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Newspaper
Bayard News
Location
Bayard, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1968
Page
13
Fragmentary text from a Farmers State Bank notice in Bevers fess Bayard mentions executor names and dates in December 1968. The document appears to record estate actions or probate filings with multiple dates and officials listed in a historic newspaper fragment.
The article recalls old traditions of St Nicholas legends in Denmark, Norway, Holland, and Spain. It notes Nisse the house spirit in the north, St Nicholas arriving on December 5 with a white donkey, and children leaving hay and carrots for animals. In Spain on Twelfth Night the Wise Men bring gifts and children fill shoes with straw to feed their horses.
The piece traces Christmas carols from 13th century origins to modern times. It notes anonymous early writers, the Boar’s Head Carol at Oxford, and the Puritan ban followed by revival in the Restoration era with carols persisting into the 18th century.
The fragment lists carols including Adeste Fideles, The Herald Angels Sing, Joy to the World, Silent Night with words by Joseph Mohr. It adds a legend of Silent Night’s writing in 1818 Hallein Austria and then devolves into garbled chatter about coal, masks, and unrelated phrases.
A humorous plea from a writer asking Santa to fulfill small, personal requests. The list includes replacements of unlikely items, clothing alterations, and practical hopes like keeping gifts exchanged, cleaning soot, and a wish to live meaningfully without money in the new year.
A fragmented note describes making a creche from cornfield picks to form infant Jesus figures. The text mentions Mary and Joseph and references corn kernels, water, and pipes in unclear phrasing.
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