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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Nov 30, 1888
Page
2
A fragmentary religious tale recounts a boy presenting a turkey to a pastor during a communal meal. The pastor accepts the fowl with a playful exchange about teachers and masters, ending with the boy gifting the dish to the cook.
A narrator recalls a November Battery Park scene on Thanksgiving day. A starving Cornish miner named George Moore begs for a cent and tells of wife Nellie and child lost to illness, then shares how poverty drove him to wandering and begging. The encounter ends with a small act of kindness over a modest meal.
A recovered tramp recalls a past kindness from LT on Thanksgiving Day in Hattery Park. The silver quarter transformed his life by funding a new start as a grocery clerk, with the jingle of the coin evoking family memories and home. He notes such giving to beggars remains problematic.
A quirky holiday column offers playful guidance for Thanksgiving behavior. It warns against surliness, hogging white meat, and vows to celebrate generosity, table manners, and pie sharing. The piece ends with old fashioned wit about turkey and family, referencing a whimsical line from Slarper's Bazar.
A Brookyn observer describes Thanksgiving Day as a local heathen festival where children parade in masks demand pennies from passersby and stage loud revelry with bonfires and drums. The piece links the custom to historic European and colonial practices, noting it thrives mainly in Brooklyn.
Two boarders discuss Thanksgiving plans and fear a lean feast as last year’s small crowd led the landlady to skip a large dinner. They conclude she can’t afford a big spread this year either and wander to a lunch counter.
A rural parish clergy member is honored at Thanksgiving with a large market turkey that hangs by the door. The small family eats in turn until the minister's son, after repeatedly taking more, says he will eat so much so his parents will not have to say grace over that old turkey again.
A 1878 prize turkey from Orange County, hung in Washington market, reappeared yearly as a frozen marvel in cold storage. Reported by a New York reporter, the bird defied buyers until its fate remained unknown at press time.
A portrait of a famous author hosting Thanksgiving at a country house while melancholic reminiscence and a poem from the past haunt him. An impoverished memory of a first love on a garret hillside contrasts with the present wealth as a gray haired man on a nearby street recalls similar poverty.
The article honors locomotive engineers and firemen as rail heroes reflecting skill nerve and quick judgment. It outlines essential traits for success including calm decision making under danger and the balance between swift action and personal safety amid risks from wrecks washouts and collapsing bridges.
A long extract surveys eating habits and health among elderly in New England and St. Petersburg transit culture. It notes regular meat, vegetables, pastries, tea and coffee use, tobacco in both sexes, varying illness, and high life longevity with few illnesses. It also touches on Russians using droschies in streets and a New York Independence Day ceremony.
A St Petersburg correspondent reports on the 1831 mound known as The Hillock of the Brave where a Scythian king, his wife, war horse, and servant were buried. The king’s undecayed cypress sarcophagus, gilded ornaments, gold shield bars, and silver heralds staves survive, with a 1866 discovered priestess of Ceres tomb yielding exquisite gold jewelry surpassing Venice or Florence.
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