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Newspaper
Paris Post
Location
Paris, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Nov 24, 1927
Page
7
Community notices list Elmer Wilcox visiting Montpelier and Mrs. Jesse Schuldig ger and daughter Doris visiting relatives there. Local sales, ads, and shop window trims headline holiday commerce as Bishop Gambling, H C Schuppel, and other residents conduct errands and meetings.
Cattle buyers from Utah and Idaho registered at Hotel Paris. Local residents report on ill health, reassurances of County Assessor Leslie Cole’s return, and daily social visits. Montpelier and Paris residents attend bridge, stake meetings, and visits to relatives with several trips to nearby towns.
Henry and Ezra Howell, prominent farmers of Fish Haven, were county seat visitors Friday. Hills. Straw of Montpelier, local manager of the CW and M Co, was a business visitor in town Friday. Frank Brown of Liberty was in town Friday on business. Ben P Hymas of Liberty and Ray Nixon of Montpelier, salesman for Shupe Williams Candy Company, were in town Friday soliciting Christmas candy orders from merchants.
Gas and Well Sir Walter Scott, noted author and president of the Edinburgh Gas Light Co, allegedly stockpiled a side line in gas retail per Gaz Logic. Critics of Scott’s era would have mentioned such a venture if slang terms existed then.
The article reflects on Thanksgiving as an American tradition rooted in pioneer gratitude. It portrays the day as a primary act of worship, acknowledging a higher power guiding life and fortunes, and fostering unselfish, generous charity toward others.
A reflection by Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes compares a thankful heart to a magnet that reveals blessings hidden in daily life. The unthankful heart finds no mercies, while a grateful outlook discovers heavenly blessings in every hour. The passage uses sand and iron as metaphors for perception.
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