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Newspaper
Ackley World
Location
Ackley, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 17, 1913
Page
6
An advertising blurb urges readers to cut coal costs by purchasing from Townsend and Merrill Company. It notes the home needs heat and hints at efficiency, urging savings on winter fuel. The fragment emphasizes economic warmth and shopping for coal.
Wilbur discovers hidden bundles in a storeroom closet while Maud Dinah and Marian busy with mincemeat. The children debate Santa Claus's existence, with Marian defending belief and Dinah clinging to doubt, until shared warmth and family love affirm the holiday spirit.
A compact survey traces the first Christmas feast to Emperor Commodus and notes historic references to Christians celebrating Christ’s birth. It covers later persecutions, the spread of the festival, and a brief account of the Yule log’s druidic origins and symbolism along with a legal note on the Webb Kenyon act upheld in Oregon.
Poem by Edwin L. Babin celebrates Christmas as a global dawn. The piece calls on distant lands from snowy towns to remote huts to wake to the Christmas message. It portrays a universal greeting of hope as the Christmas wreath and music cross borders.
The tradition spans December first to fifteenth with cork bark landscapes, winding trails, cardboard houses and castles, and a grotto cradle housing the holy family. Shepherds in Sicilian dress bring gifts on donkeys, while the blue Paperta sky and Bethlehem star crown the display kept year after year by mothers and daughters.
In New York City Italian and Hungarian neighborhoods retain the tradition of the manger at Christmas. The preseplo and Bethlehem are longstanding devotions linked to St. Francis of Assisi who popularized them in Italy. Once common in Naples and Rome, the custom fades in mainland cities but remains in Sicily with families still erecting mangers.
A Kansas City speech outlines a new national campaign to enlist temperance leagues and anti liquor groups nationwide. Charles J Wall of Los Angeles and Eugene W. Ghaflan, former Prohibition party candidate, tour to support the movement amid calls for absorbing major parties on the prohibition issue. The speaker criticizes party labels and urges unity under a platform favoring a national prohibition pledge.
In Washington sixty members of the National American Woman Suffrage Association pressed President Wilson to back federal woman suffrage. He said he would not urge Congress on any issue without organic Democratic party consideration, but he stated he favored creating a standing House committee to study woman suffrage and would share his views when consulted by Congress.
Washington December 9 The annual Currency Bureau report details growth and operations of U S national banks for the year ended. Only four banks out of more than 7 600 went into receivership with resale capital stock of 4 360 000. Asset liquidation progressed satisfactorily. Kronklin versus Kimball The U S referee in bankruptcy for the southern district of Iowa is believed to have eluded officers after escaping from Etinola. County Attorney Hart refused to comment. Kimball, indicted for conspiracy in disbarment proceedings begun last spring, remains at large.
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