Pilgrims and First Thanksgiving Roles Across Cape Cod
John Dickinson Sherman summarizes the Pilgrims voyage to Cape Cod, the Mayflower and Speedwell, the signing of a compact at Cape Cod, and contrasts Pilgrims with Puritans. He notes Massasoit’s 1621 welcome, the first Thanksgiving and its evolution through Congress and Lincoln’s proclamation.
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John Dickinson Sherman
United States
England
Holland
Plymouth Rock
Plymouth
Mass
Cape Cod
Provincetown
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Gosnold
Som Robinson
Leiden
London
Virginia
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Cape Coad
Cod
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France
Ireland
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America
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Frenchmen Who Served America
The article highlights General Simon Bernard, a French engineer under Napoleon, chosen to fortify the Atlantic coast. It notes his plan for seaboard fortifications and internal waterway improvements, with Fort Monroe as a principal reminder and mentions long-term financial terms.
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United States
Simon Bernard
Napoleon
Bernard
Atlantic Coast
Enie
Biz Sorviers Gudty
Seaboard
Fort Monroe
Virginia
Speed limit fixa tion slows town speeders
In a folksy exchange the Boston Transcript notes a town that claims to have reduced motor speeders. The speaker says only a few arrests occur after enforcing a speed limit of 75 miles per hour and fixing punishments, reflecting local pride in lawfulness.
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Boston Transcript
Girts If singleness 'fe bit folly to be wives
A cryptic line notes that single life is better than marriage for some, reflecting a sentiment on courtship and gender roles in a historical figure or era. It reads as a brief social proverb or verse fragment embedded in a broader text.
Longest Lift Bridge Opens in Chicago for Railway Use
The world’s longest lift bridge, recently finished in Chicago, spans 300 feet for a railway line. It carries a balance weight near one million pounds and required two years to construct.
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Chicago
The Tarantula’s Trapdoor Lair Described in Detail
The tarantula, Deniza Californica, a trapdoor spider found in New Mexico Arizona and California, dies its hole with a hard dry surface resembling brick. Its burrow can reach one inch wide and two to three inches deep up to nearly a foot, with the mouth enlarged and closed by a thick corklike cover.
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Californica
New Mexico
Arizona
California
Kingsley
Footing the Pesta asks Smallholder to save fruit
The piece discusses how to protect fruit from birds with a practical approach. It suggests selling the orchard to avoid ongoing losses from depredation and deceit, noting that the birds will continue to damage crops elsewhere.
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Smallholder
Local Prose Snippets and Quips From an Era
A collection of humorous lines and facts noting gas from coal, eccentric geography, odd statistics, and social quips about price gouging and animal behavior. Reads as a miscellany of wry observations and speculative questions from a bygone era.
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Porto Rico
Cottom
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