Digest of global trivia and notable facts from 1900 era lists
Excerpts report on varied topics from 88 year figures to explorers. Items include counts of Sunday school pupils in Spain, miles of electric lines in the U.S., a Paris congress, a count’s centenary, and Rockefeller gifts. Notes on ships, banks, agriculture, and science mention Japan, Cuba, Russia, and India with summaries of peculiar devices and social quirks.
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United States
Sawyer
LieuTnNine
Monaghan
Ireland
Morocco
Spain
Fiosetta Viniie
Hull
Mass
United States Supreme Court
Shiras
Paris
Count von Moltke
India
Wisconsin
Belgium
John D. Rockefeller
Cleveland
Enetisa
Maria Allen
Elyria
Woman’s Relief Corps
Guatemala
Grand Opera House
Ardin
Asia Minor
Charles I
Fritz B Orr
Kruger
Mississippi River
Russia
Sax Dizco Maszo
Omaha
Cuba
Germany
Alice Serber
New York
United States District Court
Allegheny County
Banksville Co-Operative Association
Baden-Powell
Tur Lick Observatory
Lick
Mizar
Colorado Supreme Court
Thanksgiving Feast Across Plymouth to Golden Gate
An excerpt recalls the Pilgrim thanksgiving with corn, pease, venison, and wild fowl. Bradford leads prayers praising providence and daily bread as settlers celebrate abundance from Plymouth to the West Coast, with hymns and gratitude for providence and land.
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New England
Plymouth
Bradford
Fowlers
Golden Gate
Alice Williams Brotherton
Thanksgiving Dinner Sparks a Farmhouse Reunion
Aunt Sarah, thinking her mortgage paid, frets over a belated Thanksgiving feast as she plans to welcome Cousin Jim and his family after twenty years apart. A restless memory of loss shadows the day while Susie Belle tends the oven and a pumpkin falls.
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Sarie
Sarah
Sarah Jane Smithers
Jim
Susie Belle
Aunt Sarah
Susie Bélle
Missouri
Mr. Stanton
Newton Bank
Watertown
Newton
Christian
Thanksgiving Test of a Mortgage Burdened Hearth
Aunt Sarah frets over a $1000 mortgage on the old house as she plans a big Thanksgiving for Jim’s folks. Rain and ruin disrupt the town. she opens her doors to flood victims, hosting twenty strangers and reconciling her duty with family plans.
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Sarah
Jim
Letter Brings Hidden Gift to Aunt Sarah
Amid a late family dinner, Cousin Jim’s son delivers a letter to Aunt Sarah. The note from a wealthy stranger, Robert Upton, includes a large bank note and a plea for forgiveness for the gift. Aunt Sarah reacts with humility as she reads the generous payment.
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Susan
Jim
Sarah
Robert Upton
Eleanor Norton Parker
N. Y
Thanksgiving Proclamations and a humorous 1620 origin tale
The piece explains how the presidential Thanksgiving proclamation is drafted, copied, sealed, and distributed to governors and the press, noting Washington's initial use and Lincoln reviving the practice. It then shares a boy’s funny history of Thanksgiving from 1620 and the church dinner ritual before noon.
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Hallowe’en
State Department
Pardors and Commissions
Union
United States
Washington
Lincoln
England
N. Y
Thanksgiving proverb echoes in the New York World
A Thanksgiving quip from the New York World praises the meal’s centerpiece, noting the bird on the table holds more value than one waiting in the coop. The brief witticism reflects holiday customs and newspaper humor of the era.
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N. Y
A Welcome Day and Thanksgiving Day Customs
A Welcome Day notes Thanksgiving as a national practice of grateful living and practical acts. It recalls a long tradition of generous meals and the familiar Thanksgiving image of turkey and cranberry sauce. Readers reflect on inviting dinners and social etiquette during the holiday season.
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Detroit Fres Press
Thanksgiving Writings Spur Reflection on Abundance
A brief bulletin quotes a line about Thanksgiving inspiring households to reflect on plenty and start anew as the holiday spreads its message across the table and home.
Domestic advice and a grasshopper morale tale
A reader recounts overheard talk on sons overemphasizing sports or music and neglecting duties. The tale contrasts a summer grasshopper with an industrious ant and ends with a quip about women admiring heroes at weddings, summarizing social observations in a satirical tone.
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Hopper
Waterville
Gnove Tastee Cumu.Tonic Promises Quick Chills Cure
The ad promotes Gnove s Tastee Cumu.Tonic as a simple iron and quinine remedy with no cure no pay, priced at 50c. It contrasts fashion with a father’s endless costs and notes Chicago Dispatch misgivings about conga tors. Also mentions Laxative Bromone tablets for colds with money back if ineffective.
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Ruggists
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