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Newspaper
Bessemer Herald
Location
Bessemer, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1909
Page
2
A poem by Minna Irving portrays a scarlet coated soldier meeting a pretty maid under an ancient oak in a snowy wood. The scene recalls a winter tale where a slender unsheathed saber guards mistletoe, and the lovers haunt the wintry forest as the oak bends with time.
A misfit fir tree defies a city bound fate and escapes the sled to the cottage of poor children. Forest animals aid its journey back toward home where it becomes the Christmas centerpiece and all share a quiet, hopeful celebration.
The New Year custom in America traces to the Dutch era. Old Peter Stuyvesant hosted festive gatherings at New Amsterdam and witnessed widespread kissing of young, handsome women for luck. Dutch revelry contrasted with Puritan restraint as quoted from the New York Evening Post.
The passage argues that Christmas emotions should be present year round. It emphasizes love, goodwill, kindness, unselfishness, and cheerfulness as the essence of Christmas, not just on December 25th, urging love to rule through every day of the year.
A faded verse from Judge McGorry and influences of a New Year prayer. The piece mixes dialect exchanges about weather and frost with a sentiment asking God to keep the reader’s mind pure and reason sound through the coming year.
The poem recalls the Bethlehem Christmas star first seen at the manger and describes its enduring light through millennia. It contrasts earthly darkness with the star’s glow, noting its reach from tropic seas to Arctic shores and its role as a guiding lamp toward Paradise.
In Ballyboggin a hurried Watson seeks a faster route home for his fourth annual Santa Claus performance. He hires a buggy to Hardwick to catch an Esmont express freight into Chicago, but the trip stalls as the freight train moves and stalls, testing his patience and resolve.
The cartoonish quip about Christmas presents hints at the common joke that money alone cannot buy happiness. A seller’s humor pun notes how gifts and affection define holiday cheer more than wealth.
The scene shows Watson climbing to the cupola to ask the brakeman what the delay is, learning they are waiting for a Ballyboggin 2:10 passenger to pass. Midnight arrives as Watson reaches home after an eventful ride. The Chicago News notes the tense moment and Watson's astonishment at the wait.
The London Chronicle notes a New Year breakfast in Japan treated as a religious rite, with no ordinary food. Water from the first sunlit well, a prescribed spread on a red lacquer stand, and sake in a red cup symbolize happiness and prosperous years ahead.
Instructions describe making imitation snowballs using wire, diamond powder and cotton batting for tree decoration. Vary ball sizes from apple to orange and finish by dusting with powder. Also included is a plain pudding sauce recipe with cornstarch butter sugar water and egg thickened over heat.
In a Sunday school scene a kind man asks the children where the pretty things in their stockings on Christmas morning come from. The children respond in unison that they come from Germany, in a line that reflects a historical perspective.
In a casual exchange Johnny-Tommy discuss combine funds for a Christmas present. They joke about buying a "noice" gift and consider a padded supper for someone unnamed, reflecting lighthearted local humor from the Texas Siftings page.
A Brooklyn Life note reflects on children hanging stockings and the belief in a real Santa Claus filling them, celebrating holiday spirit and faith.
The Chicago Tribune reminds readers that excessive holiday cheer should not compromise a joyful New Year, urging balance between festivity and prudence as the year turns.
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