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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 28, 1906
Page
8
The crew faces a Thanksgiving at sea with a failing carburetor and engine trouble. Ten of thirty six cylinders fail, leaving only canned peas and pumpkin as provisions while they drift northwest and fix the machinery. The mate jokes about the holiday as the Skipper notes the calendar.
A chaotic diary-like passage recounts a balloon voyage where geese are captured for a wild Thanksgiving dinner and relics from Arctic expeditions are sold in New York. Nearby briefs report R. L. Barrington dead from a self-inflicted wound in Newark. Roosevelt removes Porto Rico district attorney Noah B. K. Pettingill for malfeasance. Mrs Addison H. Gibson dies by her own hand in Pittsburgh. Memphis notes a legal contest on a stability act and a separate $18 debts line closes.
In Centervale Mrs Stetson defies her husband Jim by seizing a Thanksgiving turkey after discovering he sold their own birds to fund a raffle at Tom Babb's store. She wins the raffled bird for home use, while Jim, softened, promises no more turkeys raffled for.
In the Bronx at Claremont Park last night several laborers were trapped in a sewer trench 26 feet deep when they hit quicksand. Two men were killed and three more are believed buried as earth collapsed. Timbers creaked warning others to flee as sand swept their colleagues.
Oklahoma City on November 28 reports that Sergeant Harris Jacob Frazer Mingo Sanders Thornton and Holly from Fort Reno are en route to appeal to President Roosevelt. Harris says they seek not reinstatement but records of service on their discharge papers noting up to 25 years of service.
South Sudbury notes cover John W Garfield finishing a house with shingles, Ira T Nador visiting relatives in Lynn, changes to a barn on N ae Spasomorten’s new house, Henry C Reid family on vacation near the Grand Trunk line in New Hampshire, Frank Davis selling to George Smith who moved from New Hampshire, Sante moving nearer Boston for work, and Charlotte Smith ill requiring care with sympathy offered.
Sudbury local listing notes Dr. Cochran practicing dentistry at Case's block on Nason Street in Maynard.
A fragment from P. J. Tansey reveals a doomed bird’s final scene with a dying exhortation. The piece conveys a somber, personal moment as the turkey faces its end and responds to the hunter’s call.
A Navajo chief Horsetail laments hunger on white man’s Thanksgiving day. Three hundred braves camp with families near Broken Ridge as railroad workers announce feasting. Three young braves ride in, faces smeared with jam and marmalade, shouting for the white man’s dinner.
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