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Newspaper
Aberdeen Herald
Location
Aberdeen, Washington, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1896
Page
3
A poetic meditation on time and the passage of year end. The poem describes Time as a bell tolling across a cathedral universe, its chime shaping human passion and contemplation as the New Year approaches. The Great Creator is invoked as the world quiets and observes the moment.
Mandy confronts her father over buying a Christmas gift for Jenny while her parents argue about social status and Jenny's future. Jenny longs to see her sick mother and asks Mandy to help, but the family friction and class tensions complicate plans for a hopeful reunion.
A stormy Christmas Eve tale blends searching grief and faith with a tale of a family finding peace. A father and mother cherish a young Jenny and the gifts of love while a prior hardship is recalled by a brother’s memory of saving a shawl and watch from a thief.
A narrator recalls a Christmas Eve scene with a battered trunk, a rag doll, a china cup marked From Papa, and a family recalling Jenny who made the doll and sampler. The memory shifts to a later Christmas night with a thief suspected of stealing a watch and shawl as Santa’s gifts await.
A child doubts Santa’s existence asking if Kris Kringle comes to them. Grandmother pauses her knitting, then gently reassures “between you and me” that Santa may still be true, sharing a quiet, intimate exchange about belief.
The piece recalls a humorous 19th century Christmas from Ladies' Home Journal where gifts designed for stockings included Noah’s Ark figures and painted animals. The baby eagerly consumes painted toys, while adults are indistinguishable under holiday chaos, and the doctor is summoned after the Ararat landing.
A holiday note urges keeping gift giving modest by distributing a few stockings instead of filling many, promoting restraint and thoughtful generosity during the season.
The German bark Potrimpos, Captain Henry Hellewege, ran ashore at Pacific Park near Ilwaco on the Washington coast while en route from Mazatlan to the Columbia River. Eighteen aboard were saved by the Ilwaco life-saving crew after six sailors abandoned ship in a boat. The vessel, high on the beach, can be pulled off at the next high tide if lines are passed to a tug.
A Caracas dispatch reports broad support in Venezuela for ratifying the Guiana boundary arbitration treaty with England negotiated by the United States. President Crespo backs the measure and four state governors favor ratification as Senor Jose Andrade and James J. Storrow travel to New York with the draft for approval. The Venezuelan congress meets in February and is seen as almost certain to ratify.
A noon dispatch from Shreveport reports a freight wreck near Sodus Louisiana on the Texas and Pacific line. Three men were killed and seven injured, all injured sent to Charity hospital. names of the dead not released. The wreck occurred on a steep grade as the westbound freight ascended the grade, with the caboose crew unharmed. The wounded include C L Gates, Dave Miller, Frank Terry, Charles Williams, Jerry Henderson, and George Brown.
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee agreed to report the Cameron resolution acknowledging Cuba’s independence. Secretary Olney outlined administration policy arguing no Cuban government exists and presidential action, not Congress, decides recognition. The panel altered the text to say the U S will use friendly offices to end the war and explicitly acknowledge the republic of Cuba.
The Missouri State University Tigers received an invitation from President Diaz to play football in Mexico City. The game is set for December 27 at Indianola grounds, with the team to depart for Mexico City immediately after recent Texas tour wins. Protesters in South McAlester condemn the Choctaw Dawes treaty as unfair to non citizens, risking double value for improvements and property confiscation for the poorer classes. A note adds that out of 300000 fossil insects collected globally only twenty are butterflies.
Immiration Inspector Da Barry reports a treasury ruling on the alien labor law. The decision holds that Canadian trained nurses working in U S hospitals are deportable, reversing a two year old finding that they were semi professional and could not be interfered with. Inspector Estell proceeds to deport five nurses from a Danville sanitarium.
In Washington the Pacific Railroad funding bill will be the first business after recess with three days for debate, targeting January 5 or 6 for kickoff. The New Indian Commission proposal advances to abolish the current commissioners and replace them with a three member board. In Germany and France women make up twenty five percent of crisis reports while Japan reports thirty eight percent. In Parkersburg West Virginia Hon M K Daly, a lawyer, was murdered in his office by Cad Collins. Daly died after multiple knife wounds.
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