29 Nov 1900
Page 1
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Newspaper
Sumner Press
Location
Sumner, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Nov 29, 1900
Page
1
A garbled column surveys diverse items from 19th century affairs including labor in Germany, beehive drones, a mint planned in Canada, Vesuvian maps, Salina Kansas fracas over a bogus forty dollar bill, a Boston pastor declining a raise, cabinet stability in Pierce era, French Algeria finds, and royal charity administration in Russia, with notes on railroads aiding Galveston relief and local legal disputes over bees and peaches.
On a Thanksgiving morning a late train strands Zoe Freeman and Leon Bartley at a lonely station amid brown fields. They recall past vows, share a makeshift meal from store scraps, and face an unconventional proposal as sleet falls and a future trembles between separation and possible marriage.
The piece reflects on how Thanksgiving began as a religious family practice and became a national custom. It emphasizes gratitude as a natural, enriching virtue, linking harvests, public observance, and benevolence to the Christian idea of freedom and civilization. It urges thanks to God for blessings and the moral uplift of gratitude.
Poem recounts hunger and hardship in a Plymouth setting. A blue eyed woman named Patience prays for sustenance as four Pale Indians enter with deer to feed the starving town. The verses evoke cold hunger, icy winds, and a hopeful delivery of relief.
The article lists a Thanksgiving menu including Ossiera Cream of Game Red Snapper a Micabenas Tenderloin Pique a la Provencale and more. It describes Thanksgiving Eve to Monday gatherings at country mansions with 25 to 30 guests, wardrobes for girls, and days filled with sports and evenings of singing and music. It notes servants have a separate midday dinner and describes servant arrangements at stea t houses in New York. It ends with a Cowper quote about freedom.
A crowded column of aphorisms and idle observations from the Indianapolis News and Atchison Globe, noting summer sun shortcuts, winter winds, social slips, doctors as pallbearers, worms in fruit, and the curious fortunes of youth, middle age, and elders as they listen to ghost stories.
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