Thanksgiving kindness grows from a cold evening
Jenny Forde helps a sick widow and her children, gathers work, and hosts a Thanksgiving feast after a chance encounter with Mrs Meredith. When hardship returns, Jenny’s generosity spreads through the Denis family, culminating in a joyful reunion with Uncle Jim and a renewed home.
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Jim
Nanny
Jenny
Denises
Alice
Mrs. Denis
Meredith
Europe
Little Alice
Wiss-Bone
Harper’s Bazar
How to Live to Be Ninety by Mr Rufus Wethersby Hicks
Mr Hicks of Oshkosh at ninety shares humorous health tips from his letter. He advocates fresh air sleep, tub bathing, light breakfasts with unusual portions, and quirky exercises like climbing in and out of a tub and singing through the chimney flue. His advice blends practical habits with playful anecdotes and mild self-deprecation.
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Nebraska
N. B
Mr. Hicks
Hicks
Rufus Wethersby Hicks
Oshkosh
CN. B
M. Adeler
The Sabots of Beech Wood Workers in a Forest Camp
A detailed depiction of sabotiers living and working near a stream in a seasonal forest camp. Families, apprentices, and mules inhabit a hut camp while beech trees are felled, cut, shaped, and finished into varied sizes of wooden shoes. The rhythms of labor and family life are set against seasonal forest life.
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Saboliers
Chambers
Don't Point A Gun At Yourself Hunters Safety Note
A scattered historical note warns hunters about gun safety, listing many cautions and hazards. It includes advice on not loading, not using guns as tools, not treating a firearm as a walking stick, and safety reminders about muzzle direction and handling. The passage also mentions a lieutenant governor and a humorous incident over a barber providing services at a charge, reflecting old-time public notices and etiquette.
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Manitoba
Sawed off Jake's Saloon Bet Racks Up Odd Cash Wager
A Cleveland Plain Dealer item recounts a saloon wager where a man bets on the length of Jake's mouth. The crowd proves the mouth spans seventeen and a half inches, prompting laughter and a boastful, if confused, reaction from Jake.
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Jake
Ontario Street
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Poultry Varieties and Egg Yields From Fanny Field
Fanny Field reports from the Ohio Farmer on egg production by chicken breeds. Light Brahmas Partridge Cochins and several others lay from 120 to 160 eggs per year, with rates per pound ranging from seven to nine. Bantams yield about ninety per year. she notes she did not track feed costs.
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Fanny Field
Ohio Farmer
Plymouth
la Fleche
Seasonable Feeding for Cows to Sustain Milk Output
The text advises farmers to favor mild cows with moderate, seasonally suitable feed as pasture shortens. Hay alone won’t boost milk. root crops, cabbages, and slops with meat, bran, and shorts help maintain milk and butter production. Proper feeding can extend lactation and reduce the dry period.
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Ohio
Beauty and health gain from oppitters trial
The passage argues that fair skin rosy cheeks and sparkling eyes cannot be achieved by cosmetics alone while in poor health and asserts that oppitters bring health strength and beauty, labeling a trial as proof and directing readers to another column.
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France
A Reliable Life Insurance Policy
A Life Insurance agency is commended for safety and reliability. The stock company operates under Health Life titles with policies issued via Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery and Pleasant Purgative Pellets. Agents are appointed across principal areas.
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Health
Pierce
An Astonishing Offer From The Independent
The Independent of New York offers a Worcester Una Bridged Quarto Pictorial Dictionary free in a column, a $10 retail value, as the paper also previews Rev Joseph Cook's Boston lectures and upcoming Socialism and Communism articles by ex President Woolsey. Dr R V Prence of Buffalo recently won Congress by a large majority, with medical practice backing his political service and a medical staff trusted to manage affairs while he sits in Congress beginning December 1879.
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Kentucky
Pennsylvania
Congress
Hawk-Eye
Chicago
Keokuk
Mississippi
Flood
San Francisco
Gloucester
New Orleans Picayune
New York City
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N. Y
Johnny
Medical Students of
Ohio
Hennon
Missouri
Manhattan
Somersetshire
England
Richmond
THE
Independent
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Worcester
Joseph Cook
Boston
T ‘Heo
D. Woolsey
D. D
R. V. Prence
Buffalo
Pierce
Librar Sherp
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Defiance
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Mercy
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Snall
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King's Desire
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Jenny Forde
Scotland
Fifth Avenue
Connecticut
Forde
Miss Forde
Jennie Forde
Denis
Jim Wou
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Norwich
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Arctic Ocean
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Hopkins
Reese
Colton
Central Pacific
Celton
California
Michael Reese
Lieber
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Comany
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House of Flood & O
O’brien
United States
Alta
Henderson County
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Scientific American
Texas
Sedalia
Inlaw
Cor. Conman
Eias
Organ of Carpenters and Builders
D. Lakey
Broadway
Mason & Hamlin
Pulvermacher Galvanic Co., Cincin.,o
York
Ashley, Ill
M. E. Les
Bright
K. Kcribe Hunt
Clarke
Providence
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W. H. Thompson
Harbour Grace
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Pugwash, N. S
DR. Clay
Ti Tian
Erie
Osman
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H. &Co
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Phila Pa
Crproll
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Kerrt
Wooomas @ Co
Ee S & Bo
Mass
True & CO
Augusta, Me
Halleta Co
Portland
Mathew
Father Mathew Temperance and Manufacturing Co
Bond St
John J. Shorey
Bromfield St
Paris
Vienna
Gantiago
Philadelphia
Heston
Mason & Anew
C. T. Dewitt
Rose St
Daniel
Nelson & P
Sterling Chemical
Wood & CO
Minuison St
Agents’ Herald
Sampcopies Inc
Agents’ Directory & Smithography
Agents’ Pub. House
Philo
Downing
Holiday Music Books
Howard
Noel
Eyaisants Sens
Ue LA Frosteiog Masons
Oliver Ditson & CO
C.H. Ditson & Co
John Hannas
L.ba i
Electro Silicon Liniment Co
Elma
Farrand, Williams & CO
Detroit
Mich
J.D. Park & Son
Cincinnati
Fuller &, Fuller
Houghton, Osgood & Co
Temperance and
HOP Bitters Mfg. CO
Rochester
N.Y
Michigan
Joe Mich
WH. F. Cummings & CO
U. S
Claim Agt
Washington, D. C
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