Thanksgiving clashes mark Washingtons first national feast
A long account recalls the 1789 first national Thanksgiving proclaimed by Washington, sparked by Hamilton and opposed by Jefferson. The day featured a New York parade, a Faunce tavern banquet, a broken nose, a turkey dispute, and a college gossip of cabinet friction in early American history.
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Alexander Hamilton
Washington
Treasury
Elias Boudinot
New England
House of Representatives
Roger Sherman
Connecticut
Congress
New York
National
Federal Hall
Jefferson
United States
Hamilton
Franklin Square
Boston
Philadelphia
Faunce
Lieut
St. Clair
Tisdal
John Adams
Alderman
Leutenant
Turkey
Thanksgiving Gift Pies and Festive Toymaker Prizes
The article describes Thanksgiving party fun with gift pies and a host of surprises. It notes pie shaped baskets as a popular centerpiece and mingles playful tales of Washington and Hamilton with a brief historical aside on the first Thanksgiving proclamation dating to January 1, 1795.
Thanksgiving Dinner in the Philippines Reverent Feast
A Thanksgiving dinner unfolds in an old stone hacienda near Manila with roses vines and jasmine as guests and a blend of American and Filipino dishes. Jim the colonel's helper and a Chinese cook share kitchen duties while locals joke about canned beef and locust cake dessert. The meal features a grand olla podrida a fish dish and a desert pie shaped as a treasure basket with hidden gifts, and Senorita Paciencia entertains guests amid a candlelit blue haze of cigars.
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Philippines
Jim
Muchacho
Manila
United States Army
Pacific
Spain
John the Baptist
New England
Why Do Little Boys Eat More At Thanksgiving
A reader questions why children, including boys, seem to eat far more food than adults on Thanksgiving Day. The note seeks an explanation for this curious appetite observed among strangers and family alike.
New Naval Code in Force Lets Marriages Be Kept Secret
The New York Herald reports a code by Lieutenant Commander David F Sellers detailing 4400 five letter expressions for naval life. It covers betrothals elopements and secret marriages with terms like texud meaning married secretly and tejak meaning will not consent to the marriage. The code also allows terse messaging for tasks such as boat races and signaling financial requests from wives to absent husbands.
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David F. Sellers
Ture
Sellers
Texud
Army Ad Navy
Thanksgiving Day Verse Roundup
A short poem about Thanksgiving focusing on grateful children and cheerful families. It contrasts two hands at work and play with a loving heart, and describes sunshine and cheerful manners brightening a cloudy day.
Bryn Mawr President Denounces Hazing At Open
President Thomas hailed the college's hazing end as the blot on the shield removed and noted the Self Government Association will enforce the halt in hazing at Bryn Mawr this year.
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Thomas
Bryn Mawr
Airship Destroyer Gun by Krupp for Balloon Warfare
Berlin reports Germany develops a mobile high velocity airship destroyer cannon designed to attack balloons. The Krupp vehicle, shown at the Frankfurt aero show, moves quickly, fires projectiles with internal ignited burnables, and emits smoke for tracking.
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Berlin
Germany
Krupp
Frankfort
Senta
Daniel Webster's Carriage at Marshfield Draws Historic Visitors
Walton Hall of Boston owns the Webster carriage once used by the statesman and hosts visitors who tour the relic. The coach carried presidents, governors, and dignitaries to Marshfield cemetery where Josiah Winslow Peregrine White and Adeline Phillips are interred. Also noted are aeroplane advances and C E Akeley's Africa expedition plans for the American Museum.
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Boston
Walton Thall
Daniel Webster
Marshfield
Mass
Webster
Hall
New England
Adeline Phillips
Webster Estate
C. E. Akeley
New York
British East Africa
American Museum
American Museum Journal
Manitoba
Hawkatchowin
Alberta
Wontorn Onnatta
Anil
Gomnasinntow
Bor
Ottawa
Wroughton
Quinny Widy
Ba Floor
Traction Teretarial
Indiweepollay Uoos
YHO
Milwauhoo
Wine
Lydia E Pinkham Vegetable Compound Praised by Woman
Vienna West Virginia resident credits Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with a decade of relief after doctor visits failed. The letter extols cures for female ailments, urges others to try the product, and notes free advice from Mrs Pinkham in Lynn Massachusetts.
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Vienna
W. Va
Lydia
Pinkham
Lydia i. Pinkham
Lydia Im. Dinkham
Aoa
Withaton
Lydia i. Winkhan
Pinkham Laboratory
Lynn
Mags
Lydia HE. Pinkham
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Secretary of the Treasury
Senorita Paciencia
Senorita Padencia
Resoloztlow Selteng Asso
New York Herald
England
New York Press
Lydia E. Pinkham
Carters
Pthite Refuse Substi
Tutes
Western
Canada
Deneen
Allnals
Keatabewan
Liberal Combussion
Hole Agency
Men & Women Magazine
Cincinnati
Alfred Pents
Alfred Peata Co
Wabash Ave
Chicago
UR .Alton
al St.Paul
Minn
American Fence Post Co
Buarritt Arcade
Kansas City
Watson E. Coleman
Washington, D.C
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