Thanksgiving Song Ends The Year In Hopeful Cheer
Fragmentary verses express gratitude for friends and love and the idea of a song of cheer. The readable lines hint at a celebration of friendship and a hopeful spirit for the season.
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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Dec 11, 1902
Page
9
When a Young Author Returns to the Tall Grass
A woman recalls a newborn dream of writing for a juvenile magazine after a first story is accepted late by The Juvenile Company. Decades pass with family life and delayed publication, until a daughter delivers news of renewed success and a new check rekindling the mother’s youthful hope.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tom
Joe
Matthewson
Advantages of Cooking Classes in Public Schools Rockford talk promotes student lunches
Miss Sarah Hostetter outlines a public school cooking program in Rockford Illinois detailing a ten cent lunch with soup fruit and dessert. Students prepare and serve weekly with meals reflecting nutrition and economy while stressing student responsibility and domestic education.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rockford
Illinois
Sarah Hostetter
Thanksgiving Kindness Brightens Parker Family Hard Times
Robin Parker helps his sick father and tight budget family as a chance encounter with Peter Dickson brings warmth and a gift filled Thanksgiving, ending with a generous hamlet act. Peter shares mittens and a comforter, then disappears leaving Robin a found dollar and a hopeful future.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
King’s
New Saié
Robin
Peter
Peter Dickson
H. J. Moorhouse
Novel Fair Plans and Craft Demonstrations For Charity
A proposal outlines a multi booth charity fair with rug making, photography demos, loom and lace classes, braiding, pyrography, home recipes, dressmaking patterns, and plant care guidance. An admission fee would ensure revenue from visitors. Also noted are fur values and a violent scaffold incident in Vienna highlighting historical dangers.
Notorious Fraudster built charities after crime
A man described as a cripple with early interest in afflicted youths devised a vast fraud at age 23 that over fifteen years stole from the wealthy. He used proceeds to fund a cripples' home in Rome and aid children's hospitals and waifs’ homes in Italian cities. He was imprisoned for life, later pardoned after fifteen years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rome
Relic Weston tavern burned. Washington and Adams linked
A Weston Massachusetts fire destroyed the John Flagg tavern an antebellum site visited by President Washington in 1789 and later by President Adams in 1798. The blaze also claimed the old colonial flag of thirteen stars that once flew over the tavern.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Weston
Mass
John Flagg
Washington
Cambridge
Boston
John Adams
Robbed Senator Gorman Closes Laurel Mansion
Maryland Senator Gorman will not stay in Washington this winter after a break in at his Laurel home. About six servants conspired to steal cash silverware and bedding to furnish a fellow worker's house. A servant confessed and the senator chose not to press charges, moving to an apartment after the theft.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Senator Gorman
Maryland
Washington
Laurel
Discarded War Material On Sale By Italian Government
The Italian government lists vast discarded war material offered to the general market. Included are 600,000 rifles adopted in 1887 with 48,000,000 cartridges, 1,200 nine pounders and 500 seven pounder guns with 200,000 shells, and 170 seven pound mountain guns with 17,000 shells.
Do Fishes Hear and How Scientists Think They Listen
The text questions whether fishes hear and whether anyone has seen their ears. It notes scientists list about 100 noisy fish species and suggests sounds serve a purpose. It mentions drur drums puffer croaks and a fish’s inner voice when left to die, proposing teeth as a hearing mechanism.
Fierce Ants in Australia Claim a Man's Life
James Stanley was pinned by a falling tree in northern Queensland. Bees and large green ants swarmed him after the rescue, and he died within minutes at the nearest hospital.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Australia
James Stanley
Queensland
Carest Hospital
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Robin Parker
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Siberia
Alaska
Kamchatka
Widdin
Vienna
Zeco Kame
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