Queer Old Maxims for the Thanksgiving Table
A vintage collection of household maxims suitable for dinner cards and Thanksgiving readings, including lines urging frugality, prudent housekeeping, and domestic virtue. The piece notes how such customs spread from New England to western states and gained slower acceptance in the South, where Civil War tensions delayed proclamations.
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West
New England
South
We Thank Thee For Beauty From Emerson Poem
A fragment of Ralph Waldo Emerson praise notes nature with gratitude for flowers grass birds streams and skies. The excerpt thanks a higher power for beauty found in streams blue skies and fragrant air amid blooming trees.
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Bea
Father
Ralph Waldo Emerson
King of Festivals Proclaimed In Autumn Thanksgiving
In Oldtown Folks the autumn thanksgiving marks harvest completion with apples cider pumpkins and corn. A community mood of repose follows the labor season as frost crisp mornings give way to Indian summer sunshine and the deacon suggests a Thanksgiving proclamation.
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Harriet Beecher Stowe
Oldtown
Do Your Work Three Reasons for Local Cleaning
A brief ad-like passage urges local cleaner use for health and appearance. It promotes scientific sanitary methods and reasonable pricing, arguing residents should patronize nearby services rather than out-of-town concerns.
Annual Meeting of the Savings Trust Company of Indiana Pennsylvania
Notice that the annual meeting of the stockholders will be held in the bank rooms of the company on Thursday November 21 1915 at 11:00 a.m. to elect five directors for a term. Secretary Lewis signs the notice dated October.
A City Bird and a Boarding House Romance
Gardiner in New York finds companionship and love with Laura Edwards a young woman who works as a retoucher. They dream of a four room apartment, daylight and a country life, while Miss Meloney notes their late departure. Their bond grows as they plan a future beyond the lonely city lodging.
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New York
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Laura
Dayton
Ohio
Tom
Mr. Gardiner
Peresh
Tor
Honey Girl
McClure
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