Katy Holt Restores Family Bond With Thanksgiving Surprise
Katy Holt shells out a plan to reunite her estranged uncles for Thanksgiving. She recruits Uncle Will with a secret gift of two engraved rings and a homecoming dinner that mends a rift between Tom and Billy. The brothers reconcile as Katy asks to return to school and vows yearly gatherings.
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Katy Holt
Tom Holt
William Holt
Red Dog
William
Tom
Golden Wonder
Jack
Katy
Will
Indian Jack
Uncle Billy
Uncle Will
Billy
Kitty
Dad
David H. Walker
San Francisco Chronicle
Pumpkin delights and croquettes recipe selections emerge
A recipe passage offers pumpkin based treats including palatable puffs with pumpkin milk eggs and spices. It details pumpkin croquettes with mashed pumpkin butter milk yolks and frying, plus a pumpkin pie with milk sugar eggs cinnamon ginger and pastry shell baked hot.
Turkey Great and Pumpkin Big Duel Over Thanksgiving
A fable dialogue between Turkey Great and Pumpkin Big discusses the upcoming Thanksgiving, each claiming royal status in the kitchen garden. They acknowledge the inevitable end but hope to be crowned king in meals and pies. The exchange ends with a mutual sigh.
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Pumpkin Big
How Thanksgiving Proclamation Is Made at the White House
A detailed account explains the presidential process for the yearly Thanksgiving proclamation. Roosevelt drafts, revises with stenographers, and seals the document at the State Department, with the permanent archive dating back to 1795.
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White House
Roosevelt
Loeb
Department of State
Secretary of State
The
United States
New York
State Department
George Washington
Republic
Sarah Josepha Hale
Bunker Hill Monument
Abraham Lincoln
Lincoln
Miles Standish’s Triumph
A humorous Thanksgiving vignette from the New York Herald written in colonial voice. Miles Standish praises a roasted turkey as he jokes about Alden’s divorce filing from Priscilla, claiming she is a common scold and that he has not spoken since the marriage.
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Miles Standish
Plymouth
Prithee
Alden
Priscilla
New York Herald
Thanksgiving mood as daily virtue urges inner calm
A Congregationalist reflection argues Thanksgiving should be the culmination of ordinary life not a rare mood. It urges temper restraint and habitual gratitude to foster cheer, warning against dwelling on deprivations and sorrows on the holiday.
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Congregationalist
Salt to Preserve Butter Says German Experiments
German scientists report butter keeps best when salted at 3 to 5 percent. Higher salt content yields less satisfactory results.
Wonderful Power of Falls
A quotation compares the power of Victoria Falls and Niagara to all coal burned, suggesting the falls could produce power one and a half times greater than current coal-fired output.
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Victoria Falls
Niagara
An Inspired Thanksgiving Proclamation
A religious message exhorts joyful devotion to the Lord. The excerpt echoes Psalm 100 urging praise, gratitude, and recognition of God as creator and shepherd with enduring mercy and truth.
Thanksgiving spirit amid shortage and gratitude across generations
An essay contrasts the traditional feast with modern shortages, noting oysters and turkeys may be unaffordable yet the core of Thanksgiving remains gratitude. It reflects on the settlers' harsher times, the death toll, and reminds readers to value health and family over lavish provisions.
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New
Massachusetts Colony
Thanksgiving Hospitality And True Spirit Of Fellowship
An essay on Thanksgiving hospitality emphasizing warm welcome and shared meals. It describes a formal dinner menu including appetizers, soup, turkey with vegetables, salads, multiple pies, puddings, nuts, and coffee. It notes etiquette for pacing guests and offers inventive substitutes like pumpkin fachonettes and chestnut compote.
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Lucky
Erie
Practical small square house plan offers comfort and value
Radford guides readers on a 24 by 30 foot seven room plan with bath and ample storage. The design emphasizes plain, well ventilated spaces, elevated above grade with full cellars, a light open stair, a veranda, and efficient hot air heating. Estimated complete cost around $2,000 with gas and electric wiring.
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Providence
Thanksgiving Welcome In The Lord Keeps Tomorrow
A historical verse celebrates Thanksgiving with rustic gratitude. It praises the land, fields and towns, forgiveness, and blessings. The speaker embraces dawn and daily sustenance, cherishing present joys while trusting divine care for tomorrow.
Two Girls to Be Pitied
A satirical remark on upper middle class families raising daughters to marry well. The speaker notes educated daughters sent into society with charm and dress, implying shallow preparation for marriage and the endless pursuit of husbands.
The King of Thanksgiving and Its Story Told
A reflective piece frames Thanksgiving as a yearly, unifying feast. It recounts ancestral gratitude upon arrival in the land and notes the holiday’s enduring cheerful tone. An anecdote about a penniless man and a cheap restaurant illustrates simple holiday gratitude.
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Yvette Guilbert
New York
France
Don't Axe Me
A Pilgrim tale set in a farmhouse filled with pies preserves and spice. Farmer Jones eyes a brand new axe in the woodshed as a fat turkey wanders near the yard and jokes about tomorrow's fate. The scene blends rustic abundance with a dark day looming.
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Farmer Jones
Nerve scent drugging described in society piece
A society column describes a new drug trick using a gold perfume bottle containing ether enhanced Parma violet essence. Women inhale the scent to boost energy at dinners or parties. A second version mixes eau de cologne with ether for similar alertness.
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Paris
Bible and ticket found on a trawler near Tyne
A Shields trawler hauled a Bible with a Shipwrecked Fishermen and Mariners ticket inside. The ticket, for Martin Jensen of South Shields, dated January 29 1907, was claimed by Mrs Jensen as belonging to her husband who died when the Tynecollier Stag foundered seven months earlier. The Bible and ticket were in excellent condition.
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Shields
Tyne
Fishermen and Mariners Royal Benevolent Society
Martin Jensen
Maxwell Street
South Shields
Back to Nature prompts country living dream
Volney T. Malott and family consider moving to the country as city folks seek nature. While viewing the northern Marion county area they admire a Millersville farm site with a knoll ideal for a house. Mrs. Malott favors it. Mr. Malott notes they owned the place 30 years.
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Volney T. Malott
Marion County
Millersville Way
Mr. Malott
Indianapolis News
Sounds Like Insult From a Fashionable Passenger
A woman recalls wearing bright yellow shoes polished to high shine at the shop where she bought them. At the station she waits for a train and a boy asks to shine the shoes, a moment she finds tiresome and insulting.
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