The Golden Organ and the Habit of Thanksgiving
A devotional essay urges daily gratitude and trust in God, using a legend of a submerged golden organ to symbolize music that persists through sorrow. It contrasts sunny moods with desert paths, and advises looking out each morning to see beauty. It includes guidance on trust, contentment, and recognizing good in life.
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The Pumpkin by Joux Gacesrear Waikrn
A poetic meditation on Thanksgiving day as families reunite across regions. The speaker envisions the New England home lit by reunion, with memories revived, loved ones gathered, and the comforting sight of a pumpkin pie brightening faces.
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Glimpses of a Distant Land through Quiet Prayer
In quiet hours of meditation our hearts reach to God and stand on mountain tops with Him. We catch glimpses of a land that often seems afar off. Are you looking out. Rev J R Miller.
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Candle Lamp Design and Beverage Substitutions Discussed
A description explains a lamp chimney with a partition to separate cold intake from hot exhaust. It also notes substitutions for wine in a drink using water and milk or syrup. The quote includes a remark about prominent men being executed and a taunt about blockheads, attributed to the New Orleans Picayune.
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New Orleans Picayune
Thanksgiving letters and odd inventions across the papers
A humorous Thanksgiving letter episode shows a childlike note to Grandma with requests for pies puddings and a sage stuffed turkey. The scene contrasts with a comic invention from the Washington Star a hen shaped egg vending apparatus that deposits eggs on demand and imitates a live hen in action.
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Washington Star
Centralized government debate in sardonic exchange
Compact Facilities reports on a humorous exchange quoting Senator Sorgum who defends centralized rule as convenient. The Washington Star adds a witticism about Roman orators speaking in the Forum and then returning home, contrasting modern mileage and travel burdens with ancient rhetoric.
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Alphabet of the New York Point System of Printing For the Blind
Fireworks originated in the thirteenth century by the Florentines and later gained popularity in Rome.
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Night Dog Roars Prompt Neighborly Comment in Chicago
After midnight a suburban man on his front step debates the source of eerie canine howls with a city policeman. The man muses on shooting the neighbor's dog if the noise proves not his own, reflecting tensions over late night disturbances.
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Chicago News
Polly Was Not Always a Perfect Lady, Papa
The Box Office Manager assures patrons the parrot show is refined but warns of inherent risk with parrots, while a speaker comments on bringing a child to the Talking Birds Show. The Sketch tone reflects light theatrical humor about audience safety and animal performance.
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Where the Octopus Abounds in Brittany Rocks
A Minnesi Journal note describes Brittany's rock coast as rich with octopus and cuttlefish bones. Lifeguards cite the pleuvre and advise walking Breton beaches at low tide to find many six inch to foot long skeletons. Peasants use them for bird feed ash trays and cigarettes.
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