Thanksgiving memory and a jeweled auction at a family gathering
A narrator recalls a large Thanksgiving gathering at a country house where youths mingled freely. A jeweled pin is found on a pajama breast and auctioned among the men to raise funds. Becky Aldrich's blush signals her involvement, leading to a long, evolving romance with the narrator. Copyright 1917.
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Jack Somers
Jim Atwood
Becky Aldrich
Jim
Becky
McClure
Message of Cheer and Thanksgiving Heritage
A holiday card extols the season’s cheer and benevolent impulses. It recalls Thanksgiving as America’s oldest institution, noting the Pilgrim Fathers held their first harvest festival in 1621.
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America
Pilgrim Fathers
Psalm of the Pilgrims in Boston Bay
Hezekiah Butterworth recalls the Mayflower voyage and Winthrop's fleet singing praise in Yarmouth and Boston bays. The poem traces prayers rising from ships, the joining of English and Plymouth ties, and the Thanksgiving spirit through dawns, moons, and coastal horizons. It links historic seafaring faith to America’s early gratitude.
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Boston Bay
Winthrop
Yarmouth
Isles of Shoals
Cape Ann
Norman
Yarmouth Bay
Paradise
Boston
Primeval Woods
Red Cross
England
Shawmut
Plymouth
Endicott
Saltonstall
David
Hezekiah Butterworth
Edmund Vance Cooke
Cleveland
William Ernest Henley
Siack
Algernon Charles Swinburne
Henley
Swinburne
Boston Harbor
Satenstall
All Should Be Grateful in a November Benediction
Describes a harvest scene with shock ed grain heaps of pumpkins stubble of corn and wheat. The November sky bends low like a benediction inviting gratitude for plenteousness and God's loving care as a universal thanks giving.
Impotent Yarns About Thanksgiving Gift Tangled Tale
A brief, cryptic excerpt depicts a childlike voice accusing another of lying about turkey gifts before Thanksgiving. The lines hint at deception and mischief, with dialectal speech suggesting a local, informal quarrel or storytelling moment. The readable text focuses on dialogue and characterization rather than a clear event.
Thanksgivings Bring Town Back Home in Reflective Mood
In a rural town the Fourth and Christmas are common homecomings but Thanksgiving stirs a stronger pull to return. Vignettes of locals like Sam Bud Hallie Mopps Grayson Mapes and Joe Apple visit from Florida Ohio Arkansas Michigan and Jeffersonville, sharing memories and noting how home and family sustain them. The piece contrasts cosmopolitan reunions with enduring family ties and the universal value of a mother’s care. Universal Thanksgiving recalls nature’s harvest and seasonal duties as November winds down.
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Tell Binkley
Haint
Sam Bud
Florida
Hallie Mopps
Coshocton
Ohio
Grayson Mapes
Anybuddy
Philadelphy Ledger
Jeffersonville
Joe Apple
Arkansas
Michigan
Laurel Spray
Adams Newspaper Service
Thanksgiving verses span pride and pity in old poetry
The piece surveys verses by Tagore Burns Blake Cooke Henley Swinburne and Butterworth on Thanksgiving. It contrasts smug piety with humility and critiques self serving gratitude. It notes a healthier reverence in early Boston Harbor commemorations.
Thanksgiving as a beacon of hope amid war and toil
The essay argues that despite World War hardship, gratitude and faith in nature’s bounty endure. It links the Thanksgiving festival to the harvest’s symbolism, celebrating natural and human resources and the courage, grit, and collective effort shaping a resilient nation.
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America
A Prayer of Thanksgiving
A Reverend Lewis Allen offers a Thanksgiving prayer praising God for friends family nourishment and mercy. The sermon highlights gratitude for blessings kindness comfort and divine forgiveness, urging acknowledgment of gifts and hopeful support for the suffering. Amen.
Being Thankful: A Daily Habit for Cheerful Living
The passage urges Thanksgiving as a daily habit not a single day. It offers simple rules: walk on the sunny side, live in the best room of the house, focus on friends, speak of good luck, and cultivate cheerfulness as the soil for gratitude to grow.
Thanksgiving Reflections on Joy and the Turkeys Fate
A reflective essay contrasts the turkey as a solemn emblem of fate with human celebrations of Thanksgiving. It discusses ancestral tragedy and the somber tone of Pilgrim history, then shifts to joy, gratitude, and spiritual emotion inspired by harvest feasts and the hope of renewal.
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Turkey
Minneapolis
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