Grit (newspaper) | Wiki & Review | Everipedia The Grit office as it looked in the 1890s: Publisher Dietrick Lamade is fifth from right, with the mustache. Grit displayed news and features aimed at rural America, and climbed to a weekly circulation of 100,000 by 1900, following an editorial policy outlined by Lamade during a banquet for Grit's employees: "Always keep Grit from being pessimistic. Avoid printing those things which distort the minds of readers or make them feel at odds with the world. Avoid showing the wrong side of things, or making people feel discontented. Do nothing that will encourage fear, worry, or temptation... Wherever possible, suggest peace and good will toward men. Give our readers courage and strength for their daily tasks. Put happy thoughts, cheer, and contentment into their hearts."
72 years on earth now. All my life all my hunting buddies always called it venison. I would not have any disputed if someone wanted to call it deer meat because it is, deer meat by any other name is still deer meat.
That is one fine looking farm for the period. I bet the whole thing took grit and you can see the pride.
I wonder where the windmill came from. How would the farmers even know about them? It certainly was not "from scratch."
In our area the moose crossbred with the elk. We called them melks I remember seeing it around my Virginia relatives' houses when I was 8 or 9. I've never read it. I think John Wayne liked it. He said he wanted someone with true Grit. Or was that the female lead in that movie? I forget.
Where & when was this? We moved to Fairfax County in the early 60s. I delivered papers for a while and never even heard of this publication. Regarding melk: I had never heard of such a thing. Link
It was either at my father's relatives on the eastern shore of Virginia or my mother's side in North Carolina. I forget which.