30 Nov 1905
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Newspaper
Mathews Journal
Location
Mathews, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Nov 30, 1905
Page
1
A garbled excerpt surveys virtue and vice with aphorisms on diligence happiness and truth. It touches on readers preachers gossip personal conduct misused signs of fame and a women’s sanitarium with a distorted museum display of female dipsomaniacs and a grotesque exhibit.
Poem venerates the year's pageant and nature's beauty with thanks for blue skies waters birds and life. It frames gratitude as a spiritual response to creation and happiness beyond the hero.
Shrimp and Tadpole debate donations for a Thanksgiving dinner amid a football game plan. Shrimp, rising from poverty, collects a turkey and gifts for a widowed family, visiting a store, joining the parade with a horn and badge, and learning of a classmate's burden before joining friends for reserved seats at the game.
A fragment from Annie H. Donnell in Youth's Companion describes Jeffy and a turkey wish game. Jeffy claims to have wished that his wish would come true, leading to a string of playful mishaps and a single bo one ending.
A quoted line reflects gratitude in the present tense about wealth and work, followed by a past reflection on gratitude during youth. The excerpt contrasts future wealth with earlier strength, emphasizing enduring appreciation rather than future promises.
Choose birds with white flesh and fat and smooth black legs in youth. Hang them long for freshness. cold weather keeps a fortnight. Roast one and a half to two hours, baste with butter, cover breast with buttered paper or bacon until halfway done, then finish. Make gravy from giblets and gravy beef, thicken with flour, and serve with mushrooms or sausages. Stuff with chestnut forcemeat or truffles or mushrooms and sauce.
A short verse expresses gratitude to God for three blessings: vision to see, an open door to the soul, and hearing joy in friends, birds, and harmonies. The speaker praises a heart made loving and understanding, reading beauty and eternity in life.
A historical recipe describes a light bread sponge cake using three cups flour two cups sugar one cup butter three eggs and milk with soda currants raisins citron and no added flour. The mix is kneaded by hand and raised until light then baked in a moderate oven.
A young woman on West 64th Street near Columbus Avenue knelt and leapt before an approaching Sixth Avenue train, perishing instantly as onlookers screamed and bystanders aided fainting bystanders. The scene drew shoppers away from the station as the southbound train halted after the first car passed.
In Lawrence Massachusetts a fire in St Anne’s parish school endangers 400 girls. Twenty five students on the third floor are dropped by nets from windows to safety as firemen rescue them. Sister Mary and 25 pupils escape with smoke and fright. The overheated furnace caused the blaze and the building suffers only slight damage.
Washington special reports President Roosevelt will oppose issuing the Canal Car and its reorganization. Rep Map announces intent to introduce a bill to abolish the body and the President’s support remains uncertain.
Dispatch from Constantinople reports after a second ministers meeting that Turkey will accept the demands of the Powers with a limited reserve. The change seeks to modify the Powers’ control over the final fate of Macedonia while preserving Turkish prestige.
The naval board of construction weighs general board recommendations for a naval program. Henry White is named U.S. representative at the Morocco conference. Aloysius E Bowling dies in Bryanton Maryland. A pension claim of 9348 is filed for a patient at St Elizabeths Asylum. A new executive order threatens swift dismissal for government misconduct.
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