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Newspaper
Lanark Gazette
Location
Lanark, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Nov 23, 1892
Page
6
A mother recalls past Thanksgivings with a table for twenty now set for two as her children scatter to Dakota, San Francisco, and abroad. She longs for letters, near children, and the joy of a full nursery of bairns, cherishing the memory of their welcome voices and the hush of a crowded home.
A mother laments losing her sons to work and military service as they seek money and steadiness away from home. She longs for a full Thanksgiving reunion, acknowledging Scripture yet fearing loss, while letters arrive and hope rises that all children will return for a shared feast.
A Detroit Free Press reader recounts a family quarrel over Thanksgiving dinner and a child named May whose quiet plea for a simple celebration becomes the turning point. The narrator resolves to honor May by choosing Thanksgiving Day, honoring memory of the beloved girl and easing the household.
Was Thanks giving eve Mrs. Jones welcomes Brice Bellingham to her country home. The visiting nephew is hailed as a promising social figure, while Pelton Falls offers limited opportunity to display him. Aunt Jones seeks ways to introduce him to the newly settled and reportedly wealthy Robinson family, amid a scenic approach past the village and its white spire.
Brice Bellingham visits the grandiose mansion and the nearby cottage of Miss Alicia Brown, where a charity basket sparks cunning social plotting. Mrs. Jones aims to bridge rivalries by dinner invites while Brice’s fluttering romance hopes begin amid Thanksgiving preparations and neighborly tensions.
A collection of Christmas season anecdotes and sermons from early American towns. A note on Missives and mistaken deliveries trigger humility and reconciliation in Felton Falls. Brice Bellingham reflects on family ties while a widow learns the cost of quarrels. A western congressman recalls his first Thanksgiving coin and gratitude for small gifts. Colchester records a 1705 delay to Thanksgiving due to molasses and sloop timetables, a Providence joke on convenience. A master contemplates keeping the fat turkey for Christmas, while a thinner bird looms as fate.
A Chicago Tribune report describes linemen on a tall city roof detailing methods to string wires across streets and the risks of tapping telegraph and telephone lines. It cites secret techniques, guard distractions, and cases of hidden wire networks used to monitor or intercept communications.
The article discusses goldenrod as a hallmark of autumn yet notes its sprays have been blooming in meadows since July. It remarks on the unusual early appearance of this autumn flower and contrasts it with typical seasonal timing, reflecting on its ornamental role and timing.
A Youth’s Companion account describes Southern prison camps where salt pork was common and a clever inmate named George Smith killed pigs via a barrel trap. He cooked and ate fresh pork daily for three months, using improvised ovens and loud hammering to mask squeals while guards moved nearby.
The piece traces Marie Louise after Napoleon's fall, her marriage to Parma, and later to a third husband, with the king of Rome degraded to duke of Reichstadt. It notes his astonishment at the new title, his sense of exile, and his military learning as he grows from prince to officer, while interweaving a second excerpt on Maine ministers and their tenure in the state. The closing lines reflect on acting and memory.
A small-town father funds one son’s college to uplift the rest. The graduate returns home puffing cigarettes and donning new fashions. The father denounces the change and, after a clash, the educated son is banished, leaving the family to question the expense.
The piece argues that progress comes only through effort not waiting. It likens striving to nature’s processes like seed pushing to sun, ore mined, and diamonds forged. It cites training, discipline, and endurance as keys to success and asserts the line They also serve who only stand and wait refers to patient effort as the hardest form of struggle. Detroit Free Press.
The narrator jokes about a trip across Europe hosting a hoard of mementos from famous sites. He claims to have borrowed gold fringe from an emperor’s throne in Berlin a door knob from the Vatican a piece of a statue in Italy and a chip from Shakespeare’s tomb boasting he would not take a thousand dollars for the relics
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