Mulhall Enterprise (Mulhall, Okla.), Vol. 18, No. 46, Ed. 1 Friday, November 18, 1910 Page: 3 of 8
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headache for the last twenty-five years and
never found any relief until he began
taking your Cascarets. Since he has
begun taking Cascarets he has never had
the headache. They have entirely cured
hiin. Cascarets do what you recommend
them to do. I will give you the privilege
of using his name."—E. M. Dickson,
ii2o Kesiner St., W. Indianapolis, Ind.
EXT to a goodly supply of
turkeys the most impor-
tant requisite for a suc-
cessful Thanksgiving is a
plentiful measure of cran-
berries of just the proper
tart flavor. As well have
a Thanksgiving dinner
without turkey as without
the appetizing cranberry
sauce. However the people
of the United States have
scant cause to worry be-
cause of this feature of
their holiday menu. It has
been years since a failure
of the cranberry crop was
•©ported and cranberry growers have been so
Increasing their productive areas that despite
the increase in demand, due to the country s
Jncronse in population and other influences
there continues to be year by year a pret y
lavish supply of the crimson berries, and most
.eason* And them available at very reason-
able prices. , ,
Cranberries, like so many of the other good
things of life, are distinctively American deli-
cacies To be sure, cranberries grow wild in
gome other quarters of the globe—for instance
In Kurope, but it is only in the United States
that they have been cultivated as an article of
foci,! Even In re the growing of cranberries is
contined largely lo three states—Massachu-
setts, New Jersey und Wisconsin. How impor-
tant an industry It is may be surmised
from the fact that the
Cape Cod district In Mas-
sachusetts, the greatest
cranberry region on the
globe, sends to market as
many as one-third of a
million barrels of cran-
berries in a single season.
The average person is
wont to term all berry
areas "patches," but cran-
berries do not grow in
patches but in bogs
and, as may be sur-
mised from the name, most of these tracts are
located adjacent to rivers or lakes or ponds,
so that they can be flooded in the late au-
tumn and kept under water until spring. The
berries grow on a vine which nestles close
to the ground in a perfect tangle, and save for
keeping out the weeds and battling with the
insect pests, which are numerous, the cranber-
ries do not require very much cultivation or
attent'on until harvest time approaches in the
autumn. Then the cranberry grower must look
forward to a period of anxiety, a careful, ser-
ious scrutiny of the weather. He must
keep close watch on the weather, for if a frost
comes ere the crop is harvested it will work
sad havoc unless the grower has been fore-
warned and flooded his bog or built great bon-
fires to keep up the temperature.
In years gone by the harvesting of cranber-
ries was done solely by the band picking meth-
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od, much as raspberries
o r strawberries are
picked, and most of the
cranberry picking was
done by women and chil-
dren. The "Cranberry
King" used to hire as
many as 1,100 pickers
on his great bogs on
Cape Cod and the pick-
ers, many of whom Jour-
neyed long distances,
"camped out" on the
bogs during the picking
season. The past few
witnessed a revolution.
years, however, has
Now almost all cranberries are picked by the
aid of machines, and because it Is tiresome
work manipulating these machines It has come
about that most of the women and children
have been forced out of the Industry and the
task is largely In the hands of men, the more
skillful of whom receive from $3 to $5 per day.
The picking machine most extensively used
has the appearance of a huge wooden scoop,
the bottom of which is made up of a row of
metal bars, tipped with sharp prongs and set
close together. In operation this scoop Is
shoved with some considerable force into the
tangle of cranberry vines and then is drawn up-
ward and backward with the result that the
vines which have been caught slip between the
metal bars but leave the berries, which are too
large to pass through the openings, as do the
vines, and in consequence are stripped from
however,
tlon by the governors of New York
began in 1817. From that time the
observance gradually crept southward
and westward, and in 188t> Governor
Johnson of Virginia adopted it, and
though in 1857 Governor Wise of Vir-
ginia declined to make the proclama-
tion on the ground that he was unau-
thorized to interfere in religious mat-
ters, in 1858 a Thanksgiving day was
proclaimed in eight of the southern
states.
their stems and remain in the scoop, whence
they are transferred to the tray which each pick-
er has close at hand. An expert picker with a
machine will do the work of from half a dozen
to a dozen hand pickers.
The cranberries as picked on the bogs are
placed in huge wooden boxes and transferred
to a nearby frame building, where they ore I
passed through a machine known as a "separa-
tor," which takes out all the leaves, twigs nnd
other foreign matter. Then they aro sorted for
the elimination of any bad or worm-eaten ber-
ries and finally aro placed in barrels, which are
hauled away to railroad yards to be loaded into
cars to the tune of from 220 to 240 barrels
to the car, refrigerator cars being used exclu-
sively. Up to the present timo cranberries have
been sold In bulk, but thl* year sees an innova-
tion in the appearance of evaporated cranberries,
for which aro claimed all the advantages of evap-
orated peaches or apples, nnd in the introduction
of cranberries put up in pasteboard cartons.
Hearing cranberry bogs of the most desir^
able kind coat from $600 to $1,200 per acre,
but in a bumper year a grower may get his
money back the first year, and during the worst
year the industry has known in a decade most of
the growers made from 10 to 15 per cent, on
their investment, and that, too, in spite of the
fact that cranberries were so plentiful that they
brought only $2 a barrel, whereas $5 to $7 a bar-
rel is accounted an average price, and there have
been years when a famine of cranberries sent
tho price up to $10 per barrel.
Plrasant. Palatable, Potent. Taste Good.
l)o Good. Never Stcken/Wealit-n or Gripe.
10c, 25c, 50c. Never sol«l In bulk. The gen-
uine tablet stamped C C C. Guaranteed to
cure or your money back. £3
I A\I\L
Tuffs Fills
The first dose often astonishes the invalid*
riving elasticity of mind, buoyancy of body,
GOOD DIGESTION,
regular bowels and solid flesh. Price, 25 ct»
B
SO'S
The Number.
"I hear your new auto made a good
record on its trip."
"Yes; ran over in about an hour "
"How many?"
Beautiful Post Cards Free.
Send 2c Htnmp for five samples of our
rery best Gold and Pilk Finish Birthday.
Flower and Motto Post Cards; beautiful
colors and loveliest desigr.s. Art Post
Card Co., 731 Jackson St., Topeka, Ivan.
The spinster is handicapped In one
respect. She can't tell all the things
she knows the way a married woman
can.
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■^AMI/EL WILLIAMS
HH autumn of 1621
w aned on a prosperous
community. Plymouth,
Mass., was both
healthy and wealthy.
Sickness, though it had
destroyed one-half the
company of pilgrims,
had ceased, and the
crops, as a whole, had been good, the
peas alone failing. All the houses In
the settlement had been put Into con-
dition and a soodly stock of furs and
prepared lumber had been made ready
for export to England by the next
ship. The waters swarmed with fish
ami i-"a fowl were abundant. The call i
of the wild turkey was heard In the I
woods and the patter of the fleeting \
deer was nothing strange.
The I'timmer was past; the harvest
ended. The pilgrims decided upon a
peiiod ef recreation. The governor
«ent out four huntsmen, who In one
day secured gaino to last the colony
a week. Hospitality was extended to
MassttsrHt. of tho neighboring settle-
ment, who brought 90 people with
him. Tho guests remained 30 days.
The enmpany engaged In rounds of
amusements, In which military drills
and religious services formed a part.
Thus, heartily_jind loyally, was Inau-
gurated tho great New Kngland festi-
val of Thanksgiving. For two centu-
ries it has continued to bo observed,
nt first mostly In the eastern states,
but tt has now become national, Its
annual return finding a welcome from
boundary to boundary, both at top
and bottom and either extremity of
the nation.
Thanksgiving day Is peculiarly an
American custom, though there are
some writers who claim that it Is not
possible to determine the date of the
first, observance. John A. Goodwin.
In Ills historical review, "The Pilgrim
Republic," Is positive, however, thnt
the first celebration occurred In the
fall of 1C21,"tills being followed In 1023
by the fir-t Thanksgiving proclama-
tion, by tho governor of Massachu-
setts. In 1030 there arrived at Plym-
outh 11 vessels, bringing with them
880 colonists, making the number
nearly 1,200 In tend nf a mere 300. O*
July 8, lr.'io, another Thaiiksglvlnx
was held In actnoHcdgment for this
accession to tho ranks of tho colon-
Vis Tho Dutch governors of the Now
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The day had thus naturally grown
to be a national institution of almost
universal observance, when the Civil
war brought to sudden riponess this
along with many other tendencies, and
President Lincoln put upon It the seal
of his official proclamation. Presi-
dent Lincoln's first proclamation was
In 1802, on account of the first Impor-
tant victory of the national arms. He
Issued a similar recommendation In
1803.
T.»n tho Old
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Tti« formula Is plulnly i rlnted on every bottla,
■bowing It 1h Mrnply Oulnlne and I on in a Uiste*
loan form. Tim Oulnlne drives out Hie i
and tno Iron builds Uii the system. Sold by .
dealers for ttU yuara. i'rlce 60 crnts.
niarta
jy all
Netherlands also appointed different
dates for public thanksgiving, from
time to time, and In some historical
works there is record of a dispute as
to which of these colonies deserved
the credit for having first Inaugurated
the day. Most of tho best founded
historians, however, give tho credit to
the New England states.
The Dutch governors of New Neth-
erlands appointed occasional days of
thanksgiving In 1044, 10-15, 1055 and
1604, and the English governors fol-
lowed their example In 1755 ami 1700,
and the Protestant Episcopal church
In the United States In Its prayer
hook, ratified In 1789, recommends for
Thanksgiving day the first Thursday
In November, unless some other day
be appointed by the civil authorities.
There were also occasional recomnn-n-
dntlons by other religious bodies, but
no regular annual recommendation by
the governor of Now York before 1817.
Tho struggle of the colonies for In-
dependence marks tho beginning of
general observances of days of thanks
giving in this country. The congress
of 1777. the one which propared the
articles of confederation for adoption
by the colonleB, adopted a resolution
setting npart the eighteenth day of
December, 1777. to bo observed as a
day of solemn thanksgiving and
praise throughout tho United St"'es.
Washington, during his administra-
tion, Issued two thanksgiving procla-
mations, ono In 1789 and the other In
t"95, Just, after tho suppression of
the "Whisky rebellion," which had
threatened the peace of the country,
and President Madison Issued ono
upon tho declaration of peaco lu
1815. However, In the early years
of the nation the rule was for tho co-
lonial custom to be followed and tho
proclamation mails emanated from
tho governors. The western states,
largely p< oplo from New Kngland or
Now York, early followed the lend of
those portions of the country. As we
have seen, the annual rocomtuenda
Decorative Conceits and Favors
For the Thanksgiving Festivities
The pious, hard-driven, worn-out, but
thankful Puritans who sat down at
their tables one November, a few cen-
turies ago, and made the first Thanks-
giving Day, never knew to what
lengths they were to drive tho in-
genuity of their poor descendants.
But it wasn't their fault after all, that
the preparer of the Thanksgiving foast
today has to attend Just as much to
the turkey's surroundings as to the
turkey itself. It was good enough for
them to have a well-stocked larder
from which could come the turkey, the
celery, the pumpkin pie, tho cranber-
ries and all the other goodies which
history puts down to their credit
Even tho comparatively recent New
EnglanderB Vero content with all
these as long as they looked tempting
and tasted good. IJut today, even the
Important fowl Itself Is hardly more
Important than tho ribbons, the can-
dles, the favors, the adornments of
all kinds, which must appear on the
Thanksgiving table.
"Don't bother about having too
much to eat," an up-to-date daughter
was heard to say to hor New England
mother the other day. "I want plenty
of room for the ribbons and the candy
boxeB."
It's the same way with other daugh-
ters of un esthetic turn of mind, rath-
er than a practical one, and It looks
as if their ambitions to "make things
look pretty" may be realized this year,
for there Is a goodly array of Thanks-
giving favors and table decorutlons of
all kinds.
Of course the turkey reigns su-
preme, even If It Is In paper, and Is
seen In all sizes, all kinds, roasted to
a beautiful dark brown as the cook-
book says, or standing Important and
majestic with Its big fan-shaped feath-
er tall high In tho air. In most cases
the favor turkey Is meant for candy,
but certain new china turkeys are
mustard cups.
The pumpkin Is next In Importaneo
nnd Is seen In ninny of tho novelties.
There nre large paper pumpkins fur
centerpieces uud all sorts of small
ones In papier inache or tissue paper
which nre candy boxes. Fruits and
vegetables of all kinds seem to be
suggestive of tho season of feasting,
and many good imitations are found
among the candy box collections.
Gobllnesque little men are made of
paper fruits nnd fixed up to have a
very grotesque appearance, and funny
little figures are made of peanuts, and
mounted on cards. Nuts are tied up
in ribbons and are found to be prize-
packages for the receiver, for In them
aro neatly packed little stick-pins,
whistles, etc., all carefully concealed
within the paper shells.
The place cards allow of a great
many new designs, and an especially
new featuro among these Is some
small mirrors. The chrysanthemum
Is the leading flower among the paper
bowers, and those in yellow or orange
seem to be the most desired shades
Other Imitations which ure especially
"life-like" are tho painted piece of the
pumpkin pie, the tin of Boston baked
beans, the plum pudding and the ear
of corn.
About all a school teacher gets out
of her great education Ib that after
she becomes old, she knows moro to
find fault about than other people.
Stiff ncck! Doesn't amount to mnch,
but mighty disagreeable. You've no idea
how quickly a little llamlins Wizard Oil
will lubricate the cords and make you
comfortable again.
There are a good many heroes In
novels who couldn't earn a living In
real life.
A I.I, UP-TO-DATE HOUHRKEEPBtU
Use Red Cross Ball Blue. It makes clothes
clean and sweet as when new. All gioccw.
It is perhaps better to build air
castles than to have no ambition at all.
LENT INSPIRATION.
"I am gratified," said the first prom-
inent citizen, "to observe the under-
current of Joy In the Thanksgiving
proclamation of tho governor. Hith-
erto the proclamations have been along
the old cut and dried, stilted forms,
but lu this Instance there is a certain
tone of Joyousness.of thankfulness, of
pure-gratefulness that Is really In-
spiring."
| "Yes," agrees the second prominent
I citizen, 'but It's no wonder the govern-
or felt good when he wrote that proe-
j lamaiion"
"No. Ho hns started on what eoema
destined to be a good administration,
already there Is talk of promoting
him to some higher office In the gift
of tho peo "
"And besides," Interrupts the second
man, "the governor owns ono of the
largest turkey farms In the state.
DRINK WATER TO CURE
KIDNEYS AND RHEUMATISM
The People Do Not Drink Enough
Water to Keep Healthy,
Says Well-Known
Authority.
"The numerous cases of kidney and
bladder diseases and rheumatism nre
mainly due to the fact that the dunk-
ing of water, nature's greatest mcdl-
clne, has been neglected.
Stop loading your system wlU med-
icines and curc-ulls; but got on Mia
water wagon. If you aro really slcfc,
why, of course, take tho proper medi-
cines—plain, common vegetable treat-
ment, which will not shatter Mia
nerves or ruin the stomach."
To cure Rheumatism you must make
tbo kidneys do their work; thoy are
the filters of tho blood. They mast
be mado to strain out of the blood tho
waste matter and ac(ds that oauso
rheumatism; the urine must bo neu-
tralized so It will no longer bo a
sourco of irritation to the bladder, and,
most of all, you must keep these acids
from forming In the stomach. This
Is the cause of stomach trouble nnd
poor digestion. For these conditions
you can do no better than talco the
following prescription: Fluid Extract
Dandelion, one-htilf ounce; Compound
Knrgon, one ounco; Compound Syrup
Sarsnparllla, three ounces. Mix by
slinking well In bottlo ntid tnko In
teaspoonful doses after each meal nnd
at bedtime, but don't forget tho
water. Drltik plenty nnd often.
This valuable Information and sim-
ple prescription should bo posted rip
in each household nnd used at the
first sign of nn attack of rhoiimstlsm,
backache or urinary trouble, no mut-
ter how alight.
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Wood, A. B. Mulhall Enterprise (Mulhall, Okla.), Vol. 18, No. 46, Ed. 1 Friday, November 18, 1910, newspaper, November 18, 1910; Mulhall, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc304864/m1/3/: accessed April 25, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.