Pumpkin Lark Behind Widow Gray Thanksgiving Plan
A plan by six local boys to surprise Widow Gray by staging a Thanksgiving feast in her honor. They prepare carved pumpkins as dishes and set a torchlit procession to her cottage, with turkey, pies, doughnuts, and tea as the centerpiece.
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Bill
Widow Gray
Maitland
Tom Gray
Tom
Squire Piske
Squire Fiske
Joe
Will
Menalow
Mr. Emery
Joe Emery
Will Somerby
Friends of
Ars. Gray
B.P
Let Us Be Thankful From Hamlet and City
Agnes IW Kincaid presents a tribute poem inviting family members to come home for Thanksgiving. The speaker references “the boys and girls,” a judge, and a learned divine, celebrating family reunion and a softened world outside. The poem calls to open doors to welcome dear ones.
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Agnes
Kincaid
Thanksgiving Talk and a Dog’s Dark Joke
A wife questions why people attend football games on Thanksgiving Day while another insists the sport embodies gratitude for not being on the field. The tale ties to a girl who locked the dog in a dark closet so the animal would feel thankful upon release after the family returned from church.
Turkey Humor Exchange From 1920s Cartoon Panel
A brief cartoon dialogue shows Old Turkey asking if the youngster plans to do anything this year and the Young Turkey replies satisfaction lies in staying ahead until after Thanksgiving.
Thanksgiving Poem Excerpt by Will Carleton
Poem praising divine mercy and gratitude. Verses praise blessings from Thee Father and the hope of eternity. References to harmony of life, charity, and future days with faith guiding through sorrow and joy.
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Father
Thanksgiving Gratitude And The Value Of Holidays
A reflective editorial urges true gratitude for Thanksgiving and national holidays. It cites Puritan hardships, the first feast, and the need to appreciate comfort and kindness in daily life. It reminds readers to heed the sentiment and be genuinely glad for books, flowers, music, family, friends, and children’s words.
Love’s Service and the Call to Share Comfort
The piece argues Christians must bear others’ burdens through kindness not money, offering friendship and sympathy as “the wine of love.” It calls readers to light the lamp of happiness for others and to die to selfishness, viewing believers as almoners delivering relief in Christ’s name.
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The
Christian Herald
Teddy's Thanksgiving Birthday Child Sits With Family
A nostalgic verse celebrates Teddy's first birthday on Thanksgiving Day. The family's festive gathering fills the home as Teddy, in his best dress, sits in a high chair and shares bread and milk with relatives arriving from near and far to give thanks.
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Teddy
Mamma
Bicycle Recovered After Harbor Sinking in Bermuda
In Bermuda, a swift bicyclist’s ride ends when his wheel vanishes before a race. Fourteen months later a fisherman reels up a bicycle from St George’s harbor, largely undamaged. Ties emerge linking the theft to a neighbor whose dogs harassed the rider, suggesting revenge.
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Bermuda
Boston Transcript
St. George’s Harbor
Escans
Saving Three Lives By Sea Brave Rescue At Undertow
A man and two women, all strong swimmers, faced a deadly undertow and cooperated to reach shore. The rescuer signaled distress and swam to safety as his companions urged him on with encouragement, highlighting courage and the pull of the era's "eternal womanly" duty.
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Hoston Transcript
Beth
Stuttering man recalls uphill climb in tall buildings
A stuttering man told a friend yesterday that he often had to ride from the top floors to the ground floor of the tallest office buildings. By the time he could say Down! the elevator was usually four or five floors below him.
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New York Times
Umbrella Brings Outrageous Spending Joke
A Cleveland Plain Dealer quip notes Beasley as the most extravagantly reckless man merely for buying an umbrella, illustrating a humorous take on frugality vs. luxury with a punning exchange.
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Beasley
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Mrs Gaswell Quips On Husband Smoking Habit
In a light Chicago Tribune column a reader jokes about Mrs Gaswell noting her husband’s growing habit of smoking and a neighbor finding humor in the pace of his habit.
The Greatest Clothing Sale in Omaha at 1415 Douglas
Omaha Reciver's Store promotes a grand sale with LH200 suits and 84 suits at $2.00, men's overcoats at 3.50, urging customers to call in and see the goods at 1415 Douglas. Street corner listing supports the event as a major public offer.
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Omaha
Douglas
Letith
Sarre
Ginger wafers and other home remedies in pocket of old pages
Irregular clipping describes ginger wafers with butter sugar and flour method and lemon zest. It mentions syrup of figs from California Fig Syrup Company and a Copper toned note on Mrs McKKinley collecting badges and Dr Kay’s renovator claims. The Atlantic Monthly plans Masters of American Literature features and reviews of younger authors.
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Nake
California Fig Syrup Company
Atlantic Monthly
Irving
Cooper
Bryant
Sawthorne
Emerson
Longfellow
Ienry B. Fuller
James Lane Allen
Harold Frederick
Woodrow Wilson
Merchants Hotel Omaha and streetcar routes noted
The fragment mentions Merchants Hotel in Omaha run by Panton & Davenport with three meals daily, plus streetcars passing the door near depots in the city center. It also references a Toronto Methodist clergyman receiving a peculiar letter about a plantleaf from a dead wife’s grave and a bridal dress sample, as cited by the New York Sun.
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Panton & Davenport
Toronto
Hkev
J. Odery
Fraudulent Patent Medicine and Tobacco Ads Prominently Featured
An assortment of deceptive endorsements promotes Wall's Starrh Cure and No-To-None remedies, urging purchases from Toledo druggists. The items claim cures and life improvements, with testimonials and offers for free booklets. The page also includes tobacco cessation pitches and assorted self-help lines.
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New York
Telegraphing Through Space to Fastnet Lighthouse
The article reports a new continuous telegraph system between the mainland and Fastnet lighthouse off the southwest coast of Ireland. It avoids the prior cable chafing on exposed rocks, sending currents through water to two bare wires dipping into the sea, enabling reliable shore to lighthouse communication.
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Fastnet
Ireland
Wise in Their Generations Highlight Bitters Efficacy
The article notes a class of scientists praising Hostetter's Stomach Bitters as a remedy and preventive for fever and ague rheumatism weakness and other ailments. It states experience and public verdict support its value and urges readers to recognize its benefits amidst general ignorance of America’s remedies.
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America
Life preservers kept on ships for recovery aid
A traveler asked a Lake Superior steamer captain why life-preservers were carried in cold water. The captain replied that corks help recover bodies, noting the depth and coldness make survival unlikely.
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Lalkte Superior
Lake Superior
To Cure a Cold in One Day Trademark Ad
An advertisement promotes Luxative Bromo Quinine Tablets claiming to cure a cold in one day. It offers a full refund by druggists if the remedy fails to cure. The price listed is 25e.
A Nussina Reminiscence and Arditi Tales
A reminiscence recalls Rossini complimenting Arditi after the kiss motif and Arditi’s kindness being met with Rossini offering a wig as a souvenir. The piece also mentions Cascarets and a proverb about a poor man with sunny spirit extracting more than a wealthy grumbler.
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Ufe
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