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Newspaper
Brookshire Times
Location
Brookshire, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1946
Page
9
A collection of pointed maxims on arguing at meals, progress through trading worries, widening waistlines, and money’s blunt message. Quick observations on human behavior and consumer culture blend humor with cautionary notes about modern life.
Tom applied for work at the railway yards and was asked to drive an engine into a shed. The engine sprang to life and moved unpredictably as he attempted to stop it. The foreman berated him while Tom retorted that the doors should have been shut.
The article traces how early Christians did not mark Jesus birth on December 25 until the fourth century when Pope Gregory V established the date to absorb pagan solstice celebrations. It explores nativity plays across Europe, the Santa Claus evolution from various traditions, and regional customs such as the Nisse in Norway and the Christ Child in Switzerland, with Orthodox Christmas on January 7 for some.
The piece explains a medieval practice at Westminster Hall where straw was placed in witnesses shoes to signal readiness to testify. It notes the custom dates to ancient Greece and that lawyers would hire a straw man to recall a person from a case, with memory improving as the fee rose, after which the witness took an oath in court.
OU can transform a gloomy north window into a bower of gay and colorful flowers 12 months a year. Our AD-pare booklet, SUCCESS WITH HOUSE PLANTS AND FLOWERS, gives the indoor gardener many pointers for terrariums, dish gardens and house plants. Send twenty-five cents in coins for our booklet to:
A 1789 Senate Committee debated calling the President “His Excellency” or “His Highness the President of the United States,” but chose the simple title President of the United States. Thomas Jefferson favored a democratic approach, fitting his stance among early statesmen.
The Victory vase presented by the Russian people to Generalissimo Stalin is the largest object of its kind. It features $40,000 in gold, a portrait of Stalin, and war scenes painted by five artists over two years. The base is pink porcelain and the piece stands nine feet tall.
The mussel digger boats have no masts and use underwater sails to drift downstream. A long rod with many hooks hangs from the boat, and a canvas sheet over the bow sinks to capture current and move the boat for mud mussel digging.
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