FIELD FORT AND FLEET Bombardment Tales From Civil War Seas
A Detroit newspaper piece recounts dramatic naval bombardments across Civil War theaters. It notes varied outcomes from shell bursts and near misses to catastrophic hits, highlighting Fort Fisher, Fort Sumter, Fort Henry and Mobile Bay actions. It emphasizes the unpredictability of warships, gunboats, and crews under fire with vivid anecdotes of shots, damage, and survival.
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Detroit
Rosecrans
Stone River
Hazen
Albemarle Sound
Albemarle
Fort Fisher
Monitor
Fort Sumter
Rogers
Cattskill
Weehawken
Fort Moultrie
Leutenant
Fort Henry
Tilghman
Essex
The Cider Mill in New England Dreamscape
A lyrical piece invites readers into a sunlit New England valley with blue skies, lakes, and the cider mill. It blends nature imagery with a memory of boyhood cider drawing and a vivid, rustic scene of harvest and streams. An Aunt Grievous Thanksgiving monologue contrasts festive family scenes with charity demands, ending with a stubborn resolve to celebrate the day.
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Charles Gates
Harper's
New England
Nathaniel's Gander and the Cape Cod Summer Tale
A Cape Cod summer tale from Hezekiah Butterworth recounts a girl’s comic fear of a gander at Aunt Targood’s. The bird seizes her bundles, distributes caramels to geese, and guards the yard until the girl learns the gander once belonged to her son Nathaniel who sailed on a coaster. The mother cherishes the bird, believing it holds a memory of Nathaniel and his home.
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Hezekiah Butterworth
St. Nicholas
Nouse
Cape
Aunt Targood
Martha’s Vineyard
Bowery
Great Meadow Farmyar
Hester
Wildle
Turgeon
Gander
Key
Mr. Honney
Father Bonney
Ben
Canada
Nathaniel
Aaron
Sin
Mince-Meat in New Yorks Pack and Hair as Fashion
An old New England mince meat jar idea is proposed for a New York establishment with odd ingredients listed. The piece shifts to descriptions of Indian and Japanese hair customs, noting how a woman’s age and marital status may be inferred from hair arrangements, including various styles and accessories.
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New
Hawkeye Burdette
The Great Pumpkin Pie Debate Across America
A nostalgic tirade denounces modern pumpkin pies as artificial compared with mothers and grandmothers. It contrasts crust thickness and flavor, cites high store profits from small slices, and urges legislative protection to preserve the traditional home made pie as a national treasure.
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Pumpkin Pie
Mother’s
The Origin of Thanksgiving Through the Centuries
The holiday began with Puritan colonists led by Governor Bradford in Plymouth. After a rough start, harvests and prayers shaped Thanksgiving into a yearly observance. From Washington to Lincoln to modern presidents, national proclamations aligned the day with the president's choice, the last Thursday in November becoming common.
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Bradford
Plymouth Bay
New England
Congress
Washington
Western Reserve
Mississippi
Lincoln
Why Wyoming is Thankful
In view of Thanksgiving we note Wyoming has one thing to be thankful for the lack of an election this year. If eastern exchanges speak truth it was a grievous infliction upon the people regardless of party or politics.
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Missionary Society
Grievous
Ender
Nathaniel
Wyoming
Laramie
Cozur de Lion
Lionel
Duke of Clarence
Edward
Violants
Gelasius II
Milan
Petrarca
Herr Hellmesberger
Texas
George C. Miln
Fred Gebhardt
Langtry
Chicago
General Sherman
Juh
Ohio
Foster
Alfonso
Paris
Place Vendome
Rue de Bungstarter
Grandmother's Kitchen: Knickerbocker Hearth and Home
A vivid slice of 19th century Knickerbocker life describes grand fireplace kitchens in New York and Pennsylvania homes. It details cellars stocked with pork, cheese, and cider, old utensils, windlasses for roasting, and communal feasts where neighbors join the cook in merriment and music.
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Leslie
Janet E
Runtz Rees
Knickerbockers
New York
Pennsylvania
New England
Old Time Banquet Declares Lavish Feasts From Past to Present
A comparison of medieval and early modern banquets traces opulent tables from Vitellius and Lucullus to modern grand dinners. It notes thousand-dollar plates, elaborate decorations, and the medieval parade of gifts, with a 1630 cookery tale describing a ship and castle pie with live frogs and birds, ending in restraint from the era’s excess.
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Harper's Bazar
Vitellius
Lucullus
Apollo
Apicius
M. Ude
Robert May
Montague
Lumley
Dorner
Kenelm_ Digby
Good Housekeeping
England
Evening Revels and Rooftop Courtship Echoes
The passage recalls a festive gathering where joyous voices filled the rafters as courtship and wooing unfolded in the shifting firelight. As night ended, Learty’s wishes spurred the revelers to depart, marking the close of the evening’s lively social scene.
Thanksgiving Folly and Farce From a Hapless Chronicle
A humorous satirical holiday piece catalogs a cascade of absurd misfortunes and boasts across nations. It mockingly thanks a list of figures and events from music to theater, politics to crime, noting failures, absurdities, and incongruous headlines while offering a wry national reflection on gratitude.
A Royal Thanksgiving Reflects King George IIIs Recovery
A 1789 English Thanksgiving celebrated King George III’s restoration of reason with a solemn service at St Paul’s, London lights illuminating the city, and a Kew Palace display. Princess Amelia led the king to a window where a poetic address from Queen Charlotte shone in lights, celebrating his recovery and the nation’s praise.
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England
George III
St. Paul's Cathedral
London
Kew Palace
Amelia
Charlotte
Papa
Britannia
Thanksgiving Prose Mix in Old Pages and Punchlines
A collage of anecdotes and quips on Thanksgiving culture, leisure, and everyday life. It blends verses on abundance and memory with humor about beards, eye glass deception, and a rustic tale of a stove mishap that burns $11,000, reflecting early 20th century newspaper miscellany.
Cobble Gobble Bah Autumn Song in Louisville Paper
A lyrical fragment from the Louisville Courier Journal evokes autumnal imagery. It chain-raps wind leaves, a bee returning to withered blooms, a smoky clock tower, a grocer’s fruit rat, a car roue’s tail, and Matilda calling for a fire blower as the season shifts toward Thanksgiving and wistful days.
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Louisville Courier-Journal
Matilda
Those Inventors and the Cannon Threat
A Burlington Hawkeye editorial mocks nonmilitary inventors who design long range cannons. It notes most inventors are unsoldierly and driven by protecting the maker during practical tests, envisioning distant hills and indiscriminate hail of iron against opposing forces. The piece questions the motives and safety concerns of these gun designers.
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L Burlington Hawkeye
Weathered Arizona Tale and a Tenderfoot Misread
A tenderfoot in an arid Arizona district tries to predict rain from the sky. An honest miner, with ten years’ experience, doubts rain will come, saying it has never rained in that area. The tenderfoot leaves convinced it will stay dry.
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Tenderfoot
Arizona
Harvest Thanksgiving and Autumn Festival Reflections
A vintage Sunday Magazine piece contrasts Harvest Thanksgiving poetry by Whittier with an anecdote about a persistent solicitor and a blunt Austin merchant. It blends rural elegy with market scene humor and a brief moral about honesty and opportunity in a historical setting.
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Memphis
Benton
Turkey Bend
Malvern Hill
Malvern Farm
Malvern House
Richmond
Magruder
James River
McClellan
Ringdove
Incha River
Florida
Roebuck
Bosse
Ouachita
Trinity
Tius
Giuen
Ashell
Fort Morgan
Mobile
Galena
Cape Cod
Him
Jobo
Joan
Ile
Bird
Japan
Peck
Long Island
Ords
Egez-Nogg
Elder
Atlanta Constitution
Leisura
Jean Ingelow
Wise Old Doc
Grandpa
Evelyne
Cincinnati
Civing
Harriet McEwen Kimball
Paradise
Erie
Penn
Mill Creek
Teu
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sunday Magazine
Husbandman
John G. Whittier
Ruth
Wright
Austin
Lave
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