Why They Give Thanks to America and Queen Victoria
A fragmented 19th century reflection contrasts American disdain for monarchs with lingering Victorian loyalties. The text contrasts Uncle Sam’s sons with American girls’ tastes for coronets, implying mixed attitudes toward royalty and power.
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Belated Romance in a New England Thanksgiving
Herbert Russell returns to his boyhood town for Thanksgiving and finds his past love Margaret still within reach. He reunites with old friends, confronts a life of loneliness, and after a formal night confession wins her in a grand wedding at the Phillips mansion a year later.
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Story of the Week Notes From Across the West
A broad digest reports Tacoma elevators holding 540000 bushels of wheat and Arizona canals serving 300000 acres. It lists Baker City improvements, a fatal cabin fire in Canyon City, and regional incidents from Oregon to Idaho and Wyoming. Also notes a Panama murder trial, frontier mining bets, and advertisements for Electric Bitters.
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Thanksgiving Ode Sells For Turkey Bid
A poet offers an ode to Thanksgiving to an editor who jokes he has $3 for the turkey. The editor replies with a curt quip about his own contribution.
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Double theft at boarding house targets legislators
On November 23 Senator Tisdale and Representative Davia of Johnson County were chloroformed and robbed in their lodging. Over $100 in cash disappeared while watches and diamonds remained. The incident followed a disorderly election week with added tensions in town as workers from the Union Pacific shop and train crews arrived. In London a Hatton Garden Catholic church service erupted when a priest denounced Parnell, causing a crowd to scatter and assault Father Banam before police escorted him home.
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Death of the King of Holland and Immediate Aftermath
The King of Holland died at 6 this morning after a sudden decline. The Queen stayed by the bed. life ebbed quickly. Public buildings closed, half mast, and the body to be embalmed for Tuesday. Queen Emma may be proclaimed Regent and take oath soon. Emperor William sent condolence to the Queen.
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