Mean Man’s Turkey Theft Outwit by Honest Bill
In Sandtown Noah Wamkittle, famed for stinginess, plans to boost local turkey prices by theft. Bill Leggo guides him through woods to the Deacon Vandertassel’s, but sabotages the scheme. The traps reveal holes in Noah’s turkey houses and leave all birds gone. Bill then carts away the birds, while the town laughs at Noah’s loss.
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Noah Wamelittle
Deacon Vandertasmel
Noah Wamskittie
Nash Wamekittle
Deacon Vandertassel
Sandtown
Noah
Bill
Bull
Bill Leggo
Noah Wamekittle
Bandtown
Festival of Home Thanksgiving Reveres Family Ties and Memory
The article extols Thanksgiving as a time for family gathering, linking present and past, and guiding thoughts toward home. It emphasizes the festival’s religious roots, its broad appeal across beliefs, and its significance for college athletes, adults over forty, and those unable to join home circles.
The Unthankful Turkey Turns the Tables on Pride
A young turkey vies for the best grain and status, igniting his mother's warnings. He boasts of being the fattest and plans a trip, only to be captured for a Thanksgiving dinner. He learns too late that humility and restraint matter as his fate is sealed.
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Mother Turkey
Mamma Turkey
Farmers’ Institute
Farmers Union urges patient growth and better cotton handling
The letter extols the Farmers Co-Operative Union of America, notes continued union growth, and urges prudent land tax, diversification into fish ponds and trees, and more compact bale packing. It criticizes New York interests and Wall Street for controlling cotton prices while urging fair returns for farmers and self-reliant marketing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fort Worth
South
New York
Wall Street
Wall Stree
Farmers' Journal Joltings on Texas Tenants and Homes
The piece argues tenant farmers in Texas would join a covenant to veto candidates not backing affordable homes, criticizing land monopolies and urging legislative action for home ownership. It cites economic critique, co operative aims, and calls for reform to help renters become homeowners.
Drunkenness and Downfall in Ancient Nations
A lesson tracing intemperance from Ahaz and Samaria to the fall of Assyria and Babylon. It links drunken revelry to poverty disease degradation and spiritual death, citing biblical passages and historical parallels to show intemperance as a national destroyer and moral danger.
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Ahaz
Ahoz
Rome Place
Jerusalem
Judea
Isaiah
Judah
Benhadad
Samaria
Kingdom of
Israel
Ahab
Syria
Iisa
Ezek
Jude
Amos
Isa
Issa
Hos
Matt
United States
Elisha Harris
Assyria
Babylonia
Media
Cyrus
Babylon
Dan
Persia
Alexander
David Gregg
D. D
Salt a Luxury in Central Africa
Salt is described as the greatest luxury in Central Africa with scarcity among the poor and even the well off using it sparingly. The passage notes that salt consumption marks wealth and that children in salt-scarce tribes crave it like sugar. A humorous quote about marriage proposals closes the excerpt.
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Mother Nature
Central Africa
Life's Strungies and Victories in the Strenuous Life
A compact reflection on enduring life temptations and trials. The speaker urges perseverance through struggle and conflict, emphasizing Jesus Christ as the sole adequate help. Henry C. King.
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Jesus Christ
Henry c. King
Canary ancestry hints in Europe leading to peaceful songbirds
In Europe the canary lineage traces to Spain where Henry the navigator brought specimens in 1378 after a Canary Islands voyage. Elsewhere, an East Concord man unearthed a perfectly preserved apple buried three to four feet underground in lime during yard digging.
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Canaries
Europe
Spain
Henry
Canary Islands
East Concord
N. H
Church Denomination Membership Gains for 1905
Year books show Baptists and Congregationalists each with a 22.10 percent gain, Presbyterians 2 percent, and Methodist Episcopal Church 1.10 percent. Data reflects national church membership growth for 1905.
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Methodist Episcopal Church
How to Stop a Car Quickly When Driver Is Unfit
A veteran automobilist advises teaching the front seat companion to switch off ignition current if the driver is incapacitated. This simple action quickly stops the car and reduces potential damage from a car running wild.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Scientific American
London Open Air Meetings Pulpits Inspire Churches
London hosts five regular open-air pulpits with preaching that yields strong results. Other churches consider adding exterior pulpits to their buildings. It argues that dizziness comes from looking down on the less able to climb rather than ambition.
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London
Diamond soars past Paradise in a quiet rebuke
A reflective line offers metaphorical praise for a name that cannot be carved on gates of heaven or doors of paradise, suggesting enduring memory beyond material grandeur.
Sheedy to open New York picture gallery on West Thirty fourth
Patrick F Sheedy of Chicago plans a New York gallery on West Thirty fourth street featuring old and modern paintings from Jack Carr and other sources. The collection includes about a hundred works bought informally over the years and a famous Gainsborough recovery linked to Sheedy. He aims to educate buyers with staged rooms for study and color harmony and insists on informal purchase without legal risk.
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New York
Patrick F. Sheedy
Chicago
West Thirty-fourth Street
Jack” Carr
Copenhagen
Meyer von Bremen
Sheedy
Europe
Paris
Raisull
Gainsborough
Duchess of Devonshire
Pat Sheedy
American Professor Burgess Opens Berlin Roosevelt Course
Professor John W Burgess of Columbia University opened a lectureship at the University of Berlin titled The Constitution and Constitutional History of the United States. Emperor William and Empress attended with diplomats and about 50 professors and 400 students applauding as Burgess read a letter from President Roosevelt.
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John W. Burgess
Theodore Roosevelt
University of Berlin
Columbia University of New York
Roosevelt
Emperor William
Prince August Wilhelm
United States
Tower
Studt
John Wurgess
Burgess
Mall and Express Schedules From Jefferson Texas
Fragmented OCR shows multiple train times and line names such as Mall and Express and L&G Express with various numbers and agents. Entries list arrival and departure times around 1:33 pm to 2:30 pm and note local agents in Jefferson Texas.
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Tods. Veesevessics
Cannon
Laan
Cannon Mucchceaee
L&g.n. Express
Hazard
Jefferson
Texas
Sunday and church notices for Ilam and nearby congregations
Church directory lists Sunday School at 10 am and morning prayer at Ilam with communion first Sunday monthly. Guild meets monthly at 2 pm under Rev Chas T Coerr. Methodist preaching Sundays 1 and 7:30 pm by Rev T B Anderson. Sabbath School 10 am with L Schiuter as superintendent. Prayer meeting Wednesday 7:10 pm. Senator and Junior Leagues meet Thursdays 7:30 pm and Sundays for Women’s Missionary Society first Monday. Choir Saturdays 5 pm. First Baptist Church holds Sunday School at 9 am. preaching 11 am and 7:30 pm by J J Lewis and J H Rowell Jr. Prayer meeting Wednesdays 7:30 pm. Ald Society meets Mondays 2:30 pm. Presbyterian Church preaches Sabbath 9 am and 7 pm with prayer service Wednesdays 7:32 pm. Sabbath School at 9 am, G W Brown superintendent.
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Ilam
Maly
Guild
Chas T. Coerr
Methodiat Church
T. B Anderson
Schiuter
Senator League
Sunday Woman's Home Missionary d Society
J Pie
First Baptist Church
J. H. Rowell Jr
Moby J. & Lewis
Ald Nociety
Resbyterian Church
Svery Wed
B. R. Rives
Ne. m
G W. Brown
You Can Easily Operate This Typewriter Yourself
Guidance on using a typewriter for various tasks including letters abstracts insurance policies car memos and hotel menus. The wording emphasizes avoiding hand writing and portrays self sufficiency while noting readability concerns and appearance.
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Oliver
Oliver Typewriter CO
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World’s Temperance
Miss Passay
Miss Knox
Berlin
Dallas News
FT. Worth
Atlanta Journal
Sunny South
Holland's Magazine
Watson's Magazine
Atlanta Constitution
NEW Idea Magazine
Texas Farmers
Panhandle
the Panhandle
Denver
A.A. Glisson
Ft Worth
Tex
Sonsor
Setlecaoas Texan
Wabash Ave
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Chicago, Ill
Banner
E. P. Turner
Dallas
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