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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 06, 1898
Page
6
A speaker recalls a long-ago Thanksgiving when Fair Prue refused his marriage proposal. Time has passed yet the memory of her gentle No remains, leaving a broken heart and a life book full of dull pages.
In a foggy rural station, the aging Cissel vouches to sell his prized horse Hawk to ease debts amid a bitter family dispute. Bob Cissel resists selling the horse, while neighbors debate a raffle and payments to creditors. On Thanksgiving, Hawk is sold, debts paid, and father and son confront their strained but hopeful reconciliation as sleigh bells ring.
A list of traditional items including cream of rice soup, oyster patties, roast turkey, cranberry sauce, browned potatoes, scalloped tomatoes, cheese, canned corn, celery mayonnaise, Bent's water crackers, apple pudding, hard sauce, grapes and bananas, coffee.
A Washington Star report reveals the Agriculture Department maintains a small animal menagerie for experimental disease studies. The collection includes rats mice guinea pigs rabbits fowls cattle and sheep kept at Benning Road and in a basement lab, with cages labeled rabies and warnings to handlers. A steer with blackleg stayed eight years at an experiment station, where staff grew attached to it.
The piece recalls stories of mean spending by visiting foreign performers. Cleo de Merode and her mother allegedly washed and ironed the dancer’s clothes, walked miles for cents, and sought profitable exchange rates in New York. Cleo earned $9,000 for her appearances.
The sermon outlines how the Spirit leads Jesus into a proving encounter with Satan, detailing the forty day fast, the three temptations, and Jesus responses from Scripture. It stresses reliance on God’s word, true worship, and the Spirit’s power, with implications for believers facing daily trials.
A London Fun column opens with a bantering exchange between The Blond and The Brunette. The Blond ponders reaching age one hundred while The Brunette jokes that longevity requires not staying twenty two.
An Arab boy Sabre Said helped Egyptian Exploration Society workers uncover papyrus at Behnesa in Egypt. They retrieved many documents and 150 rolls for the Gizeh museum. The highlight is a six by four inch leaf with logia of Christ dating before the second century, possibly older than any gospel manuscript.
Carl a five year old boy learns that beauty is found in nature and light. A king grants him a prism to bring colors of sunlight into his room. Grandfather narrates a fable about perception and wonder at a castle visit and with the prism Carl discovers colors beyond a crown. Ida S. MacMullan in Youths Companion.
A light anecdote from Tit-Bits about pranksters who coax a friend to fit a leg through his arms with wrists tied. The trick ends with the participant successfully threading the leg in but struggling to free it, followed by release after a brief bout of humor.
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