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Newspaper
Aberdeen Herald
Location
Aberdeen, Washington, United States of America
Date
Nov 25, 1909
Page
2
Poem recounts family plans for Thanksgiving with baked goods and homecoming of children. Includes a second piece “Thanksgiving Conundrums” listing playful turkey themed riddles. Features names Minna Irving and Theodosia Garrison as poets.
On the Mexican border natives honor a Thanksgiving tradition using primitive methods. Beans and corn are ground into meat to make bread and frijoles for the holiday meal, reflecting age old agricultural practices along the southern border.
A humorous verse contrasts turkeys with people on Thanksgiving Day noting both are stuffed. The rhyme plays on roasting, stew, collars and cuffs to lampoon the holiday and its traditions.
A grandmother recalls making plum pudding that delighted Abe Lincoln as a boy, reflecting on poverty and gratitude. The recipe mixes bread, suet, molasses, raisins, and spices boiled for hours, served with foaming butter sauce.
A nervous narrator, Mrs Harris, frets over a Thanksgiving shopping list for a large in law gathering. She bargains for turkey, geese, squab, giblets, and salt pork while humorously recounting family dynamics and misremembered details at the Chicago News butcher counter.
A playful poem warns a handsome pumpkin will become the star of a Thanksgiving pie. The speaker praises the pumpkin’s mellow cheek and rounded form while foretelling its fate in dessert, with humorous vanity and seasonal imagery.
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