Suffering and prophets mix in a varied progress column
The Progress from Shreveport compiles diverse notes on morality, labor, invention, and science. It mentions false prophets in election returns, the impact of quiet speech on employment, temperance of self discipline, and the legacy of Armenian suffering while touching on a corncob pipe inventor, a new skate bicycle idea in England, dental safety in factories, an astronomy lens test by Alvan Clark, and a humorous anecdote about sermons read aloud to insomniac husbands. It closes with meteorological night warnings and rocket signals for mariners.
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Cambridge
Mass
Chicago
California
Hach
Alvan Clark
Thanksgiving Hymn Fragment from Will Carleton Poem
Fragment of a Will Carleton poem praising gratitude to Thee Father and Thy mercy. Appears as a devotional or literary excerpt mentioning blessings, strength through trials, and future hopes while invoking Father and Mother figures. Text centers on thanksgiving, faith, and hopeful eternity.
Thanksgiving Praise A Call To Cherish Old Time Gratitude
The piece extols Thanksgiving as a simple beautiful national festival. It contrasts Puritan hardships with their pioneering feast and urges modern readers to appreciate mercies, literature, art, family, and friends with heartfelt gladness.
Forms of love and service in a Christian Herald meditation
The piece extols charity as true Christian duty beyond money, urging readers to share kindness, friendship and strength. It compares aiding others to tending a wounded soul, like an angel at Gethsemane, and stresses that selfishness must die to live for others.
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The
Christian Herald
Aineva
Christ
Teddy’s Thanksgiving Birthday Baby
Teddy sits beside his mother at Thanksgiving with joy and thanks. He is a rosy, dimpled boy in his new best dress, sharing bread and milk in a simple celebration that makes life seem worth living. Family gathers from afar to mark the day and bless Teddy.
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Teddy
Mamma
Thanksgiving Pumpkin Surprise Lark For Widow Gray
In a village tale, six boys plan a surprise for Widow Gray on Thanksgiving Eve. They craft elaborate pumpkin “dishes” in Emery’s barn, fund Turkey and fixings via Squire Fiske, and stage a torchlit procession to Widow Gray’s cottage with a panda of lanterns and a pumpkin pie barrow.
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Widow Gray
Maitland
Tom Gray
Tom
Squire Fiske
Mr. Emery
Joe
Will
Joe Eynery
Will Somerby
Thanksgiving at the Mountain Farm With Family
Agnes Kincaid recalls a joyful gathering as sons and daughters return from Hamlet and city to the mountain home. She invites doors to open for the golden air, celebrating beloved family members Laura Jol vine Rosalie and other children who bring warmth and life to the old house.
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Laura
Pride
Darling
Rosalie
Agnes Kincaid
Thanksgiving Day Football Sparks Grateful Debate
A wife questions why people attend football games on Thanksgiving noting it lacks the holiday spirit. Her husband counters that games reveal gratitude for not being players. The anecdote parallels a girl who locked the dog in a closet so the family would be thankful on their return.
Turkey Humor Ponders Thanksgiving Time
A playful exchange between Turkey Humor and Young Turkey frames the lead into a light seasonal note about Thanksgiving, with the Young Turkey expressing satisfaction in staying ahead until after the holiday.
Great Gunes Krupp Gun Monster and Other Promises
Fragmented OCR notes describe a massive Krupp gun weighing 270000 pounds with a 44 foot barrel, claimed firing rate and projectile specs, plus various medical and patent medicine lines and miscellaneous moralizing aphorisms. The text blends weaponry, cures, and consumer ads in a disjointed historical snippet.
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Krupp
Kasson
Trermany
The Wizard Speech And A Railway Church Tale
A fragment recalls Edison mis speaking before a girls seminary as Adams operates the apparatus and Edison jokes about reading and demonstrating electricity. The piece then notes a railway church built at Titus by Trans-Caucasian railway workers with a cross, belfry, minister’s apartments and oak altar seating seventy.
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Edison
Adams
San Francisco
Argonaut
Titus
Trans-Caucasian Alloway Company
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