Annual Christmas Gift Guide
Four tips guide readers to thoughtful gifting across groups. For Health & Home lovers the list includes a family Bible monogrammed photo album and fireplace gear. Do-It-Yourselfers receive brushes material nails screws a tool set and upholstery kit. Eggheads get a world globe engraved plates a book club membership and a fine edition. For those who have almost everything a vibrating pillow a three minute timer metal wine rack car seats belts and specialty glasses are suggested.
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World Globe
Farm Ponds Offer Fire Water Even When Frozen
Rural firefighters often lose water access when ponds freeze. Anthony Timmons of Leslie Salt Co explains a wooden barrel brined with four pounds of salt per gallon of water placed under the ice allows rapid water retrieval. Fire crews should keep the top above ice and mark the barrel for quick use.
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Anthony Timmons
Leslie Salt Co
Timmons
Japanese-American Regiments Shaped Hawaii Role in WWII
Honolulu reports that despite being Hawaii’s largest racial group after Pearl Harbor, no sabotage was traced to Japanese Americans in WWII. The 442nd Infantry Regiment and 100th Combat Battalion, largely composed of Hawaii Nisei, earned high battle casualty rates and repeatedly distinguished themselves in Europe.
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Honolulu
Hawaii
Japan
Pearl Harbor
442Nd Infantry Regiment
100Th
Europe
Beef Bread Recipe From the T Bone CowBelles
The T Bone CowBelles share a beef bread recipe for Christmas sandwiches. Boil water with sugar and cooked beef, then cool and soak yeast in warm water. Mix potato water lard molasses bran and flours, let rise, add walnuts and more flour, knead and rise in stages, bake in batches at low heat.
Ode to an Odd Glove
A concise verse laments a lone glove missing its mate and wonders why two pieces cannot be lost together. The speaker expresses frustration at having only one remaining glove.
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S & S Motor & Hardware
Chef and
Ruth Sheen
Harry — Otto
Treasure State Telephone CO
Clive and
Elsa
Don and
Joyce John
Dorothy
Edwin
Elva
Wes
Ola
William and Alfred
Health & Homesters
T & L Chevrolet
Pontiac
Meo
Christtimas
Mal and
Edna
Goosey
Yule
Big Timber Sim
Julie Shirley Bruce
Louise Ellingson
Raver
Ullman Lumber CO
Con and
Forrest Ullman
Henry Sandsness
Sweet Grass County Commissioners
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