Christmas Gift Idea From KGL Bhd Store
The notice touts KGL Bhd offering practical attractive furniture at low prices. It emphasizes years of experience and asks shoppers to visit the store for useful, handsome gifts rather than expensive items.
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Newspaper
Bedford Free Press
Location
Bedford, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1905
Page
3
Beautify the Home with Racks and Cases
A shopping list of home organization items including racks for clothes and plates, music stands, center tables, paper holders, book cases, kitchen cabinets, and foot stools. Emphasis is on available varieties and the utility of decluttering spaces.
Christmas Eve Service in Basilica Scene
A fragment describes a Nativity themed Christmas event at a basilica grotto with a Latino chorus and a modest procession. It notes a silver cement marker and gathering of people in blue dresses and peaked caps, with a focus on ceremonial seating and early 10 o clock activities marked by chant and music.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Christ Basilica
St. Srotto
Avith
Jeru
Nativity procession at dimly lit church scene
A long chanting procession winds through a dim church to the grotto of the Nativity. Priests pause at a silver star bearing the inscription Here he was born of a virgin. The gospel narrative is recited and the figure placed in a rock cut manger, ending the service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Crypt
Jesus
London Sphere
Mistletoe customs and charms in past beliefs
The article notes English girls expect a kiss under mistletoe within a year, with berries plucked for each kiss and none if berries are gone. It recalls mistletoe as a protective charm against witches and as irresistibly binding, forcing both matron and maid to succumb to the tradition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Self Culture Magazine
Christmas Candy Recipe From Old Text
A vintage recipe explains dissolving chocolate caramels over a fire with molasses and sugar. It instructs adding grated chocolate and butter, boiling, then pouring into buttered dishes to set, and cutting into one inch squares.
Christmas In Cornwall Yule Log Night Traditions
In Cornwall Christmas Eve is a special holiday with children allowed to sit up till midnight and drink to the mock as the Yule log is called there.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cornwall
London Man Traps Mouse, Escapes Gas Fiend
Edgar Wallace of London set a trap in his room for a mouse. After falling asleep he woke to a room filling with gas from a half and a half turned burner. He turned off the gas and freed the mouse, a life for a life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edgar Wallace
London
To Harden Birthday Candles On Ice Before Use
The article notes that small birthday candles often fail to stand upright until they have burned long enough. It suggests that candles harden wonderfully if placed on ice for a few hours before use.
For Tom's Sake A Christmas Tree Changes Two Lives
A rich store Christmas tree becomes the centerpiece of a Christmas miracle. A poor girl Maggie asks for a tree for her sick brother Tommy and Miss Margaret Stanhope offers help, transforming their modest home with gifts and warmth. The act binds them through shared charity and a heartfelt request.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Otho B. Senga
Warden & Joyce
Tommy
Chiki
Margaret Stanhope
Commonwealth Avenue
Maggie “LI
Burpham
Maggie
Miss Stanhope
Burnham Street
Tom
Santa Claua German Origin and Saint Nicholas
Santa Claus, of German origin, derives from the German name for St. Nicholas. The old man figure stems from ancient feasts marking year’s end and new beginnings. Saint Nicholas was a fourth century bishop of Myra, patron of children and schoolboys, linked to gift giving in celebrations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Santa Claua
St. Nicholas
Saturn
Thor
Io St. Nicholas
Nicholas
Myra
New York Mill and Express
Christmas in Rome Fish Auction Draws Crowds at Dawn
Christmas in Rome features the éottio auction of fish at San Teodoro near the forum. Each year the market draws large crowds of buyers and sightseers in the early hours, with rows of stalls packed in a bustling, circular market atmosphere.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San ‘Teodoro
Forum
Bankhead Endorses Peruna Catarrh Remedy
Congressmen J H Bankhead of Alabama lauds Peruna from Washington in a letter praising it as a radical catarrh cure. He claims the remedy has stood a half century test and cured thousands, urging readers to try it and seek Dr Hartman for guidance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gonzalo de Quesada
J.H. Bankhead
Alabama
House of Representatives
Washington, D. C
Dr. Hartman
Also Mentioned on This Page
Ent
Bread
Hcake Maker
Food Chopper
KGL Bhd Paha
DE Flarchets
Cuttlery Department
DE Hammers
Bedford
Iowa
Pontifien
Mily
Santa Claus
Rome
U. S
Peruna
Marti
Perunan Medicine Company
Washington, D.C
Senor Quesada
Cao Amle
Bankhead
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