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Newspaper
Big Piney Examiner
Location
Big Piney, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Jan 23, 1913
Page
7
The piece describes how household dolls reflect old time styles and how modern girls imitate Queen Victoria and Empress Eugénie in outfits. It suggests mothers raid fabric scraps for doll outfits featuring brocade, lace, and bonnet details, with menswear like swallowtail coats and light trousers.
A vintage collection of bake at home desserts including Butter Cakes Cocoanut Cake Citron Cake and Almond Jumbles with steps for mixing beating and baking. Recipes call for butter sugar flour baking powder cinnamon eggs brandy sherry and almond flavoring with tips on icing coconut topping and shaping.
Holiday table ideas describe quick and elaborate holly decorations. Simple bowls with holly twigs and red berries suit quick seating, while three wreaths joined along the table spine create a dramatic centerpiece with carnat ions or roses in bowls. A round table can feature a Santa sleigh wreath with candy snowballs.
A how to guide lists recipes for Popcorn Halls Molasses Balls Toasted Marshmallows Molasses Candy Chocolate Creams Chocolate Caramels and an Accompaniment to Roast Turkey with Spanish chestnuts. It provides step by step measures cooking times and methods for toasting shaping and cooling the confections.
Practical presents for boys urge choosing gifts that sustain interest and offer learning value rather than impulsive toys. A guide to thoughtful shopping emphasizes durable educational items over flashy trinkets for young boys.
A Dutch widow Mrs Van Loon prays for bread for her four hungry children. Her activist son Dirk suggests ravens will bring food as in biblical times. The burgomaster passes, finds the door open, and with Dirk’s cue orders bread and butter. The children cheer as Dirk thanks the Lord.
A traveler recalls a Swedish Christmas custom observed near Gothenburg. Each farmhouse displays a high pole with a sheaf of grain in the yard to feed wild birds during Christmastide, a gesture meant to share the birds' joy of the season.
In Saxon Times tradition recorded, an ox was roasted whole over the Yule log at Christmas marking a festive Saxon and Norman practice.
An elderly woman named Ita Paunle recalls a life of care for her sick mother and a thwarted urge to travel. On a winter train she learns that a doctor secured a patent royalty for her late mother’s lifting machine, funding a trip to Niagara Falls. She smiles toward the journey ahead as the train moves west.
In a holiday vignette Edward, seven, gifts abound on Christmas morning and he plans to send coffee by chimney to Santa Claus. He pours coffee and cream into a cup, asks his mother about it, and imagines warming Santa’s belly with a bowl of jelly as thanks for the gifts.
A quirky listing assigns tree types to groups or roles such as Spruce for dudes and Fir for winter belles, Pine for lovers, Chestnut for jokers, Sycamore for doctors, and Plane for carpenters, blending playful wordplay with tree names.
Fragmentary note appears to address Gants Claus with garbled lines and misspelled phrases. The readable portions reference letters from Wo Rents Claes and requests to send items or copies, with scattered words like tele and order. No coherent event or outcome is discernible.
Edward M. Grout of New York City recounts a Christmas story where a girl visiting her grandmother finds gifts and, in a moment of belief, prays to Santa Claus to wake and remember her wish. The tale blends childlike faith with a gentle family scene.
Fragmentary reader note in a dialect voice describing a woman urging repairs or construction by Santy. The piece hints at starting work and pride in housing despite incomplete lines and unclear actions.
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