20 Dec 1951
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Newspaper
Big Piney Examiner
Location
Big Piney, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1951
Page
1
Decorate with paper ornaments greenery and simple centerpieces for Christmas and New Year parties. Create mini trees punch bowls with festive rings and use glittered branches and Santa themed props to charm guests.
A humorous verse imagining Stalin as Santa Claus delivering a Soviet Christmas. The speaker jokes about Red virtues and propaganda while critiquing Christmas in a Kremlin context, with Stalin visiting the narrator’s house and demanding papers as proof of being Red. The tone blends satire with historical personas and festive imagery.
Kathleen Norris urges a thoughtful Christmas prioritizing prayer over shopping and entertaining. She recalls Christ’s message of forgiveness and love, urging readers to live by that law amid modern fear and divisions.
Two Duke University economists advise that inflation is here to stay and Americans should adjust. They urge shoppers to monitor sales and plan ahead, save before spending, and avoid unnecessary purchases to cut high interest costs. They note large inventories and price reductions justify buying durable goods now.
The article contrasts early Americans dipping tallow to make plain practical candles with today’s varied Yuletide candles. It notes shapes like Santas, church spires, snow balls, and pine scented trees, highlighting a factory in Hyannisport, Massachusetts that grew from a hobby into a mass supplier for millions of homes.
Time alters Christmas customs from ancestors to today. Adornments evolve yearly with new shapes, while classic glass globes remain. New items include oddly shaped figures and a plastic bird, as markets eye pre decorated trees that simply plug in like a toaster.
The first Christmas Seals sale drew early buyers from circles with personal TB ties. Philadelphia columnist Leigh M Hodges publicized the event in 1907 after witnessing a newsboy buy a seal, noting the line Me sister's got it. The effort grew as four years of fundraising built awareness that TB could be wiped out by collective action.
Puritans derided the Christmas pie known as mince pie calling it unworthy. John Bunyan faced a moral dilemma in prison choosing starvation over accepting a mince pie. Ancient cooks shaped the pie like a manger as a delicacy.
Pattern 5205 includes complete dieting instructions materials required stitch illustrations and finishing directions for a baby set.
An exchange features an old man asking for a universal solvent and a response calling it a worthy idea. Zeb considers the concept and questions how to contain such a liquid once found. The fragment closes with a humorous character definition of a Communist as one who borrows a pot to cook your goose.
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