26 Nov 1920
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Newspaper
Saint Johns Review
Location
Saint Johns, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Nov 26, 1920
Page
1
The article traces Thanksgiving origins from pre Reformation May customs to Pilgrim harvests in Plymouth. It notes early observances in Massachusetts, Washington and Lincoln proclamations, and describes an imagined homey feast with turkeys and fixings. The piece ends with a playful kitchen vignette.
The piece contemplates the Thanksgiving mood as the year ends with work done. It honors returning men as symbols of national courage and salutes mothers for endurance and devotion, recognizing their fortitude in hard times.
The readable fragments mix a religious exhortation about gratitude with a bank balance sheet snippet. It mentions capital stock, circulating dates, deposits, and time deposits, alongside a faint hymn-like prayer praising God and the nation. The juxtaposition suggests a faded page combining a devotional verse and financial figures.
A garbled OCR snippet references accents and a home with Brimley and a phrase about old white and a Srihodland GHltanta Farm. It hints at counting brewings and a daily Thanlagiving, with no clear events or names. The readable parts point to a fragmented, timeworn prose segment.
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