Thanksgiving through Puritan roots and Hawthorne memories
The piece traces the origin of Thanksgiving from Puritan practice and Hebrew festival origins to its national adoption by Washington and Lincoln, and notes how the holiday evolved through Civil War proclamations. It then evokes Hawthorne's New England scenes and Whittier vignettes, urging reverence for the Puritan legacy on Thanksgiving Day.
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United States
Pilgrim Church
England
New England
Tabernacles
Europe
Plymouth
Gov. Bradford
Ireland
Congress
Washington
Lincoln
Hester Prynne
Hawthorne
Hester
Mistress Hibbing
Salem
Old Colony
Pilgrims
Miles Standish
John Alden
Priscilla
John
Paul Revere
Middlesex
Whittier
Pilgrim Fathers
Sir Marvel
Steam plows boost Kansas wheat planting far beyond harvest
In western Kansas steam plows have transformed field work with about 250 outfits sold and 600 in use. They plow up to 30 acres daily, doubling labor efficiency versus traditional teams. Each unit costs about 1900 dollars, with plowing costs around 40 cents per acre. Large farmers own roughly half, thrashers the rest. Harvests require hundreds of temporary workers to manage the increased wheat area.
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Kansas City
Kansas
Kansas Plains
Wheat Belt
West
Guns at Coast Fortifications Too Vulnerable in Battle
Brig. Gen. William Crozier chief of ordnance says 12 inch coastal guns would last less than two hours in a fleet engagement as high velocity wear reduces rifling and armor penetration. He favors lower projectile speeds and a 14 inch gun that lasts longer, with powder factory plans awaiting site selection.
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Crozier
Washington
United States
William Crozier
Ordnance
War Department
Chief of Ordnance
Gen. Crozier
Taft Board
Endicott Board
Department
Army
Congress
Railroad Lines Grow Fast Across United States
New York reports 217 341 miles of completed railroad in 1906. Net mileage added in 1905 was 4 716 miles. Capital stock 6 741 956 826 dollars. bonded debt 7 425 261 901. Total liabilities 16 292 880 823. Road cost 12 143 997 551. traffic revenue 2 112 197 770. operating expenses 1 368 549 574. Passengers 754 446 641 carried 23 906 420 668 miles.
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New York
United States
Poor's Manum
Hornets Close Oklahoma Pharmacy Class Vacation
A swarm of hornets occupied the University of Oklahoma laboratory, forcing a vacation for the pharmacy class. Workers tried to drive them out as several men suffered stings. The door was closed and the room turned over to the hornets until burning sulphur ousted the visitors.
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Norman
Okla
University of Oklahoma
China Reforms Opium Taxation and Aims to Curb Use
China revises opium taxes to 116 Pekin taels per picus on crude opium and double on prepared opium. Growers taxed away. native opium production and imports rise, funding government revenue by over 4 million dollars yearly. A plan via imperial edict seeks to curb use, push poppy decline and eliminate opium in ten years.
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Washington
China
London Times
India
Hen on a Train Delivers Chickens from Arkansas to Missouri
A Plymouth Rock hen shipped from Lawrence County Arkansas to Horace Hand in Kirkwood laid a nest of 16 eggs on a train. At Imboden Arkansas six chicks hatched. en route to St. Louis the flock grew as the 16th chick was born, claiming a St. Louis identity by arrival.
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St. Louis
Kirkwood
Missouri
Arkansas
Horace E. Hand
George E. Dent
Lawrence County
Mr. Dent
Plymouth Rock
Imboden
Ark
Louis
Tower Grove
Saving Train: New Concord Student Receives $10 Reward
George Patterson, a Muskingua College student in New Concord Ohio, received a $10 check from the Baltimore and Ohio for saving 95 passengers after spotting a broken rail last June. He flagged an incoming train, averting a plunge over a high river embankment.
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New Concord
George Patterson
Muskingua College
Baltimore & Ohio
Patterson
Slaughter in the Ocean Across the Sea
A stark meditation on marine life describes the ocean as a vast slaughter-house where predators prey on the weak, with fish consuming one another and no place for vegetarians to survive in the sea.
Postmaster Courtright Named In Bloomington After Rivalry
James M. Courtright, appointed postmaster of Normal, Bloomington area, is father of ten children. He defeated rival C. S. Neeld after Roosevelt’s pick, with Neeld linked to Col. Warner and pension official Vespasian Warner. Normal post office pays $2,300 yearly and Courtright credits Roosevelt and large families.
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Bloomington
James M. Courtright
Normal
C. 8. Neeld
Roosevelt
Courtright
Neeld
Vespasian Warner
United States Commissioner
Pensions
Col. Warner
Household Tips and Recipes From an Old Domestic Column
A housekeeper fearing dishwashing gains ideas to ease the task with a 20 cent outfit including a dish chain soap shaker dish mop and sink scraper plus guidance to use news paper to grease-free dishes. The page then lists recipes for Canned Peach Puddings Vanilla Sauce Spiced Beef, Pumpkin Pie and Onion with Cream Sauce followed by a White Layer Cake recipe and instructions.
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Alice
Household Hints From Old Times
Stains should be soaked in glycerin then washed in cold water. A strong water and alum solution may extinguish flames quickly. Gruel should be almost cream thick and lump free. For ice cream pack the freezer with newspaper to slow melting. Move the blacking pot away to avoid smutting. Save splints from a broom to test cake. Varnish for glass from pulverized gum tragacanth in beaten egg whites. Apply with a brush carefully.
Baking Powder Rich Raisin Rolls From Old Recipe
Lift together three cups flour with six teaspoons baking powder and half a teaspoon galt. Work in one-third to one-half cup shortening, then mix with milk to form dough. Roll, cut into inch pieces, stand upright in a battered baking tin and bake twenty minutes.
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Fame
Mark Twain
Stereograph
Underwood & Underwood
N. Y
New York City
Army Ordnance
Philippine Islands
Hornets
Man
Hue
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