Christmas optimism and memory amid a changing world
The Austin Daily Herald opines that Christmas calls us home through gospel joy and family memory. It links Luke's nativity to personal nostalgia, citing Willa Cather's Bishop Lamy and Albert Schweitzer, who found strength in childhood recollections and the meaning of Christmas for all. Merry Christmas.
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David Poling
Willa Cather
Jean Lamy
Great
Southwest
North America
Santa Fe
Miss Cather
France
Auvergne
Lamy
Jesus Christ
Albert Schweitzer
Switzerland
Snow piles at cross walks raise safety concerns
A reader criticizes city snow removal for creating hazards by plowing piles at cross walks. He argues these obstacles risk injury to pedestrians and suggests legal recourse or proactive clearing by residents to prevent slides under passing cars.
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Cross Walks
A. J. Hunter
Sth Ave
Pets in Rentals Tests of Lease Rules and Waiver
A public service article explains how landlords may enforce no pets clauses, limits on pet numbers, and the risk of waiver when they tolerate pets. It cites cases of 25 cats and a parrot over years, noting tenant and landlord rights and discretion.
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Scotts
Rover
The Wise Men and the Nativity as Dramatic Truth
The article reflects on the Nativity story with Wise Men figures. It notes their influence, possible origins from Persia or Babylonia, and the longer journey to Palestine. It questions the meaning of gold frankincense and myrrh and why no further writings from the Magi exist.
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Bethlehem
Paul Maier
Herod
Jesus
Persia
Babylonia
Goodspeed
Palestine
Gifts of the Magi Gold Frankincense and Myrrh
The passage reflects on the gifts given to the infant Jesus by the Magi. Gold money and supplies for a family in exile while frankincense honors the royalty of Mary and the child and myrrh hints at death and embalming. It notes the danger posed by Herod and the journey to Egypt.
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Mary
Joseph
Herod
Israel
Egypt
Best Sellers and New Nonfiction Highlights
A reader’s advisory notes popular fiction titles such as Jonathan Livingston Seagull The Odessa File August 1914 Semi Tough On the Night of the Seventh Moon and related nonfiction works including Kissinger The Uses of Power and The Palermo Affair. It also previews a December display of bells by Georgia Cipra and a Dinah Shore kit chen cookbook with recipes and anecdotes.
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Jonathan Livingston
Seagull
Bach
Odessa
Forsyth
Solzhenitsyn
Jenkins
Holt
Georgia Cipra
Dinah
Dinah Shore
Thelma Newman
Social Security Q and A From Austin Office
A series of questions explains grandparent eligibility for grandchildren, reporting wages for household employees, and when Social Security taxes apply. It notes that grandparents may help grandchildren under new law, babysitters count as household employees, and tax rules hinge on quarterly and per-employer wage thresholds.
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Austin Social Security Office
2Nd St
Internal Revenue
Social Security
Internal Revenue Office
Quick Quiz Q What was the Holy Grail
The Holy Grail is the cup used by Jesus at the Last Supper. Legend says Joseph of Arimathea carried it to England, fueling tales of knightly quest and chivalric orders.
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Jesus
Joseph of
Arimathea
England
The Written Word Preserves Christmas Spirit Worldwide
Christmas Day 1972 praise of the written word as a global gift sustaining knowledge and the timeless Christmas story. It highlights Dickens and Moore, noting how The Night Before Christmas endures in culture and 어린 readers, and urges thanks for writing as a force for peace and wisdom.
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God
Christ
Tiny Tim
Charles Dickens
Clement C. Moore
Record of Christmas songs and ASCAP stats in a 20th century note
The ASCAP catalog shows vast Christmas song outputs led by White Christmas and Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer with high sales of records and sheet music. Dozens of variant titles span locations and themes including Christmas in Jail and Christmas Is for the Birds, noting 5000 plus Christmas titles and many seasonal lulls.
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ASCAP
American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers
Irving Berlin
Johnny Marks
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
California
Connecticut
Hawaii
Holland
Italy
Killarney
Mexico
New England
Paris
Rio
Sicily
Switzerland
Lone Prairie
Opinions of Others Short Takes
A collection of light editorial snippets commenting on taxation, reading, and political choices. Mentions include a jab about Utopia as a place where neighbors share taxes, a library motto on reading, a Louisiana governor sending his wife to the Senate, and a quip about vice presidential selection.
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Short
Denver Post
Louisiana
U.S. Senate
Boston
Turn Back the Clock 30 Years Ago Items Recap
Toys repaired by Austin firemen were delivered to the county welfare board for distribution. Service record booklets were sent to more than 1,000 Mower County men in the armed services as gifts of the Austin American Legion. Austin Girl Scouts supplied stamps for refugees. Ernest Dammann of Elkton Berkshire led the breed in the national production registry. Dr. J. C. Westenberger moved his office to his residence after 50 years at Koch Building. About 15 percent of the Austin National Guard Armory construction near the Municipal Airport and Interstate is complete. James Wagner, treasurer of Wagner Construction Co, commented.
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Palermo
Colin Forbes
Sicily
James Petrie
Vito Scelba
Ed Zimmerman
Tom Sharpe
South Africa
Kommandant
Police
Austin
County Welfare Board
Mower County
Armed Services
Austin American Legion
Austin Girl Scouts
Ernest Dammann
Elkton Berkshire
J. C. Westenberger
St. Ansgar
Koch
Austin National Guard
James Wagner
Wagner Construction Co
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Publishers’ Weekly Fiction
Harris
Peter
Nena
George O'Neill
Eleanor
Lash
Acts
St. Luke, the Evangelist
Austin Public Library
Popular Mechanics
Joseph & Lois Bird
Ade Campbell Rose
National Geographic Society
Kissinger
David Landau
United States
New York
Hitler
Germany
Richard Nixon
China
Soviet Union
Vietnam
Henry Kissinger
Anthony Quinn
America
Los
Holly Rollers
Aimee Semple McPherson
Minneapolis
NEA
Library A la Carte
Albert Lea
Green
Marks
Rudolph
George Washington
2Nd St. N.E
Minnesota
Edmund E. Smith
Thomas J. Koeck
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