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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Nov 24, 1911
Page
4
In a New England hamlet Miss Abby Cullom keeps a thrifty cottage and sprawling garden while her neighbor the Beans, Southern crackers, live in a shiftless hut. An immense gobbler dominates Miss Abby’s scene as Thanksgiving nears, destined for a celebratory dinner.
Miss Abby helps the Bean family by cooking a large Thanksgiving turkey for eight hungry children despite her own loneliness and the couple’s poverty. Mrs Bean asks Abby to join in, and Abby’s reluctant generosity grows into a warm, transforming act as the children celebrate a feast they feared they might never have.
Governor Bradford notes a vast store of wild turkeys besides water fowl for the 61st Thanksgiving in 1623. The first feast fed fifty five white men and ninety Indians, prepared by four women one servant and a few maid kin.
A religious verse expresses gratitude to the Father for day and night, youth and age, sorrow and joy, harvest and wealth. It honors divine mercy guiding life and the hope of eternal unity in love, closing with a vision of Thanksgiving in heavenly mansions.
An illustrated parable features Mrs Hen and Mr Turkey discussing Thanksgiving. The hen boasts of a rare safe day while joking about threats to her head and the year’s rhythms as she finds gratitude in a single holiday.
The advertisement touts a patent medicine that allegedly cures backache strengthens kidneys protects urinary irregularities builds up worn tissues eliminates excess uric acid causing rheumatism prevents Bright's Disease and Diabetes and restores health. It warns to refuse substitutes and notes availability from all druggists.
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