Ain't It Splendid to Be Livin This Time of Year
Local dialect sketches reflect on autumn feel and Thanksgiving prep with crisp mornings and busy shops. The speaker notes bright futures, growing children, and simple pleasures as turkeys gobble and life feels hopeful amid hard times.
Ain't It Fine to Wake From Dreaming of Home
A nostalgic verse fragment reflects on rural memory and the joys of youth. The speaker recalls crisp mornings, fallen leaves, hay for cattle, shared kindness, and simple pleasures, evoking a past in Sinachia with parents and fair days. Eb Kiser signs as poet.
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Sinachia
Thanksgiving Spirit Keeps Hope Alight Despite Hard Times
A speaker argues for a bountiful Thanksgiving without restraint, celebrating abundance with pork, jellies, pies, and even a suckling pig. He recalls the Pilgrims and urges gratitude for food and liberty, urging prudent but joyful feasting amid wartime austerity.
Godly men and the times on feasts and freedom
A fragment reflects on religious men and their view of feasts as sinless, calls for restraint and mutual aid. Ted Robinson referenced in Cleveland Plain Dealer commentary.
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Times
Ted Robinson
Cleveland Plain
Dealer
Tuberculosis: The Arch Enemy of Humanity
Public health message highlights tuberculosis as a deadly, preventable killer affecting workers and families. It notes 100000 deaths annually in the United States and economic costs around 500 million dollars, urging prevention and support for the National Tuberculosis Association and Christmas seal campaigns.
Antique fiddle tied to Chinese coolies returning home
A Chinese worker who served with Allied forces on the western front recently arrived in Canada en route home. He carries a musical instrument, an antique fiddle, among his belongings for the journey back.
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Canada
Water wings lift ships in Scottish salvage effort
London reports canvas pontoons by Meears Vickers inspired by water wings. Inflated pontoons lift 100 submerged tons each and two recently raised the steamship Main sunk by a U boat in Luce bay Scotland. Plans call for 50 pontoons to raise the Lusitania.
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London
America
Meears
Vickers
Luce Bay
Wigtonshire
Scotland
Lusitania
Probate Notice for Benjamin F Lightner Estate
Creditors of Benjamin F Lightner deceased must present claims to the Administrator before Jefferson County Nebraska County Judge at the county court room by January 27 1920. Three months allowed from October 27 1919 to file claims. Claims not filed by that date are forever barred. Louis J Nutzman County Judge Heasty Barnes attorneys for estate.
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Benjamin F. Lightner
Jefferson County
Nebr
Louis J. Nutzman
LPSAS
Heasty Barnes
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