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Newspaper
Acton Enterprise
Location
Acton, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1890
Page
3
A London Saturday Review summary describes Advent rituals in Carniola with processions and house to house carols, the three Wise Men’s rites, and the village images. It recounts tales of magical animal speech heard by a cook in fern boots, where oxen foretell deaths and weddings, ending with a wry moral on knowledge beyond men.
A New Christmas Game suggests gathering a party on Christmas Eve or morning to find poor people with no dinner and give them one. The game, playable by any number of participants, is claimed to bring more real enjoyment and merriment than any other game.
And Furnishing Goods presents a price list on mens wear including overcoats at 5.50 6.50 10.50 16 17 19 20 21 with select pieces like a Dobson overcoat at 5.50 and satin lined chinchilla at 17. Suits and youth wear priced from 5 to 22 featuring a double and twist all wool at 12. Boys and children's coats and suits discounted with bargains. underwear includes Contoocook A brand at 1.50 and Camel Hair items at 1.25 or 0.50 each.
In Vere Devonshire, Isabel Venn and the smuggler Robert Dare plan a Christmas wedding amid coast guard pressure and illicit trade. The couple's joy is tempered by law and danger as Dare schemes to import geese and wealth for the needy, culminating in a festive breakfast and a hopeful future.
A program features vocal and instrumental items by Clarence E Hay bass Laura L Beck soprano Mabel E Wilson pianist and an instrumental soloist to be announced. Also story telling and dialect reading by William B Green. A lecture by Sergei Stepniak on Siberian Exile.
The celebrated New York Philharmonic Club presents a winter concert by a six member sextette of premier chamber musicians. Season tickets go on sale starting Saturday, November 1, at H L Whitcombs store.
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