Thanksgiving Proclamation by Massachusetts Governor Draper
Governor Eben S. Draper proclaims a Massachusetts Thanksgiving Day legal holiday. He invokes 300 years of observance, calls for worship and gratitude, and notes the nation's unrest yet faith in Massachusetts rights and opportunities. Given in the Council chamber on November 2, 1910.
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Eben S. Draper
Massachusetts
Commonwealth
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Council Chamber
United States of America
The First Thanksgiving for the Plymouth Colony
A compact history of the Mayflower voyage to New England in 1620 and the first Thanksgiving. It details the Pilgrims hardships, the 1621 harvest, Bradford's gratitude proclamation, the thanksgiving feast with turkey and venison, and the ceremonial events led by Elder Brewster and Captain Miles Standish.
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Stern Little Plymouth Ecolony
Holland
America
New England
Leno
John Smith
Plymouth
North Pole
Little Colony
England
Bradford
Europe
Elder Brewster
Governor Bradford
Mas- Basoi
Miles Standish
Thanksgiving Turkey Toast From a Poetic Muse
A lyrical verse celebrates Thanksgiving as the best day of the year and extols the turkey as the king of poultry. It recalls Pilgrims giving thanks and imagines a nation where every home has a turkey on the holiday table. The piece blends nature imagery with patriotic sentiment and culinary delight.
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Liberty
Salvation Army Prepares 9000 Thanksgiving Dinners in Boston
Salvation Army at the People's Palace in Boston plans to serve about 5000 people with traditional Thanksgiving meals. Last night hundreds of baskets with full chicken dinners were distributed to widows the sick and others cared for by the charity. An army of cooks is preparing the feast and waiters will reset tables for multiple dining rounds starting at 11 am and continuing through the day ending about 8 pm.
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People’s Palace
Salvation Army
Boston
Ner
Thanksgiving origins and poetry from early American writings
A concise compendium recalls Governor Bradford’s 1623 proclamation and Washington's 1795 first Thanksgiving, with poems and quotes from Luther, Carleton, MacDonald, Spurgeon, Beecher, Dunbar, and Dowd. It frames the holiday’s evolution from colonial feast to national celebration and offers festive reflections on gratitude.
Thanksgiving Dinner Carving and Turkey Tales
A nostalgic Thanksgiving scene unfolds with a family gathered around a roasted turkey. The narrator recalls parents at the ends and children in between while carving reveals humor and a school lesson reversed Greece with Turkey. The savor of every part inspires family ritual and humorous impressions.
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Father
Mother
Greece
Turkey
Million fed as Army plans grand city dinner
The article describes a large charity dinner at the Palace with tickets required for entry and for receiving candy orange and banana. Colonel Adam Gifford leads the New England team arranging post assignments to serve a vast throng, aided by baskets and careful timing, as readers anticipate next Sunday's cooking page with menu and party table decorations.
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Next Sunday’s Post
Thanksgiving Day Parish Activities Across Boston and Nearby
Thanksgiving schedule lists solemn masses at St Marys Endicott Street St Leonard Roxbury and St Patricks Society. Dignitaries speak at Mass and union services at Adath Israel Second Church Tremont Temple and Maverick Street. Dinners at Salvation Army Soldiers Home and New England Home for Little Wanderers.
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St. Mary’s Church
Endicott Street
North End
St. Leonard of Port Maurice
St. Patrick’s
Ninth Regiment
Congregation Adath
Israel
Tremont Temple
New England
Little Wanderers
West
Newton Street
Church of the Advent
Salvation Army
People's
Maverick Street
Arlington Street
Boston City
Soldiers’ Home
Chelsea
Wheelock Hall
Dorchester
Italian Society
Cross Street
Christian Workers and Palace
Church
East Boston
Shawmut Avenue
Carmelite Convent
Mt. Pleasant Avenue
Temple
Mishkan Tefila
Foss
Boston Betel Society
Children of Immaculate Conception
Boston
Verdi Hall
Brighton
Knights of St. John the Baptist
Rival Connecticut Rhode Island Turkeys Headed to White House Feast
A Connecticut farmer James E Lord sends the famed giant 44 pound turkey named King George to Washington and a Westerly Rhode Island bird from Horace Vose arrives as rival states claim honors for the White House feast. Boston consumption totals estimate 1 184 500 pounds of turkey with vast quantities of cranberry sauce pies butter and nuts and a total cost around 1 280 700 dollars.
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White House
James E. Lord
Connecticut
New England
Horace Vose
Westerly
R. I
Rhode Island
Lord's Hill
Conn
George
Lord
Vose
Greater
Boston
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Beacon Hill
Biddeford
South Station
East Boston
United States
Birmingham
Somerville
Chestnut Hill
Charlestown Navy Yard
Bunker Hill Monument
Christian Science Church
Ames
City Hall
Thanksgiving Monologue from a Puck Cartoon
A humorous Thanksgiving strip captures a family bantering over food. Charles C. Jones credits the scene in Puck with characters pleading for drumsticks stuffing slaw jam and pie while a playful chaos erupts around the gravy boat and dinner table.
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Jim
Marie
Originator of Biplane Dead
Chicago reports Octave Chanute, famed as father of the aeroplane, died at home after weeks of illness. The civil engineer and pioneer of heavier-than-air craft helped develop the Chanute glider, a biplane precursor, and inspired later Wright brothers designs. Chanute was born February 18, 1832 in Paris and immigrated to America in 1838.
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Chicago
Octave Chanute
Chanute
Wrights
Paris
America
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