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[[underlined]] Tacoma [[/underlined]]
[[underlined]] Thanksgiving [[/underlined]] - As it was not raining this morning I took a walk about the residence part of the town up on the top of the bluff, which is graded back from the the Sound in terraces of streets.  The [[insertion]] best [[/insertion]] residence part is homelike & attractive, or would be if it were not for the dampness which makes [[insertion]] almost [[/insertion]] everything look black & water soaked.  
The High School is such a large, pretentious building I mistook it for a college.  The ships in the Sound make a pleasing picture.  The clouds lifted enough to show the platform of the mountain - Rainier - dark blue with snow streaks on the higher reaches, but the veil before the peak was not lifted.
Among the list of blessings the Thanksgiving editorials include the fact that the Union Pacific has been work, that the Milwaukee & St Paul is making progress, & that the North Bank line is nearly completed "thankful that the turkey does not roost too high for the clearing house certification" & concludes "Take it all in all, nearly everyone everywhere has some reason for thankfulness, [[underlined]] even if he should live in Seattle [[/underlined]] !" A R.R. is coming from Olympia along the Sound past Stielacoom.
[[underlined]] Nov. 29 [[/underlined]] At breakfast I heard the head waiter telling some people about the mountain & for an instant had a

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