Ancient hospitality tale echoes Christmas in modern giving
Greg Jordan notes a season of generosity amid layoffs and an economic downturn. Community Christmas Tree goals were met, and donors from Salvation Army to Shop With A Cop aided families in need across Mercer, McDowell and Tazewell counties. Stories of Walter Reed donations and Homeric hospitality highlight ongoing duty to help strangers and vulnerable animals through shelters and toy drives.
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Santa Claus
Princeton Police Department
Mercer Sheriff's Iment
West Virgin Ie
Salvation Army
Phyllis Cates
Gary High School
Walter Reed
Emory Maxwell
Athens
Walter Reed Medical Center
Dee
Concord University
Homer
Ulysses
Troy
Mercer County
Sharon Sagety
McDowell County Animal Shelter
Stephanie Barker
Mercer Shelter
Princeton
Tor
Greg Jordan
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Wise Men Visit Child in Bethlehem Richly Gifted
The fragment recalls the biblical scene from Matthew 2 11 with the Magi entering the house and bowing to the infant Jesus presenting gifts of gold frankincense and myrrh. The text reflects a religious reading from the Bluefield Baily Telegraph featuring editor notes and archival fragments.
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Mary
Is There a Santa Claus Yes Virginia Prompts Enduring Belief
The famous 1897 New York Sun editorial replies to Virginia with the line Yes Virginia there is a Santa Claus. It argues belief in Santa as real as love and generosity, noting that unseen truths endure beyond proof and that faith, imagination, and poetry reveal the world’s lasting magic.
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Virginia
Santa Claus
New York Sun
Friends of the Sun
West Ninety-Fifth Street
Bluefield readers laud police and alarm responders
Larry and Patsy Douglas of Bluefield West Virginia praise police and Hylton Electric after a Thanksgiving night burglary at a Cherry Street laundromat. The alarm company contacted authorities who arrived within three minutes, found a large hole in the wall, recovered the sledgehammer, and traced the culprit’s escape route.
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Cises
Cherry Street
Hylton Electric
Bluefield City
Larry
Patsy Douglas
Bluefield
W.va
Lessons of the Bulge inform modern war and leadership
Arthur Cyr reviews the 1944 Battle of the Bulge, contrasting its scale and logistics with current conflicts. He notes Patton and Hogan units, Cors Warner’s Medal of Honor deed, and stresses realism, planning, and discipline as enduring lessons for contemporary military efforts.
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Obama
Iraq
Afghanistan
Nazi Germany
Ardennes Forest
Belgium
Germany
Gettysburg
Henry F. Warner
Dom Butgenbach
Warner
Iman
United States
Bush White House
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Andy Patton
Ran Woodson
Thomas Erect
A. Colleytive
Il Archer
Reger
Bluefield Police
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Normandy
Iwo Jima
Leyte Gulf
Philippines
Bulge
Battle of the Bulge
Eisenhower
Patton
Ardennes
Third Army
Arthur Cyr
Clausen
Carthage College
Acyr
Carthage
Arthur I. Cyr
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