Thanksgiving Hope Redeems a Daughter and Father
A penniless orphan girl Hope Grey sells a landscape painting to support herself after her mother’s death. The art buyer, Jasper Darwood, discovers her identity through a clerk and helps reunite Hope with her father, John Gray, who seeks redemption after years apart. Thanksgiving inspires a fresh start and a moral about seizing life’s blessings.
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Thanksgiving Turkey Fever Fades After Holiday Peak
A brief line notes that after Thanksgiving, interest and activity around the holiday subsides. The speaker expresses a plan to stay put as the turkey-centric rush ends. No additional figures or events are provided.
Emerson Thought for Thanksgiving Day on Personalities
The Philadelphia Press quotes Ralph Waldo Emerson urging Thanksgiving readers to favor American passions and grand personalities over Europe and material concerns. He argues the earth serves humanity, not the other way around, and urges a rise of noble character to counter materialism.
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Philadelphia Press
Gobble Gobble Gobble Tid Bits Verse on Thanksgiving
A humorous Tid Bits verse describes Thanksgiving chaos with a courting swain, Phyllis, and a turkey facing doom. The scene features a housewife, cranberry sauce anxieties, drumsticks, gravy, and a cook amid smoking ovens as the turkey faces fate. The seasonal spoof ends with a cyclone hurling the turkey away.
A Thanksgiving Lesson From a Torn Family
An elderly miller’s wife recalls a thirty year marriage strained by harsh words and jealousy as Thanksgiving approaches. A hidden peril unfolds when her son Jamie, crippled since a childhood accident, faces a near fatal plunge from a mill scaffold. A brave Dora restrains him, saving both, and the mother’s guilt turns to gratitude as forgiveness and love heal old wounds.
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Detroit Free Press
Scientific Scraps From A Curious Late 19th Century Page
A miscellany on biology physics and technology. It notes a shad yields 100000 eggs with 56000 hatched naturally and 98000 by artificial methods. USC seeks a 42 inch telescope, and a can be cut on Wilson Peak. A submarine torpedo driven by Edison dynamo uses compressed oxygen and scissors. A platypus skin from Australia arrives in Portland Oregon for display at a fair.
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Dress Reform Society and Fashion News
A Battle Creek group forms a dress reform society opposing corsets and high heels. The item blends notes on missionary attire, Spanish honeymoon car gossip, brides favors origins, Swiss file cutters for Edison mimlograph plates, and an odd tale about Mme Hading's eyes. A Oregon woman mail carrier Minnie Westman, bears reports of bears and boars on her Siuslaw River route.
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Portland Oregonian
November Drear Turned Warmth By One Glowing Day
A verse fragment notes November, once dreary, brightened by a day of warmth and glow. The speaker imagines joy spilling over, coloring the season despite the calendar’s gloom.
Phonkegiving Day and radiant souls in poetry
A fragmentary verse excerpt by Lucy Larcom contrasts a gloomy day with a smiling face that chases darkness away. It celebrates radiant souls bringing cheer, rendering night more pleasant than day.
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Lucy Larcom
Worm-proof cotton grown by Florenville planter Mrs Rowley
Mrs Rowley of Florenville Texas grows a cotton variety she believes is worm proof. She notes the plant resists insects even when rows touch and foliage is stripped nearby. The leaves are London purple in color with long fine staple and woolly curl. She has studied it six years and plans to plant more widely.
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New York World
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Message to Georgie Forces a Hasty Return
A terse exchange unfolds as a mother sends Georgie with a message and a strict demand to hurry back. After two hours he returns, prompting a sharp reminder that he was told to hurry, and a quip about the ambiguous instruction.
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Thanksgiving Pie Prepares The Home Front
A lively note describes a wife known for a superb mines pie that is digestible rich and juicy. It portrays the wife as the husband’s apple and central to Thanksgiving, celebrating domestic prowess and seasonal bounty.
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