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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 29, 1899
Page
2
An old Thanksgiving tale blends colonial gratitude with a Missouri kin visit interrupted by a flood’s wreck. Aunt Sarah opens her home to strangers driven from Watertown, feeding twenty and easing homelessness with charity amid rain and mortgage worries.
An elderly Aunt Sarah frets over a delayed Thanksgiving dinner as she worries about mortgage plans and reuniting with Cousin Jim and his family. A kitchen scene unfolds with mince pies, a pumpkin, and a hopeful 12 year old orphan girl Susie Belle helping before the big gathering.
Aunt Sarah and family wait for a feast two days late as Cousin Jim’s son delivers a letter from a wealthy stranger. The note promises a generous gift to support the household, signed Robert Upton, prompting emotions of guilt and gratitude from Aunt Sarah.
A government expert recounts a counterfeiting case beginning with a Cincinnati bank clerk who detected a $20 bill in a retail grocer’s deposit. The bill traversed from a shoe dealer to a dentist and beyond, eventually circling back to a Pittsburgh barn repairs shop and a Cleveland area patient before revealing a broader gang link.
An explainer on how the presidential Thanksgiving proclamation is drafted sealed and distributed, from the drafting in the White House to the Great Seal, with notes on Washington Lincoln and modern practice. It ends with a boy’s humorous verse tracing Thanksgiving from England and Puritans.
The Detroit Free Press notes that setting aside a day of national thanksgiving stands as one of the finest customs for a prosperous nation. It praises living out the day’s spirit with practical observance and a good meal, though not always guaranteed.
A fragment from the Chicago Daily News quotes a neighborly exchange about Thanksgiving dinner invitations. The line notes the Jones family inviting others and the awkwardness of awaiting a prompt invitation, reflecting social norms of hospitality.
The Thanksgiving spread grows to fill the table as hosts embrace a refreshed dining ritual. A bulletin notes the holiday creates a sense of renewal, with food and conversation turning the day into a festive, hopeful moment.
The piece explains mice respond to traps and cats with humor and playfulness. It notes mice rattle newspapers at night to banish sleep, tease cats by darting across rooms, and hide in holes as the cat pounces. It compares mouse behavior to football accidents among men. Pearson's.
In a dramatic outburst Analine Munnyburn vows she will drive him to drink as he erupts in agony and demands the coachman, a moment echoed by a pointed remark from the Kansas City Independent.
A quip from the Ward Heeler echoed in Puck recalling that neither candidate would win without votes bought. The cartoon caption humorously suggests bribery as the deciding factor in an election.
United States Senator W V Sullivan of Mississippi writes from Oxford praising Peruna as an effective cure for catarrh. He reports relief from incipient symptoms and calls Peruna the best he has tried with no substitutes or rivals. The ad from The Peruna Medicine Co. invites readers to obtain a free book on catarrh.
A husband recounts how his wife with no stock knowledge invested $100 in P Q M shares and earned $2000 after a sudden price jump. He contrasts her instinct with his own misreadings and notes a Detroit broker's dramatic reaction.
In a Detroit Journal piece a rich handsome stranger begs a beautiful cashier at a laundry for love but she rejects him and marries another, turning the fantasy into a cautionary neighborhood romance.
An odd dialogue from the Ohio State Journal shows a stranger asking about a man named Brown and a door man denying knowledge. The exchange reveals one figure claiming to be Brown and asserting a rich relative’s death left him a fortune.
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