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Newspaper
Athena Press
Location
Athena, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Dec 31, 1909
Page
6
A bachelor girl declares a New Year resolve to change Christmas giving. She will stop giving to many and instead gift only to three or four truly worthy recipients, sending notes to forewarn relatives and asking others to mirror the plan, hoping every dollar brings real joy. The plan emphasizes simplicity, restraint, and meaningful generosity.
A Texas sheep ranch wife recalls New Year’s Day when her husband did not return for dinner. Eggnog overindulgence left him sleeping on his horse, delaying their meal while she managed a rabbit dinner and toiled in rustic conditions. The tale contrasts eastern cooking with frontier life and the couple’s brief reconciliation after the misadventure.
A Brittany district known as Plougastel Daoulas hosts a New Year custom where basralaines broker marriages among local strawberry growers. On the first Tuesday of the year, up to 23 couples wed in the parish church, followed by feasting and dancing. Couples begin married life the next evening after a dead-mass service, then return to separate homes.
Fragmentary verse riffing on a narrator who finds life and love curiously inverted by fate. The speaker laments a mind judged different, a dull dinner talk, and a mortifying domestic life, ending with a vow to quit writing and a flamboyant literary flourish.
In Lucian's account a physician from a shore town joins Apollonias of medicine in an early tale. Alexander, tall and handsome, befriends Coconnas a con man and sets up a sham cult of Aesculapius using a trained giant snake and a carved talking face. He deceives crowds, amasses wealth, and exerts influence in Rome before dying renowned.
Rev. A. O. Hammond, pastor, announces Sunday school at 10 a.m. preaching at 1 p.m. Epworth League devotional at 0:80, preaching at 7:30 p.m. Ladies Aid Society meets Wednesday at 1 p.m. Prayer meeting Thursday at 7:30 p.m.
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