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Newspaper
Basin Republican
Location
Basin, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Nov 21, 1913
Page
7
A brief verse celebrating the mother’s role in preparing Thanksgiving dinner. The speaker expresses joy in serving and watching family enjoy the meal, noting the warmth and pleasure of being near loved ones during the feast.
A reflective monologue contrasts modern hardship with Pilgrim gratitude. Prices rise, wages lag, and families cope with fewer comforts while pondering true thanksgiving. The speaker imagines growth through collective self awareness as a future day of gratitude approaches.
In 1777 the Tory preacher Dr Mather Byles was confined to his Boston home. A guard stood watch while he paced outside with a musket, explaining he kept guard and would not leave until the guard fetched cider for Thanksgiving, trading permission to depart for mustering the weapon.
A festive piece invites readers to gather after Thanksgiving for good cheer and relaxed celebration. It humorously notes indulgence, loosening attire, and gratitude, using folksy language to capture holiday warmth and merry neglect of restraint.
The passage notes gratitude for prosperity despite mourners and personal loss. It highlights the fruit of the herd, employment of labor, and reward of industry as sustaining a national standard unequaled in history. The tone emphasizes resilience and collective effort.
EU CENTER Neb Mayor Gallup proclaims November 27 1913 as a day of Thanksgiving praising 827 citizens and Providence while mocking rivals as he celebrates freedom bound by 1776 ideals. Gallup lauds liverymen grocers and brave citizens in a florid address. GGLETON Mich Acting mayor Abraham Watt issues a humorous proclamation praising Skunk creek and civic virtue while urging care on loose sidewalks and a nod to civilization and theology.
A reflective poem urges gratitude and praise on a day of gladness. It contrasts looking upward for divine light with dwelling on personal flaws, encouraging selflessness and joy. The speaker calls for lifting one’s gaze to God’s smile, transforming darkness into day.
A film production near Klausenberg Hungary turned deadly when a boat scene overturned at a river mill. Ten performers were pulled into the water by the wheels while thousands watched. one actress died from injuries and others were saved.
The Poppy serves as a symbol of death across the east and is planted in cemeteries in India. Its ties to grave sites are debated, with speculation about influence from the julee and ancient Egyptian funeral use. Harper's Magazine notes tomb depictions of poppy plants by Heleni.
A method from Camera Craft uses black binding tape wrapped around the bottle with white ink for writing. A thin layer of hot paraffin wax is poured over the tape to make the label waterproof, and the white lettering remains readable in very dim light.
A youth recounts childhood illness and injuries in a short extract from a young autobiography. He notes scarlet fever at age three followed by mumps measles and whooping cough, then a great dane bite his face and a ladder fall that broke his arm. He recalls his mother saying boys have better times now than in her childhood.
Dr J M Buckley, as a young minister, tracked Alfred Tennyson in a London museum for an hour and heard the bard speak. Tennyson reportedly said you hold the children while I get a glass of beer in a quoted line outlined by a Tribune source.
A clergyman asks a sexton how the sermon was received. The sexton candidly replies that he did not like it, citing two points the preacher read it and that it was not worth reading. The exchange highlights blunt feedback in a religious setting.
The paper regrets a headline error that read Mrs. Over look's Big Feet. The intended word was fete a French term pronounced the same, meaning a celebration and considered a tony word. The correction appears in Williamsville (N. D.) item.
A Cincinnati Times-Star note records that The Encyclopedia Americana was registered in the suffragists index expurgatorium under the subject Eve and directs readers to See Adam for further reference.
The phrase laugh and grow fat echoes the ancient idea tied to Democritus the Laughing Philosopher, famed for good humor and a long life, reportedly reaching 109 years in some accounts.
Cleopatra's Needle stands sixty eight feet tall and weighs 140 tons. The Luxor monument in Paris, a single stone structure, rises seventy six feet and weighs 240 tons.
A judge notes a father asking if his son will take a full college course. The reply suggests the son expects to enroll, and the judge cites a liquor bill for a free month exceeding thirty dollars as context. The exchange hints at finances and judgment.
A wary reflection on pursuing another woman's husband proving costly and empty when the desired union proves hollow and unfulfilling, exposing the emptiness of affair driven schemes and hard earned labor misused.
A reflective note celebrates nature's kindness in silencing a man’s own snoring, praising an unseen contrivance that prevents self disturbance and preserves harmony in sleep and home.
A satirical note describes a man who fancies himself a good provider by offering his wife a cheese sandwich at odd hours. The piece critiques performative generosity and hints at underlying marital tensions.
A fragmentary exchange hints at self-doubt about learning and past academic struggles. The speaker recalls limited success as a student while contrasting with a suggestion of future effort. The tone remains reflective and uncertain.
The piece outlines a British government program to create a Ministry of Lands with power to seize waste and neglected lands, reduce rents, and remove barriers for small farmers. It proposes turning game preserves into productive use, drainage and reforestation, and taxing large holders to curb speculative land grabs. The commentary compares this to American land speculation near cities and urges quicker land use to boost prosperity. It also digests social commentary on work, motherhood, and women’s roles from a separate column, plus local notices about Ray Nicholson, Chas E Shaw, and a local notary.
A compact remark on happiness and gender roles questions whether any happy women remain as the author observes a supposed global rebellion among women. The piece suggests married women feel constrained and unmarried women seek change, framing life as a tension between dream and inaction.
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