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Newspaper
Akron Register Tribune
Location
Akron, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1940
Page
5
Pattern 2645 contains charts and directions for making potholders with illustrations of methods and stitches. Materials needed include yarn or cloth, needles, and other basic supplies. The item cites instructions to send an order to a listed address for purchase.
Holiday ad promotes Prince Albert tobacco in one pound gift tins with festive wrapping and gift cards. Targets male shoppers with a ready to give tin to bring Christmas morn cheer. Available at tobacco stores and dealers during the season.
Brice Harper returns home after three years away to a month long Christmas stay at Aunt Margaret and Uncle Jack Holmes farm. She plans a festive pre holiday gathering with friends, a decorated tree, and shared meals. The family's cheerful reunion includes five visiting girls, a large Christmas tree, and lively carols as winter comforts return.
The Cleveland Plain Dealer notes that Silent Night was written by Joseph Mohr, born 1792 in Salzburg, and composed by Franz Gruber, born 1787 in Hochburg. Mohr served as a priest at Laufen on the Salzach when the carol was penned in 1818, later serving various pastorates before his death in 1848. Gruber, Arnsdorf’s schoolmaster, also wrote music for other hymns.
A nostalgic plea from the Goodfellow Club urging Santa Claus supporters to aid needy families this Christmas season. The piece emphasizes charitable effort as the finest expression of Christmas spirit and encourages individuals to contribute without seeking return.
Experts in kindergarten training describe a successful plaything as durable and safe. Flimsy toys breed carelessness and destructiveness while well designed toys are large and simple, easy to clean and non threatening. They should avoid splinters edges or sharp rims and support both individual and group play.
A simple Santa mask craft uses an 18 by 24 inch heavy wrapping paper sheet. Sketch features with pencil, color the hat red white whiskers blue eyes and pink cheeks, outline with black lines to finish.
A column urges couples to see spouses and children as whole people not as roles. It recounts a wife Martha who balanced work, home duties, and two sons, while husband Dave resists her returning to work, highlighting tensions over autonomy, home life, and happiness.
Mrs Milligan and Mrs Graystone, long neighbors, exchange sharp words over a back fence. Milligan accuses Graystone of odd stockings, and Graystone retorts with a gentle irony about having more than one pair, turning the moment into a sly domestic quip.
Local dealers feature Camel gift packages for the holidays. The Camel carton 10 packs in a handsome holiday dress and a Christmas package of forty five packs offer ready to give gifts to smokers.
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