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Newspaper
Bessemer Herald
Location
Bessemer, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1941
Page
2
A set of five multiple choice items covering Christmas lore. Questions ask about the star of Bethlehem, the opening bars of a Christmas song, the large Yule log tradition, a pictured man at night, and the number of Santa’s reindeer.
Michigan highlights include Westfall and Ingalls headed East in the Shrine Game, a December 12 swimming gala under Matt Mann, and Julius Franks as the second Black player to win a Varsity football letter. It notes Big Ten titles counts, 1941 attendance records, and 1942 schedule links with Harvard and Notre Dame.
Poem honors the Star of Bethlehem guiding wise men to the Christ child on a Syrian hill. It asks for the Star to illuminate Earth’s loneliest places with charity and wisdom, inviting gifts and devotion before the King in Bethlehem.
The language of flowers links mistletoe to a kiss request based on a Scandinavian myth. Dancers under hanging mistletoe must pluck berries to grant each kiss, and when berries run out the spell ends. A maiden receiving no kisses under it risks not marrying that year.
The Herald previews a top 1942 gridiron attraction: Michigan and Notre Dame meet for the ninth time, first since 1909, at South Bend on November 14 with a 1942 schedule listing games against Michigan State, Iowa, Northwestern, Minnesota, Illinois, Harvard, Notre Dame, and Ohio State, across Ann Arbor, Minneapolis, and Columbus venues.
A recipe collection advertises pattern cookies self frosting anise cookies frosted honey bars with steps, ingredients and baking times. Includes instructions for shaping, rolling, frosting and storage plus a humorous diner exchange about changing an order to a petition.
Two actors discuss a stage career with snippets about playing Hamlet out West and a seven mile run referenced as a measure of distance or effort in their exchange.
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