Thanksgiving Proclamation by Rhode Island Governor Brown
The 1892 Rhode Island proclamation declares Thanksgiving on Thursday November 24 after praising national peace health and prosperity. Governor D Russell Brown urges assembly worship charity and family gatherings and signs with state seal in Providence on November 10 1892 marking the year of Independence.
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D. Russell Brown
United States
Russell Brown
Robe Island
Providence Plantations
Providence
Resseus
President Harrison Proclaims Thanksgiving Day 1892
The proclamation calls on Americans to observe November 26 as a day of thanksgiving and supplication, praising divine blessings, national prosperity, law, education, and philanthropy while noting the year’s trials and guidance.
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Benjamin Harrison
United States
Dreol
Washington
Bersamis Harrison
Aristocratic 1909 Year Marks Births of Notables
A playful note asserts that 1909 produced notable births Lincoln Darwin Tennygon Gladstone and Oliver Wendell Holmes, arguing the year carries an aristocratic aura among calendar years.
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Lincoln
Darwin
Tennygon
Gladstone
Oliver Wendall Holmes
Train wreck at Prospect mine kills miner and injures many
A coal car runaway at East Palestine Ohio derailed on the mine slope and struck miners at the bottom killing Joe Mimmo and injuring numerous others. Other items note new book by Harper Brothers and hair and health advertisements.
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East Palestine
Ohio
Joe Mimmo
Thanksgiving balance sheet of blessings and generous living
A year end reflection urges businessmen and readers to value not dollars alone but the wealth of wisdom, happiness, charity, and lending a helping hand. The piece celebrates memory as a day book of good deeds and urges gratitude and forgiveness as true riches.
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Trim
Mfe
Leroy Armstrong
Turkeys and Tales in the Colonel's Camp
A narrator greets Colonel Grey-Well and Uncle Jasper noting a fine turkey earned by hard work. The exchange hints at a rough night shift and a character named Puck appears in playful dialogue.
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Grey
Jasper
Puck
A Woman's Back And Its Life Sapping Pain
A vintage warning about backache from uterine disorders and the promise of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as the unfailing remedy. It appeals to readers with a woman's sympathy, claiming thousands have found physical salvation and urging others not to hesitate.
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Lydia E. Pinkham
Sheridan's Condition Powder for Hens Promoted in Humorous Verse
An old advertisement via verse extols Sheridan's Condition Powder as the sole hen laying aid. It touts purity and concentration, claims low daily cost, and offers trials including sample copies of poultry paper, testimonial giveaways, and multi pack pricing from Johnson & Co of Boston.
Three- Room Cottage and the White House Story
The Public Ledger recounts Caroline Harrison’s thrifty, hands on work life from a cottage of three rooms, highlighting self reliance, mortgage restraint, and domestic achievement as a model for American women and the rise of opportunity from modest beginnings.
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White House
Harrison
Caroline Harrison
Washington
Indianapolis
Reindeer Import Aids Alaska People Hope For Yukon Move
A Washington dispatch reports 140 reindeer landed at Port Clarence with more expected to head toward the Yukon. Government education agent Mr. Jackson imported Siberian stock, aiming to improve transport and provide food and clothing. Capt Healey praised the project as vital for the Territory.
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Washington
Daily Press
Port Clarence
Yukon River
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Siberia
Yukon
Capt. Healey
Revenue Cutter
Bear
Christian Union
Thanksgiving Reflections From Charles Newton Hoop
Charles Newton Hoop reflects on gratitude amid fall, noting universal mercies and everyday kindnesses. He recalls an oyster supper fundraiser, humorous church anecdotes, and a deaf blind man content with simple blessings, urging readers to be thankful regardless of election outcomes.
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Deacon
Charles Newton Hoop
Thanksgiving Day Gratitude For Football Invention
Mrs Boneset asks if there is a special reason to give thanks and the doctor replies that they should be thankful for the invention of football as he packs his surgical case on Thanksgiving Day.
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Mra Boneset
Puck
Harper's Bazar
Bessie Chandler
Margaret E. Sangster
Irving Wilce
Richard and his Sweetheart Nell song from Studebaker
A quarto copy of Richard and his Sweetheart Nell is offered free by Studebaker Bros. Mfg. Co. South Bend Indiana upon payment of postage. The verses tell a drive by Richard and Nell with an elegant title page designed by Gray Parker. The melody by W F Sudds accompanies the love story.
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Richard
Nell
Studebaker Bros. Mfg. Co
South Bend
Ind
Gray Parker
Studebakers
W. F. Sudds
Thanksgiving and church notices in local affairs
Thanksgiving next Thursday and St Cecilia day next Tuesday are noted with services planned. Rev Calbraith B Perry led Trinity Church on Sunday in place of Rev W R Trott er, as Charles B Simon returns from Europe. Services are announced at State Street M E Church and the Baptist Church with a sermon on Conscience from Tor Castle. Mrs Ramon Guiteras and daughter Gertrude E Guiteras return from New Hampshire, and Harriet B Luther leaves the Grammar School with Fred Sanford filling in.
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Calbraith B. Perry
Trinity Church
Wm. RB. Trotter
The
Baptist Church
Tor Castle
Scotland
Harriet B Luther
Fred Sanford
Floral festival and jubilee events noted in town
Rev Morley preached at State Street M E Church in the absence of Rev Smith. A Democratic jubilation occurred Thursday with torchlights bands illuminations bonfires and cheers. The First Baptist Sunday School held a well decorated floral festival with readings hymns and a stereopticon display.
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S.D Morley
First Baptist Church
State Street
M. E
Wm J. Smith
L L. Anderstrom
John Lake
Louise A. Miller
Moxley
Death of Hon Isaac Williams longtime rubber works chief
Hon Isaac F Williams, superintendent of the National India Rubber Works in this town, died after a brief pneumonia at his Byfield street residence. A New York born, Ohio and Harlem origin, he led the rubber plant from its start in 1864 and served in local and state government roles, leaving two sons and a daughter. The funeral from St Michael's Church followed by burial at Juniper Hill. many officials and lodge members attended. The article also notes a Providence Opera House engagement by Taz Country Circus during Thanksgiving week.
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New York City
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Jersey City
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New Peterson opens as budget literary magazine
December marks the debut of The New Peterson an illustrated magazine of literature and art edited by Frank Lee Benedict Howard Seeley Octave Thanet and M G McClelland Contributing authors include EF Hale T W Higginson Hamlin Garland Joseph Kirkland John Vance Cheney William Archer and many others The issue promises high quality illustrations typography and paper rivaling expensive monthlies Terms are 2 00 a year 1 00 for six months A sample issue costs five cents The Perseon Manazie Co Philadelphia is the publisher TM Only 5 weeks to Christmas
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Howard Seeley
Octave Thanet
M. G. McClelland
EF. EK. Hale
T. W. Higginson
Hamlin Garland
Joseph Kirkland
John Vance Cheney
William Archer
Margaret Kent
Rebecca Harding Davis
Gertrude Atherton
Ruth McEnery Stuart
Charles W. Coleman
Frances Stevens
Eden
Howard Seely
Minna Irving
Alfred Tennyson
Charles Addison Mayhew
Perreson Manazie Co
Philadelphia
Primroses Shine Amid Ruined Wall in Frost String
A fragmented verse scene recalls a harbor road and a ruined wall where primroses glow golden despite frost and withering grass. The imagery contrasts the lively flowers with gray walls and dust, evoking seasonal change and quiet resilience.
World fair bids popcorn franchises at expo
The world’s fair management expects to realize 175000 dollars from franchises for the sale of popcorn at the exposition grounds. Charles Kamerer of Philadelphia has been acquitted after killing a man he mistook for a burglar in Mauer Austria. Several thousands of hair pins in many styles have been recovered from Pompeii.
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Pompeii
Charles Kamerer
Philadelphia
Mauer
Austria
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