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Newspaper
Albion New Era
Location
Albion, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1909
Page
6
A Bethlehem Christmas poem recalls a single lantern from a stable as the Christmas star guiding the King of Peace. The star’s glow endures through ages and worlds, lighting graves and seas, a beacon to Paradise from Metropolitan.
Watson rushes to Chicago to keep his fourth Santa Claus appearance. He chases a Hardwick freight to save time, bribes a driver, and endures delays as the train finally pulls in past midnight. The piece ends with a seasonal reflection on perpetual goodwill and Christmas spirit.
The New York Evening Post credits Dutch influence for New Year customs in the colonies. Under Peter Stuyvesant, cheerful gatherings at the governor’s home in New Amsterdam featured a kiss for a happy new year, distinguishing the lively Dutch tradition from Puritan restraint.
New Year's Day prayer for a dear one asking divine protection and guidance through joys and sorrows. The speaker wishes the person to stay sweet brave and true with sound reason and pure heart as life unfolds and mysteries arise.
A reflective note on Christmas shifting from festive trappings to focus on love and enduring meaning rather than decorations and exchanges.
A simple DIY ornament uses a perforated toilet powder box to dust powder onto a wire ball. The wire end forms a fastening and the ball sizes range from small apple to large orange for tree decoration.
A New Year breakfast described as a religious rite uses sunlit water tea and a ceremonial red lacquer tray with a symbolic spread. Lobster sardines oranges and herring roe symbolize longevity conjugal bliss and progeny while some dishes remain uneaten.
A simple homemade ornament uses a coil of fine picture wire a box of diamond powder and cotton batting. Wire is cut into short lengths a wad of cotton is placed on each piece and shaped to resemble snowballs for tree decoration.
A humorous note from Texas Siftings imagines a Sunday school scene where a man asks children where Christmas gifts come from and the kids reply Germany. A line about buying a present leads to a joking suggestion of a padded slipper as a gift.
A humorous exchange about buying a wife’s Christmas present. A husband jokes his wife keeps all their presents hidden in a closet, inaccessible to him during the holiday season.
A Brooklyn Life blurb reflects on children hanging stockings and the comforting belief in a genuine Santa Claus who will fill them, contrasting faith with everyday wonder.
The piece argues women must develop emergency self reliance through quick decisive action. It notes many women falter due to doubt after deciding and stresses concentration and conviction improve outcomes in everyday tasks and emergencies. It also contrasts perceived male and female approaches to tools and technique.
The text discusses parenting tips preferring self-soothing for infants, notes the first woman to receive the M. A. C. P. award, and profiles women in charitable work art oil wealth and mining. It also mentions Mrs. Howard Van Wyck returning to Milwaukee, Miss Aliee Fischer voting in Cheyenne at high cost, and various cultural beauty practices across nations.
Economical school garments include knitted Norfolk jackets and reefer coats offered by tailors or knitted at home by busy mothers. Girls wear gray white scarlet green or brown versions with satin bindings and crocheted buttons. Some are double breasted with roomy sleeves and turnover collars worn over kilt skirts and blouse waists.
A brown cloth tailor-made outfit features a very long jacket with pointed sides and braiding along the revers. Front and side large buttons, blue velvet collar, and a felt hat raised on one side complete the ensemble.
Miss Joan Hamilton of the Lesgee of Women Workers reports 11 000 members across five states. She says working girls face tougher times and their clubs lack leaders. Crowded factory districts lure with dance halls, offering affordable recreation after long shifts.
A contemporary asks why women’s buttons seem to fasten from the wrong side and considers there may be a historical or practical reason behind the so called rule of correct buttoning in clothing debates.
Practical guidance covers crying infants, feeding water needs, and avoiding soothing syrups. Advice on burns, mental relaxation, and avoiding medicine excess. Also notes on nutrition, obesity prevention, and social topics including probation officer appointment, women in Parliament, and cosmetic body practices in various cultures.
Hat fashion shifts from meek mushrooms to turned up brim designs. The Henry IV style uses silk faced with velvet and dark fur with silk quill trimming. Side details include aigrettes and coral mercury wings, all in brown tones with contrasting wing color.
A home laundry note explains washing blankets by boiling soap in water, soaking, turning with a stick, then rinsing in a second tub and drying in the sun. It follows with a burglary report where the thief confesses hidden bills and valuables before escaping, and ends with a reflection on small souls.
A collage of short quips and jokes from various papers including Tit-Bits Kansas City Journal Cleveland Plain Dealer and Chicago Tribune. Witty exchanges about fashion hats love and daily life appear with playful misreadings and punning asides across many era newspapers.
An advertisement touts Vitalizer tablets as a cure for nervousness irritability lack of confidence and weak manly vigor. It claims a first dose provides noticeable energizing effects and urges readers to avoid harmful drugs by spending a dollar on this remedy. The notice cites Munyon at 58th and Jefferson. A separate item recounts a Glasgow Herald note on hypnotic power in animals a blackbird near Elgin freezes under approaching weasels then flees after a frightful cry.
A Delphos Ohio woman Mrs L C Fridley recalls worsening kidney trouble over years and credits Doan's Kidney Pills with restoring her health after three years of good condition. Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY markets them at 50 cents a box.
In dialogue, Marie asks about the frequent visitor to see Bessie and John cautions speaking of the young men as potential sons-in-law. Marie then asks for the adventurer’s name in a playful exchange.
An Indiana woman describes coffee causing dyspepsia and illness until she switched to Postum. After following the recipe, breakfast without coffee ends stomach troubles and she now views Postum as essential. The ad invites readers to look in packages for The Road to Wellville and asks if they have read the letter.
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