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Newspaper

Brookshire Times

Location

Brookshire, Texas, United States of America

Date

Dec 16, 1949

Page

12

Remarkable Texan? Not Quite the Way It Happened

Dispatches from multiple cities recount odd happenings and safety tips. Maurice Ricker’s sharpshooting display in Augusta Maine features animals shot with a bunting. Other items note a horse and elk incident in Washington and lifting tips from New York safety council.

Augusta Maine Maurice Ricker Washington New York Greater New York Safety Council Baltimore Shawnee Oklahoma Frankfort Kentucky

Leaf-Scroll Brackets and Gift Tobacco Ad Offer

The ad promotes leaf-scroll brackets for home decor cut from inch wood, plus a Christmas push for Camels cigarettes and Prince Albert tobacco. It claims ready wrapped gift packaging with built in greeting cards and local dealer availability to ease holiday shopping.

Prince Albert Adv

North Carolinas Extended Christmas Traditions Begin in Salem

In Salem and the Moravian community the Christmas candle making season spans months from October through early January. Women produce thousands of beeswax candles for Moravian churches across the south, joining a ritual observed by Rodanthe on the Outer Banks and by Ukrainian and Russian colonists near Wilmington who still follow the Gregorian calendar. The Brothers House houses the process with wax melted from huge cakes, poured into molds, and paired with candle teas as hospitable houses offer Moravian Sugar cakes and coffee.

North Carolina Salem South Rodanthe Wilmington Old Salem Brothers

Christmas Story Grows in Faith and Nativity Promise

The article traces the Christmas narrative from Isaiah prophecy to the nativity. It recalls the foretold birth of Jesus with titles like Wonderful Counselor and Prince of Peace and notes the visit of the Three Wise Men and Luke’s account of Mary and the manger.

Mra. J.a.hamma Main St Portland Ind Kellogg's Isaiah Immanuel Bethlehem Midian Ephah St. Luke

Classified ads for stores farms and services across Texas and California

Multiple classified listings include Help Yourself Inn equipment for sale with price and contact, Locker Plant and grocery business with lease details, Humble Station and Sanford's Grocery in Medina Texas, Westin Store and Saddle Shop in Northern California, Suburban Cleaning Plant for sale, Evangeline Cleaners Baton Rouge listing, 80 acres farm and ranch with riverfront, seeds and Strawberry Plants from Moore Plant Co and Jodsonia Arkansas. Includes various prices and contact mentions.

HELP Westinghouse Bond & CO Bany Denver & Cole Jack Graham Medina Texan Humble Station Sanford's Route 1 Pineland Texas Western California P.O Sacramento Evangeline Cleaners i Evangeline Sty Baton Rouge

Fireworks and Health Aids Listed in Local Ad Line

Allen Fireworks Company of Ringgold Georgia advertises a free list itemizing hecklers five cent box Chinese firecrackers two sc package and Winny Didg noting HED LYTE relief for headache hangover muscular aches and neuralgia pains sold at drugstores for over 40 years Ringgold based business promotes assorted consumer items and relief products in a single listing.

Allen Firework SS Company Winny Didg Ringgold

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