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Newspaper
Oak Park Vindicator
Location
Oak Park, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Nov 22, 1895
Page
5
Mrs Greenough jokes about marriage as Lizzie Brown prepares to wed, while ten local women refuse to respond to her ad. A world of notices unfolds from a window view as Kitty seeks short sewing work from Luke and his mother, amid bustling domestic chatter.
Kitty Greenough helps a disabled seamstress named Tom, a girl hidden behind the name Mrs. Graham, learn to walk again in spirit through a Thanksgiving outing. Luke carries Tom home, while Kitty and her mother share a moral lesson on kindness and perception.
Polly watches Bridget cook a Thanksgiving turkey with fragrant spices. She yearns to help and waits as Bridget demonstrates how to baste with juice poured over the turkey. Polly then prepares with a silver thimble and a long needle and thread.
Susie leads a playful Thanksgiving class with Carrie as head and Tommy as foot. Children name things they’re thankful for and raise fingers, but Tommy cheats by feigning illness to win a joke ending as dinner calls and he reports grandpa is “dead” in the class.
A reflective verse praising resilience amid hunger and loss. The speaker asks what to say of sorrow and notes gratitude for earthly gifts and spiritual growth. The poem acknowledges new stars of hope rising within hardship and thanks God for the harvest of the heart.
On November 25 1783 British troops left New York completing the peace. The Paris treaty recognized American independence and cleared Florida to Spain while redefining western territorial bounds and Newfoundland fisheries rights. Sir Guy Carleton sailed away as the British left the harbor. The era of independence was recognized among nations. The text ends with a quip about St Peter and a joke involving Roosevelt.
A nostalgic article on Thanksgiving fare recounts roast turkey with forcemeat stuffing, chicken pie with veal broth, oysters in butter, and cranberry sauce. It cites Mrs. Madison’s raising cake, old English influences, and the old colony tradition, ending with a note on American table novelties like celery sticks served on ice.
Poem excerpt by John Greenleaf Whittier laments those who crave distant delicacies while praising the generous home feast and native abundance on Thanksgiving Day.
A Georgia tale describes an overrun marsh where many possums allow deadly night drives with a stick while a wagon of possums is the punch line. The note adds Mary Hall as the first woman lawyer in Connecticut, estimated at about forty and unmarried.
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