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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Nov 28, 1890
Page
8
A reflective verse contrasts Thanksgiving as a single day for gratitude with the rest of the year filled by constant grumbling. It laments the eternal pursuit of the perfect turkey and ideal measure, hoping for a future where all growling ends and thanksgiving endures beyond one day.
Bernice Hunter schemes to marry wealth to lift her status while Will Thursby pretends poverty then reveals a hidden fortune. Howard Atherling marries a bride from outside Merriweather Place, testing family pride and social rules during Thanksgiving week.
A poem by Helen Chase of BLCOME celebrates Thanksgiving as a grand, enduring feast. It contrasts gray skies and leafless trees with homesick warmth and distant gathering, praising altar fires of home and the welcome of kin from sea to mountain. Orchard boughs shed gold and green, fields rest, and the land glows with a new Thanksgiving Day.
A playful poem imagines a Turkey facing a humorous fate by 5 p m on Thanksgiving Day. It contrasts a ceremonial feast with a transformed carcass and bones in a comic, tongue in cheek tone.
Immense land transformed to cranberry fields around Berlin in Green Lake County. Winnebago and other tribes join harvest from September. pickers earn 1.40 to 3.00 daily, with German and Polish workers forming the bulk. Crowded camps, dances, and markets shape the season ending with Thanksgiving table thoughts.
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