A Soldier’s Ring and a Silent War Love Story
Rose Hamilton awaits news of Frank Burton who asks her to marry him just as he sails toward Cuba. A diamond ring is given, letters arrive from Chickamauga and Tampa, then a heroic wound and promotion unfold. Five months pass with no word as battles and casualties unfold around their awaiting hearts.
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Rose
Neal Bof
Frank
Vox
Mother
Father
Fred
Chickamanga
Tampa
Cuba
Tose
Siboney
Mr. Hamilton
Rank
Trank
Frank Burton
Santiago
Irank
Sose
Stose
Iose
Stiles
Fide
Vrank
Florida
New England Thanksgiving Oyster Tradition Roots
The essay notes that oyster soup has long been part of Thanksgiving in New England. It recalls the 1621 Plymouth feast where Massasoit and his followers brought oysters and wild turkeys. The habit links early colonial thanks with modern table customs, uniting old and new practices on the holiday.
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New England
Plymouth
Bradford
Indiana
Massasoit
Old New England
Thanksgiving in the Silent Hills and Woods
A fragmented verse scene depicts winter scenery on silent hills with snow on oaks and beeches. It references Thanksgiving time, a presidential proclamation, and a satirical jab at war, with characters like Jack Frost and rabbits in a rustic woodland setting.
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Jack
Thanksgiving Romance Amid War and Historic Proclamations
A young couple celebrates a hopeful Thanksgiving as war looms, vows tested by Frank Burton's regimental call to Tampa and illness. Rose endures separation, reunion, and letters while later events recount English and American Thanksgiving milestones from 1588 to Lincoln's 1803 proclamation and beyond.
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Tabernacles
Prince of Wales
New England
Massachusetts Bay Colony
Congress
Lincoln
Dolls, Bears, and a Boy's Wide-Eyed Day
A Youth's Companion reader tells of a parlor magic experiment with salt water threads and a floating ring. Jimmie watches a bear act in a street show by an Italian, reveals a hidden boy inside the bear head, and the crowd pays ten pennies to see more tricks, ending with surprised laughter and a lesson on being fooled.
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Jimmie
Little Bear
Alelee
London Children Learn to Swim at Guard Schools
London youths are increasingly taught swimming, with Guard schools offering clubs and weekly sessions. At St Bride's Institute swimming is a course feature with about 700 participants this session, nearly half female, many from the post office. Riverbank residents along the Thames also swim regularly.
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London
St. Bride's Institute
Thames
Teddington
Windsor
Newcastle
Eng
Cheap Labor in China and Peru River Origins
Cheap labor in China drives low production costs with skilled workers. An illustration shows sheet lead for shipping tea made by stacking bricks, paper, and molten lead to form thin sheets. Peru derives its name from the Rio Parana, with Pará as a Brazilian modifier linked to rivers.
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China
Food nearer price advance in provisions and egg losses
Following the election prices for provisions rose across most items. Pork wholesale has edged up about one cent per pound, while ham remains cheaper. bacon costs more than ham due to heavy army demand. Dressed beef shows no price rise, and vegetables jump with cold weather. Eggs and butter now fetch winter prices as hens mol t and cold storage declines accelerate scarcity and risk.
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New York City
United States
Beef Trust
Me Informs the President Be Cannot serve After March 4
Washington cabinet notes show Attorney General Griggs will resign effective March 4 next, marking the first definite cabinet change in the new administration. John W. Yerkes is named Collector of Internal Revenue for the Eighth District, resigning to pursue his Kentucky gubernatorial bid. Amy force plans indicate a minimum 100,000 strong, with rise in general officers. Michigan population rises to 2,420,082, up 327,003 since 1890 for a 15.0 percent gain.
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Washington, D. C
Specia
Griggs
John W. Yerkes
Johbn
Yerkes
Kentucky
Beckhams
Michigan
Bureau
Washington
Brothers Rescued After Yacht Capsizes In Barnegat Bay
Henry and James Conover, of Atlantic City, were rescued after their yacht overturned in Barnegat Bay. The brothers, four days adrift, faced cold and hunger but survived when a squall sank their vessel and an anchor held it fast, keeping it from drifting ashore.
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Henry
James Conover
Atlantic City
N. J
Barnegat Bay
Iand
Widow of famed bandit Jess James dies in Missouri
Mrs Zeralda James widow of Jess James the noted Southwestern bandit died at her Kauss City Missouri home after a long illness. She married James by 1874 and they had one son Jouse Jr now in business in Kansas City.
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Jounn James
Dica
Zeralda James
Jess James
Kauss City
James
Jouse, Jr
Kansas City
Exchequer Chief Says Prauxvaal Must Share South Africa Costs
Sir Michael Hicks Beach, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, told Triste, England that the wealth of the Prauxvaal will have to bear part of the heavy expenses incurred in South Africa. The statement underscores pressure on colonial finances and calls for shared burden among dominions.
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Michael Hicks-Beach
Triste
England
Washington items from The News Epitomized
Postmaster-General Smith closes a parcel post convention with Venezuela. Miles calls for military reform and a standing army per 1000 inhabitants. Loog announces armor plate price with Carnegie and Bethlehem totals 455.63 dollars. Bradford urges use of Marconi wireless on naval vessels. Hawaii elections favor royalists, defeating both Democrats and Republicans for delegate and legislature. Cable dispatch censorship in Manila removed. Smith appointed Collector of Customs at Manila. Root and Wood visit Havana and tour Cuba's south coast with officials.
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Smith Hag
Hawaii
Congress
Manila
Fames F. Smith
Root
Wood
Havana
Cuba
Various Disasters and Global News From Early 1900s
A wide array of incidents and reports include Bernard Stein convicted in Chicago for indecent literature, deaths by murder and accident across the U S and Europe, fires, drownings, and avalanches. Notable items cover indictments, political shifts, naval collisions, gaspoisonings, and military actions in India, France, and China.
Supreme Court backs Tennessee ban on cigarettes
The U S Supreme Court ruled five to four that a state may prohibit selling cigarettes and substitutes within its borders. The decision upholds Tennessee’s act targeting cigarettes and related papers as not per se lawful commerce, and notes the case of William B. Austin of the American Tobacco Company against Tennessee. Justice Brown delivered the opinion. Justices Shiras Fuller Peet ham dissented with White concurring on different grounds.
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Washington, &. C
Supreme Court of the
United States
William B. Austin
American Tobacco Company
The
Tobacco Trust
Tennessee
Trust
North Carolina
Td Supreme Court
Congress
Ita
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Shiras
Fuller
Brewer and Peettham
White
Young Denniston 3 Percent Bell Taken to New York Asylum
Denniston M Bell known as a society firebug is declared insane after insanity experts examined him for days. His father Dr C Bell filed a charge of insanity and police took him to Bloomingdale Asylum in New York City to avoid Rhode Island custody. Authorities link his earlier Bailey's Beach arson arrest to the case.
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Bell
New York
Newport
R. I
Denniston M. Bell
Supreme Court
C. Mr. Bell
Fsse
Bloomingdale Asylum
New York City
Rhode Island
Bailey's Beach
New Yorker
Hundreds of Arrests and More Police Added in Chicago
Chicago city meeting approved ten thousand dollars for one hundred twenty one extra officers in crime districts. In thirty six hours four hundred arrests were made as the dragnet swept the city. Stations were full with many old offenders among the captured pickpockets highwaymen and burglars. Police activity stretched from South Chicago to Evanston and west to the city limits. Arrest one plea lous characters was the order given them.
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Bernard Stein
Chicago
Paul Fuoz
St. Louis
Columbia University
New York City
Maine
R. W. Bennett
Elsie
Waycross
Lake Shore
Polk
Penn
Corgis
South Africa
John C. Hoffelmeier
Grant Powder Company
Sobrante
Cal
Christian F. Ahlstrom
Mira Abbie Whitney
Sabattus
Lewiston
William D. Jelks
Alabama Senate
William J. Sanford
Jelks
John D. Hart
Hare
Atlantic City
N. J
Health Department
William ¥. Strong
Evanston
Minite
Turkish Form of Chivalry Storm Claims Turkish Ship
A party of thirty eight Turks attempting to flee Russia sailed from Tachuruksa to cross the Black Sea. A storm wrecked the boat, passengers were cast overboard. The baggage and then the children and women were thrown overboard before the vessel foundered. only one lad survived clinging to the mast.
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London
the Express
Odessa
Russia
Tachuruksa
Black Sea
Thanksgiving Proclamation Amid War and Wonder
A gubernatorial proclamation designates November 29 as a day of public Thanksgiving urging abstinence from labor and assembly in worship. The article also details Paterson fortune for John Mitchell, a double murder case in Trenton Junction, a bridge fire rescue on Lenola, and appoints Col Alexander C. Oliphant as Adjutant-General. Further notes cover a 60th wedding anniversary, a 104 year old death, milk price changes, oyster ground survey halt, a civil suit by Vineland workers’ families, a judge praised by women, khaki experiments, and a Leiden widow’s poverty.
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Voorhees
Hias
Foster M. Voorhees
New Jersey
Limon lynching of Preston Porter Jr for murder of Lauree Frost
The article details a mob execution at a prairie near Simon Lincoln County where Preston Porter Jr. known as John Porter was burned alive after confessing to killing eleven year old Lauree Frost. The lynching involved a rail set on ground, burning boards, and a large crowd. Father of the victim lit the fuel as the process began, amid telegraph cuts and reporters present. The incident sparked widespread condemnation of the method.
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Lincoln County
Qrimlyth
Simon
Porter
R. W. Frost
Louisa Frost
Louise Frost
Limon
Bank directors guilty of falsifying books in Douglas sale
The director, manager and auditors of Dumbell's Bank, Douglas, were found guilty of falsifying the bank's books after its recent failure of over 500000. Sentence was deferred as ruined depositors cheered. Also reported are transfers of thirteen insane soldiers from the Philippines to the government asylum in Washington.
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Dumbell's Bank
Douglas
Sale of Man
Philippines
Fiosidio Hospital
San Francisco
Washington
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