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Mabel's Christmas Cigar and the Heaven Bound Gift
A widow and daughter in New York cope with a fallen soldier father and a cigar that survives tragedy. Mabel, believing Santa to be in heaven, mails her late father a Christmas present, a ruined cigar, via the New York post office. The clerk aids the girl, and the gift reaches the widow, though Mabel remains certain the cigar awaits its final blaze in paradise.
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OM Rafferty
Santiago
Mabel
Tom
Ball
Tom Rafferty
New York
Mrs. Rafferty
Santa Claus
Mom
Cuba
New York Post Office
Cherub
Butte
Ile
Hudson River Railroad
Paradis
Mubal