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Newspaper
Argus
Location
Fremont, California, United States of America
Date
Dec 25, 1971
Page
10
Linn Brown editor reports on Arcus Line Timers at a Tuesday event. The article notes performances by individual athletes and mentions local sponsors and venues.
An editorial page celebrates Yuletide with prose and poetry and highlights Christmas spirit in Newark and Hayward. It notes teens aiding mentally retarded youngsters, helpers aiding an elderly woman, patient clerks, courteous shoppers, and a sincere Salvation Army bell ringer. The piece urges readers to keep the spirit alive beyond the holiday, and to remember that none are so strong they cannot use others.
A 1959 parable by Louis Cassels tells of a honest man who doubts the incarnation. On Christmas Eve he treats animals in distress, tries to help them, and finally kneels to understand the Christmas message as church bells ring.
In Dickens Christmas Carol the Cratchit family gathers for a modest feast. Bob Cratchit serves a goose, pudding, and potables while Tiny Tim, in his frail frame, shares hopeful thoughts of charity and blessing.
A fragmentary biblical narrative recounts Caesar Augustus taxing all the world and Joseph and Mary traveling to Bethlehem. It describes the birth of Jesus in a manger with shepherds, angels praising God, and the shepherds sharing the news. Mary ponders these events as they depart.
A historical editor's riff on the 1897 New York Sun classic Is There a Santa Claus, recounting Virginia O’Hanlon's query and the paper’s famous reply. The piece frames belief, imagination, and faith as enduring human truths, promising Santa Claus exists as surely as love and generosity.
The poem depicts St. Nicholas visiting a home on Christmas Eve with eight reindeer, a pipe smoking Santa in fur and soot, and stockings hung by the chimney. It popularized Santa’s image and the reindeer names, and closes with a festive greeting for all.
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