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Newspaper
Blue Island Sun
Location
Blue Island, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1913
Page
9
A printer finds a cryptic note at the church end of week: an organist had prepared a Sunday service order but a death prompts a change. The postlude was to be Funeral March by Chopin while the page ends with a sly line reading A few remarks by Chopin.
A trial of an electric voting machine will take place in the Austrian chamber of deputies. Each member uses two desk buttons, while a wall indicator of 516 glass tablets shows a white or red light for votes and can display names if needed to verify individual selections.
A brief, sentimental notice drawing on a newspaper line about a mother’s strength and endurance as a substitute for a locksmith, reflecting a human-interest aside in a late 19th or early 20th century Atchison Globe style column.
A young woman abroad writes home and ends with P.S. You will see by my signature that I am married. Her note showcases how a postscript delivers a sudden personal update beyond the main text.
In Honduras Nicaragua and Costa Rica public sentiment holds Bible work is a prelude to political control. Communities sometimes organize squads to drive Bible agents from the country.
A Leeds jeweler crafted a silver model beam engine of 165 pieces. Completed in every detail the miniature stands half an inch high and weighs only one and a half pennyweight.
The Knecht Rupert figure grew from St. Nicholas legends in Germany. A family member dressed as a gift giver placed presents on a yew bough. On Christmas morning children gathered to guess donors and receive gifts or a switch for misbehavior.
On the day after Christmas St Stephen’s day Manx youths celebrate by stone wrens claiming a mythic siren turned into a wren yearly on the 26th and slain. Another tale says a wren woke St Stephen’s guard at a prison escape.
The expert cutter learns to judge trees by branch rings for shape and symmetry. He checks that squirrels have not eaten buds from the top tips and that cattle and deer have not sharpened their horns on the way through.
In Holland Santa Claus visits twenty days before he arrives in the United States. December 5 marks St. Nicholas’s feast, a Dutch tradition linking children’s care to Nicholas. In England the saint’s worship waned then returned as Father Christmas. Holland keeps Santa on December 5. Dutch children place hay or straw in shoes for the donkey that St. Nicholas rides by the fireplace.
An Irish legend says the Christ Child wanders Christ mas Eve guided by candlelit windows to avoid stumbling on the way home. In Hungary families open doors and spread feasts so he may enter at will. Across Christendom belief holds no evil can touch the child on Christmas Eve.
The piece recalls a harsh old practice on December 28 when children were scolded or whipped to remind them of sins not committed by the innocents Herod had slain. It notes that such fashion has thankfully vanished and all vestiges are blotted out.
Dialogue sketches a domestic scene with Mrs Crabshaw and Bobbie as they note a mistletoe moment and a wartime spirit. Bobbie answers with a line about blowing a bugle as an enlistment or call to arms echoes in the family setting.
Mrs. Glenfaddle, persuaded by her husband, gifts Emma a fine wardrobe and accessories for Christmas. Emma reacts by resigning, saying she can earn 25 cents more weekly elsewhere, ending the peace contemplated by the couple.
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