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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Dec 12, 1957
Page
12
A man starts his day with plain tasks and finds relief as the morning brings calm. He notes a lack of progress in his work yet accepts the progress of a customer paying for shoes, enabling the maker to complete two. Evening brings rest and the plan to begin anew tomorrow.
In a Christmas time scene a shoemaker and his wife hide to watch two naked dwarfs craft shoes overnight. The elves finish the work, leaving the couple rich. The wife then outfits the elves, who in turn sew better, and the story ends with the elves thriving and departing contentedly.
Historians trace lighted trees to Luther era and a 16th century countryside moment. Candies simulated starlit skies on evergreens, then lights spread from Rhineland to Germany and Europe, crossing the Atlantic with soldiers, reaching France and Paris by 1890.
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