Thanksgiving Run Through Flooded Rail Route
Engineer Jim Moore on a flooded line near Bridgeport chooses to push ahead with an improvised dash to safety. Fireman Dick Long and conductor rally passengers to gamble on a high-stakes move as water swamps trestles and fill, risking lives for a chance at the dry side.
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Bridgeport
Jim Moore
Jim
Moore
Dick Long
Millopolis
Providence
Long
Detroit Free Press
Train Crisis and Thanksgiving Rescues on River Route
A dramatic railroad story describes engineer Moore and fireman Long guiding a passenger train through rising floodwaters. They cross trestles, ditch floods, and a collapsing bridge, reaching safety at a high ground station while passengers praise their steadiness.
Reaping and Sowing: Character Grows from Early Life
Reverend Cc B Mitchell argues character cannot be bought but must be grown, warning that early life shapes the harvest. Youth is the sowing time, and the harvest is a character. He declares no sowing wild oats yields no bad harvest.
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Cc. B. Mitchell
Sweet Potato Pie Recipe for Exiles from the South
A Boston Burget recipe describes making sweet potato pie with boiled potatoes mashed and blended with butter and sugar. Add six eggs, lemon zest and juice, nutmeg, and brandy then bake in a pastry-lined plate finishing with sugar and citron dots.
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Boston
Storeroom Tips Preserve Pickles and Jams
Housekeeper advises sprinkling lime on storeroom shelves to keep pickles and jams fresh and mold free. Replace lime about monthly as it loses strength to maintain effectiveness.
Which cook did Mrs Bacon-How long stay yesterday
Yonkers Statesman reports a dialogue between Mrs Egbert and Mrs Bacon about a cook from the previous day, noting differing recollections. The brief exchange highlights confusion over the cook’s duration and attendance.
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Bacon
East Tennessee Loyalists welcome Union soldiers in grateful narrative
Col Felix A Reeves recalls East Tennessee hospitality to Union troops, praising Burnside as deliverer and recounting acts of aid amid loss and destruction. He shares tales from Gen Orlando B Willcox in Greenville and a moving farewell at Greene County, noting loyal Tennesseans’ sacrifices and shoes given to marchers.
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Tennessee
Felix A. Reeve
National Tribune
Burnside
Joel
Lord Byron
Napoleon
Orlando B. Willcox
East Tennessee
Greenville
Patterson
Johnson
White House
Willcox
Georgia
Jesse S. Reeve
Greene County
Col. Ingersoll
Gen. Howard
Knoxville
Confederate Coin on Display at Texas World’s Fair
Dr. Joseph E. Chambers of St Louis displayed one of four Confederate coins made by the southern government at the United Daughters of the Confederacy reception in the Texas building. The coin, now valued at 2000 dollars, sits in a safe, with three other known copies likely destroyed or lost.
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United Daughters of the Confederacy
Texas
Joseph E.chambers
Taylor Avenue
St. Louis
Louisiana
United States Mint
New Orleans
United States
Confederate States
Liberty
Confederacy
Confed
Erate
Fedral Govrnment
Dr. Chambers
Chambers
Mississippi
J. K. Bingaman
Cincinnati
Testing Their Efficacy
A Cleveland Leader anecdote uses James Whitcomb Riley to illustrate discipline in a mother son scene. A mother leaves and returns to find her son refusing prayers saying he did not say them last night nor tonight, vowing not to say them again even if nothing happens tomorrow night.
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James Whitcomb Riley
Cleveland
Entangled Visit Brings Mr Borem To Drawing Room
In Tit-Bits style a servant reports Miss Beauty is engaged as Mr Borem arrives. He’s told to wait. a fiancé waits with a stick in the drawing room, referring to a comic domestic scene.
Open-Air School in Charlottenburg Serves 119 Pupils
In Charlottenburg near Berlin an open-air school operates with each child bringing their own cup and taking part in cooking and peeling potatoes. The summer term saw 119 children attend, who were given a free daily railway journey.
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Germany
Charlottenburg
Berlin
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Gran
Grandpa
Prairie Farmer Home Magazine
Sweet Potato Pie
St. Lovwie
Mr. Borem
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