The Trail of the Dead Chapter XIV to XVI
Plot advances with Dr Weston and Miss Weston as danger escalates. Sir Henry Graden and the narrator pursue Cantab’s identity in London, then travel to Polleven to confront the assailant at Weston’s Cornish cottage. Graden rescues the professor. Miss Weston foils the killer’s cliffside plan and reveals his location.
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Marnac
Poland
Henry Graden
Berlin
Jerrold
The
University Review
Rolles
Cantab
Heidelberg
Mr. Rolles
Sir Henry
Bow Street
Athenaeum
Raeburn
Cambridge
Henry
Dr. Weston
Regius
Polleven
Cornish
Bradshaw
Paddington
Graden
Father
Thunder People and the Sound of Battle Echoes
An Atlanta Constitution piece quotes Brother Williams describing the thunder as powerful in origin yet turning into distant hollers and whoops after the fighting ends. The bright metaphor contrasts force with aftermath and human perception.
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Thunder People
Brother Williams
aAtlanta Constitution
Humorous Auction Floor Banter In A Garage Scene
A playful overheard exchange in a garage features a polite demonstrator describing an automobile with compartments for knives and forks and a two person machine labeled as a spoon holder. Mrs Brown chides a rug buyer Missa Dollars who admits paying full price to an amiable smiling auctioneer.
How He Got Square on His Birthday Cigar Revenge
A man recounts a birthday joke where his wife gave him cigars. He claims he got even by smoking them in the parlor where she had just hung new curtains. His neighbor asks how he managed it.
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Pall Mall
Covent Garden
University
Bailies
Homer
Origin of Thanksgiving Day in American history
The piece traces Thanksgiving from 1631 Plymouth scarcity to a national holiday. It notes early fasting and prayer turning to feasts, Washington and Lincoln proclamations, and the rise of autumn thanksgiving across New England states leading to a presidential Proclamation and a legal holiday enjoyed nationwide.
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United States
Massachusetts Bay
Washington
Lincoln
New England
Union
America
Peter and the Barnyard Turkey Threat on Thanksgiving
In a bedtime tale Peter faces Barnyard Turkey who accuses him of greed and vows to gobble him. The crowing turkey grows huge and bursts the walls as Peter awakens frightened, realizing turkey danger.
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Peter
Fibber
Martha Wheeler Delivers Milk on Snowy Thanksgiving
On a snow filled Thanksgiving Martha Wheeler bravely peddles milk to village homes. She aids Miss Webster after an accident, earns grateful pay and a doctor visit, then returns home to a celebratory feast and a turkey gift from grateful neighbors.
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Martha
Miss Webster
Timmy
Dr. Brown
Wheeler Farm
Miss
A Boy's Thanksgiving Menu and a Widow's Recipe Toast
A fragment discusses Thanksgiving preparations with a turkey dressing recipe using stale bread and oyster stuffing notes. It includes a comic exchange about a conceited fellow and a boy’s imagined multi course Thanksgiving menu listing pies and desserts.
Respect for Gray Hair Feathers Humorous Boarder Roast
A Cleveland Plain Dealer humor piece recounts a boarder praising gray hair while mockingly rejecting gray feathers as he claws at a tough fragment of turkey. The landlady notes the exchange, highlighting a comic clash over appearances and taste at the table.
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Jellaby
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Calling Day social customs of mid century society
In the middle of last century it was fashionable to make calls on Thanksgiving and New Year. Society folk dined at noon and then held receptions, a trend rivaling other holiday entertaining traditions.
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Mademoiselle
Toulouse
I.c. Dear
Jabem All
Antonia J. Stemple
Mr. Wheeler
Mrs. Wheeler
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Grafton
Mrs. Judson
Mrs. Morton
Gobbler
Dr. Quack
Uncle Sam
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