point in time, Wisconsin was the wheat-growing state! Wheat, although easy to grow, exhausted the soil’s fertility. “* Wheaton: Some of Wisconsin’s pioneers were East Coast Yankees, who came to Wisconsin to grow wheat, an easy crop. ![]() “When my parents and my siblings went to visit Grandma and Grandpa, we always took home some loaves of ‘cat bread’ for our own human enjoyment. She soaked the bread in milk and fed it to the barn cats, who loved and appreciated it. “Grandma loved to bake bread, however, and just couldn’t give up that pleasure. Later in life, Grandpa decided that he preferred store-bought white bread - Taystee or its like - over Grandma’s homemade bread. “Grandma baked the best homemade bread - made from scratch, of course. They were married in 1900, when Grandma was 16 and Grandpa was 21. There is so much poverty and suffering all over.’ She died in 1896.”ĭon’t use my name: “My grandparents farmed 80 acres in Wheaton Township*, just outside of Chippewa Falls, Wis. So, we manage to get along by closely observing economy, but we live happily at that. Downings’s hat band is all torn, he is going to purchase new ribbing and have me put it on as he cannot afford to buy a new one just yet. A quote from her letter written to her sister in Wisconsin: ‘I even fixed Lew’s straw hat to make it wear this season turned the band and bleached it in sulphur smoke, so it looked quite new. She earned money ‘turning’ hat bands for the workers who picked fruit. “My Great-Aunt Minnie went to California in 1895 to recover from tuberculosis. ![]() Voila, good as new! This was done on blue chambray work shirts, as well as white dress shirts. One carefully slit the stitches, took out the collar, turned it around, and sewed it back again. Because the shirt collars got so very dirty from sweat and hard work, extra scrubbing on the scrub board had to get all the dirt out thus, the collars wore out faster than the rest of the shirt. I never used the towels had to save them. “I still have a set of embroidered dish towels that I made in the ’50s, with those messages on them, with a guy in a chef’s hat illustrating the messages.
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