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Newspaper

Attica Ledger Press

Location

Attica, Indiana, United States of America

Date

Dec 12, 1913

Page

15

Travelers' Goods Offer at Haller The Hatter

A local ad promotes a large variety of travelers' goods at affordable prices. Haller The Hatter invites customers to visit and inspect bags suitcases and trunks as potential Christmas gifts.

A Christmas Song by Lydia Avery Coonley

A Christmas poem notes Bethlehem star and shepherds as wise men follow to the joy of a newborn Child. An angel proclaims rejoice for history records this Child as King.

Bethlehem Lydia Avery Coonley

A Christmas Blessing for Patients

A heartfelt Christmas greeting wishing God’s blessing on every patient life. May faith bring gentle cheer and hope point to roses near while tender love and true friends make the season blessed.

Money For Christmas Money For Christmas

A private loan offer promises quick cash for the holidays by sending an agent to your home. It advertises loans from five to one hundred sixty dollars for household goods, pianos, horses, or vehicles without removal, claiming licensed operation and new legal rates.

Public Memory Quip Marks Tax Debate Framing

A terse remark says the public has a short memory and politicians resist tax measures. The comment frames how voter recall influences fiscal policy and legislative strategy.

Lonely Christmas Returner Finds A Warm Tree Guest

A man returned after twenty years abroad faces loneliness as he visits his childhood town. He encounters a girl delivering gifts and a silver matchbox, then learns of a Christmas tree for local children. A shy invitation from a child draws him downstairs to share in their festive gathering.

Dandlady Papa Mamma Annie Bey England

Dolci Painting Sparks Christmas Change in England Home

The tale follows a stranger welcomed by a kind family during Christmas after a child hints at a gift from a benefactor. The father insists the visitor join for dinner and plum pudding, transforming loneliness into friendship and hope for a future with Annie.

Christmas Stockings and Santa Claus Poem

The poem describes hanging stockings for each family member including baby mother father siblings and grandparents. It urges Santa to bring gifts and notes a political conscience guiding the father toward the right side. The piece closes with a hopeful Christmas morning and credits Ethel Bridges.

Santa Claus

Marconi Jests at Wireless Piano During London Reception

A young woman mistook Marconi for Mascagni and asked to hear his Intermezzo. Marconi replied with wit that he would gladly play it but on a wireless piano, prompting amusement at the social gathering in London.

London Marconi Mascagni

Scribbler Spins Acrobatic Notes On Land Footnotes

A playful exchange hints that the Scribbler crafts nimble prose with surprising land footnotes. The dialog underscores a quirky authorial voice weaving lists and observations into a showy narrative style.

Christmas Treasures By Eugene Field

Poem narrates a father recalling Christmas memories with his baby son. The speaker describes small keepsakes and a stocking ritual, contrasting childhood wonder with a later sense of loss as angels visit and the child grows. The piece reflects memory, faith, and enduring parental love.

For This Christmas Ye Old Time Stave

A compact verse recalling Christmas revelry in taverns wassail halls and banquet rooms. The speaker invites merry gentlemen and gentlewomen to rest merry and keep the season with hearty song and cheer.

James Whitcomb Riley

Christmas Pardon Brightens Convict Family in Chicago Tribune

A wife clings to hope as her husband, jailed for a bank case, returns home for Christmas with pending parole. The governor grants an unconditional pardon after a flood of support, allowing the family to celebrate a brief reunion before the man must surrender.

John John Anstruther Anstruther Santa Claus Grace Abraham Chicago ‘Tribune

Not the Maiden Goes a Shopping Train

A humorous verse notes a daughter shopping for a gift for her father as the New Year approaches and jokes about a bill arriving for the price of the present.

Red Cross Christmas Seals Origins and History Revealed

The article traces the Red Cross Christmas seal back to 1908 when Miss Emily P. Bissell popularized the stamp for tuberculosis relief in Delaware. Jacob Riis and Bissell helped expand its national sale, which grew from modest beginnings to hundreds of thousands and later millions of seals raising funds for anti tuberculosis work. It notes earlier charity stamps dating to 1502 and the global use of stamps for medical aid.

United States Jacob Riis New York Emily P. Bissell Delaware Red Cross Society American Red Cross Red Cross Boston Portugal Switzerland Austria Pranece Spain Denmark Norway Russia Sweden America

Dream of lifeboats on ocean liners shocks sleeper

A man recalls a dream in which ships carried lifeboats while other comforts vanished. He questions whether the dream was real, insisting the vision was vividly felt. The exchange ends with a light remark that the dream seems uncanny.

Also Mentioned on This Page

Haller the Hatter Attica Indiana Loan Company N. W. Cor 3Rd & Main Sts Lafayette Ind BELL Gospel Trumpet Company Anderson George Lutz Avenue Kramer F. E. Stephens Indiana Missouri D. Mahoney 6Th Street Carlo Dolci Madonna Santa Clara Grandma Ethel Bridges Eugene Field Zeigler’s Zeigler Florence Redfield Camden Oneida Oswego J. C. Dinsmore Westdale N. Y
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