Thanksgiving Turkeys and Aunt Grace Visit
A young narrator recalls a turkey nest with eggs vanished after Uncle Jack’s toothache kept him away, causing a feared Thanksgiving loss. Aunt Grace, Minnie Grace’s namesake, arrives from England as family plans a holiday with Papa worrying over a turkey and dress bills. The tale weaves small-town chaos with Aunt Grace’s looming visit and Miss Hills’s age and manners, setting a lively, humorous Thanksgiving backdrop.
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Yale Jack
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Danple
Miss Rile
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Olay
Papa Mays
Aunt Grats
Ex’land
Minvia
Bussiec G. Hart
Critics Pick Yankee Women as Best in Cultured America
The Critia readers select 20 American women as the truest representatives of cultivated womanhood. 14 are Yankees, with many from Boston area. A separate item recalls a Chisago court scene where a mother, hearing her son sentenced to life, collapses crying my God you have murdered my son and fainting in tears.
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Critia
Boston
New England
Beaton Berald
Nan
Borrowed Brightness and Political Depravity in Oklahoma
A fragment from the Boston Herald recounts a boastful line on a short sentence lending a dollar. It notes a remark about a man’s depravity not fully revealed until he runs for office and references Oklahoma horse theft cases where lawyers seek harsher charges like murder.
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Oklahoma
Patchwork of quotes and local notices from old papers
A fragmented collage of literary snippets and remarks from various newspapers. It weaves playful lines, fashion notes, a plumber’s tale, and market chatter, highlighting costumes, prices, and cultural references in a snapshot style.
Notable Colonial Era Figures and Gossip From Boston and Chicago
In Boston Gen Butler drafts his autobiography at home while Gen Greely receives many crank letters about the weather. A Hooker iron bedstead is shipped to Libby Prison, and Blaine contemplates a cottage at Mosquito Point as Curtis recounts a wartime incident. Chicago pursues art leadership and a million dollar gallery with Marquand to guide a World’s Fair display. English society shows wit and snub in a Lenexa country house party etiquette tale from New York Sun.
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Chicago
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Asay
London
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New York
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Leneca
New York Sun
The Mystery of Jack the Ripper and Inherited Disease
A discussion on crime, insanity, and inherited disease links Jack the Ripper to psychological taint. The piece cites a French novelist and recounts a letter from James H. Dove praising Warner’s Safe Cure for kidney disease, arguing heredity influences genius and illness across sexes.
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Bright
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Aipang
Mich
Augnat Lith
Warner
Warners
Exclusive Chicago Socialites and Cold Refusals Revealed
A Chicago society portrait shows an aloof star who shuns acquaintances even at large receptions. A prominent wife greets her warmly and is rebuffed with a line about birth and education. Interwoven are snippets from witty exchanges with Italian Count and Mrs Wickwire, illustrating social hauteur and sharp exchanges in high society.
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Children beg for molasses in jar tale from Harper's Bazar
In a humorous snippet from Harper's Bazar a boy asks for twenty five cents of molasses, the keeper insists the jar is full and the money is at the bottom, while another boy declares he wants to become a minister to go to Europe someday.
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Brown
Europe
Harper’s Bazar
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