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Newspaper
Batesville Tribune
Location
Batesville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1909
Page
7
The poem recalls the Bethlehem night and a lantern in a stable guiding to the manger of the Prince of Peace. It travels beyond centuries and worlds, a star over shore and sea, lighting the way to Paradise.
Watson hustles to reach Chicago for his fourth Santa Claus appearance. Detained in Pallyboggin he hops a freight from Hardwick to catch an Egmont express, but the slow, jumbled freight train delays him, leaving him frustrated as the train finally moves.
The scene follows Watson as he climbs the car to the cupola and awaits a passing passenger. The brakeman confirms the 2 10 from Ballyboggin is the target, and the group prepares to start as the clock nears midnight. Watson returns home afterward.
The London Chronicle notes New Year’s breakfast in Japan as a religious rite. A sunlit water tea, a sacred assortment on an elysian stand, and a red lacquer cup of sake symbolize happiness. Dishes carry allegorical meanings like lobster for long life and sardines for conjugal bliss.
Instructions for homemade imitation snowballs using wire powder and cotton. Then a recipe for plain pudding sauce with cornstarch butter sugar egg and boiling water. A Sunday school anecdote discusses where Christmas stockings come from with a German origin. A quip about children buying a present with a padded slipper and a Brooklyn Life note on stockings and Santa Claus.
The Chicago Tribune urges readers to balance festivity with prudence as the year turns. It counsels reflecting on the past and planning wisely for the coming year, promoting hopeful, cautious optimism.
An old winter tale features a scarlet clad soldier and a mistletoe maid, with a wintry oak and a hardy little fir that seeks to stay with children. Animals guide the tree home as Christmas nears, the forest whispering of sacrifice and hope.
A forest of fir trees hear they will be cut and carried away to the city. One small tree fears missing its promised home with poor lumberman children who choose it as their Christmas tree. A cold dawn comes as axes fall on the forest.
A small fir tree runs away from the forest and is carried to a farmer’s house by children. Wild forest animals help decorate the tree with gifts while the owl the rabbit and the deer express Christmas wishes. The lumberman accepts the tree, and the children share Merry Christmas.
The New Year custom in our country owes much to the Dutch and Old Peter Stuyvesant. Festivities at the governor's home in New Amsterdam included cheery gatherings and a practice of kissing for a happy new year. The Dutch celebrated vigorously while Puritans kept to work, noting the occasion with a sober record.
The piece argues Christmas spirit should extend beyond a single day. It emphasizes love, good will, unselfishness, and cheeriness as daily virtues, urging that a year filled with Christ carries the best of Christmas every day.
A judge quips about almanac makers and cold weather jokes about a harsh New Year and heat in July. The dialogue touches on frost on the Fourth and the public’s tongue hanging from the heat, reflecting humorous rural speech.
A New Year's verse asks God to keep a loved one brave true and sound through life’s joys sorrows and mysteries. The note by B MecM Bell in the Bark reflects wishes for reason mind and heart. A light joke asks about Christmas gifts as money and happiness mingle with holiday cheer.
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