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Newspaper
Semi Weekly Reporter
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1907
Page
8
A nostalgic verse recounts a couple’s Thanksgiving memories from youth, from shared dinners to dances and playful requests for marriage. It traces a lifelong love through Christmas feasts, future vows, and aging hands, ending with a tender wish for rest together in death.
A narrator recalls a Boston meeting house scene on a mid November Sunday many years ago. The young minister reads the governor's proclamation while a child sits with his mother as the idea of Thanksgiving and Independence Day intertwines. Governor Levi Lincoln and Secretary Edward D Bangs appear in the reflective account.
The article extols Sarah Bernhardt as the greatest living actress and a dominant figure, noting her rare public appearances due to teaching dramatic art at the Paris Conservatoire. It also references a photograph cut showing a Chinese law system from Kalongfu with Semitic-origin individuals among the population.
A curious tale portrays Count Laszlo Szechany in a Hungarian reserve lieutenant uniform. He is described as the heir of Miss Gladys Vanderbilt, daughter of the late Cornelius Vanderbilt, with a fortune of about $12,000,000. The narrative paints him as a wealthy suitor amid a comic romance.
An OCR fragment presents diverse notes on language, a hospital or asylum list, and stray facts. It mentions Colney Hatch and Prestwich institutions, rabbit sound, India gospel workers, Italian convicts, a Paris race of one legged men, English food expenditure, and a German empress as a tennis player. The text is garbled and non cohesive, containing partial facts and stray opinions.
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