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Newspaper
Brady Standard
Location
Brady, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1965
Page
7
A collection of children’s Christmas wish lists. John Tittle asks for a HB-B gun and ring with T, a basketball, and a swing set. Various siblings request dolls, a tool set, a tractor toy, a wooden train, a tr ansistor radio, a record player, and other gifts.
The piece notes December 25 as Christ's birthday, traced to 354 A D transfer from January 6 by Latins. It describes how Latin, Germanic, and Celtic regions celebrated the sun return, with Yule logs wassail bowls and mistletoe adopted from pagan and Celtic traditions.
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