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Newspaper
Brimfield News
Location
Brimfield, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 25, 1930
Page
8
Grace High announces staff assignments for the year with MeLvin McCoy directing Dramatics and faculty, Beanice DeVones as Exchange Editor, and Beanice Blundy overseeing Girls Athletics while Susan Sollenberger leads humor and Helen Craax contributes to Boys Athletics and the faculty pages.
In this reflective piece students compare school learning to riding a bicycle. Knowledge of mathematics English and other subjects is framed as preparation for applying skills. The text argues education is about mastering tools that enable future progress rather than rote subjects alone.
Brimfield defeated Corpus Christi 18 to 14 in a tight basketball contest. Rogere led Brimfield with high scoring while A Coon trailed closely. Corpus Christi built a late lead before Brimfield surged in the final period to secure the win.
Brimfield led early and held off Wyoming 24 to 14 as Rogers topped Brimfield with eight points and A Johnson added six. The Brimfield second team won 23 15 over Wyoming seconds as Lottman Rice and E Johnson led Brimfield scorers with three points each.
Brimfield plans to participate in a Christmas holidays tournament at Princevilz beginning December 31. Brimfield’s opening game is January 1 at 1:30 with Dunlap. Mary Ellen had been promised a playmate and announced that her sister is in the hospital and a boy.
A badly timed exchange reveals a breakdown in a mailing list service as the assistant explains a truck failure while a request to deliver a national bank vice presidents to Sandtrap Golf Magazine goes unresolved.
A debate arises over an author's self promotional posture as critics note his work is shaped by the publishing house's advertising push. The exchange hints at the influence of marketing on literary reception and authorial self image.
A brief linguistic moment captures a playful back and forth as a character hints at a forgotten thought and the other suggests a farewell remark. The exchange showcases light whimsy and concise wit characteristic of humorous dialogue.
A fragment portrays Matilda, a devout worker who fears the end of the world while delivering gifts. She reflects on angels, sages, and a mysterious sky message amid a humorous rural Christmas scene, ending with a neighbor urging Christmas spirit.
Sea dwelling girls use Irish moss to craft cards with a unique touch. Nature Magazine notes dried seaweed, pressed under water, forms a sticky surface that holds the design without heat. The method highlights delicate sea weeds as a clever seasonal resource.
The piece extols Christmas spirit as eternal foe of cruelty, noting its joy shared with animals and all living beings. It asserts no one influenced by Christ can view the least creature with cruelty, linking compassion to the nativity story and humanity's burden of suffering.
The text explains Dr. Brooks wrote O Little Town of Bethlehem while in Philadelphia. The organist from his church composed the tune. Inspiration came to the organist the night before the Christmas program use.
The biggest private Christmas tree in Britain stood 70 feet tall on the Duke of Norfolk's estate. It weighed about four tons and carried gifts valued at £4500. The snippet also reflects on investments and the certainty of profits or losses.
All attempts to raise mistletoe from the earth by slips or seed have failed. The curious word mistle toe comes from the Saxon mist falie and toen meaning twig.
A fragmentary verse lines note bags rosemary and laurel as symbols of grandeur. The speaker declares everyone now is a king in conceit and signs with a mid 17th century sounding Carol dated 1695.
A 1930 Western Newspaper Union quotation celebrates Christmas as a universal tonic to gloom and greed. It extols Christmas rites, simple joys, and the renewal of hope and peace across all classes, praising its power to soften hate and inspire noble deeds.
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