Christmas Comes But Once a Year Across Many Traditions
The article notes varied Christmas observances worldwide and in the United States, from Saint Nicholas on December 5 in Holland to January 7 in the Aleutians and Rodanthe North Carolina, and January 14 for New Year in the Aleutians, reflecting different calendars and customs. It highlights remote Skerries and Alaska communities keeping distinct dates and practices.
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Saint Nicholas
Holland
Hungary
Santa Claus
Shetland
Scotland
Gregory
United States
Rodanthe’ Island
North Carolina
Alaska
Scotsmen remark on modern damsel at station
Two Scotsmen awaiting a train notice a stylish young woman on the platform. One comments on her bold attire, and the other quips that the land is in need of less dressing, a lighthearted exchange reflecting local speech.
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Tammas
Naethin
Ava
Japanese villagers kneel at mound they call Christ burial place
In a northern Japanese village near Aomori locals kneel before a mound they claim is Jesus Christ’s burial site. The belief blends local faiths with a foreign six point star symbol while recounting a Romorian tale of Soraitaro and Ishiri.
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Christ
Okyo
Japan
Herai
Aomori
Honshu Island
Yadaijin
Suinin
Soraitaro
Ishiri
Europe
Siberia
Keiko Tenno
Tsukino-Tatte
House of the Moon
Jesus
Rich Rug Crochet Pattern for Exclusive Design
Crochet a thick piled rug in square blocks with pattern 2051 including directions charts and stitch illustrations. Send 15 cents to The Sewing Circle Needlecraft Dept New York for this design and required materials list.
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Sewing Circle Needlecraft Dept
Eighth Ave
New York
N. Y
Christmas Day Facts Pile Up Through The Ages
Postmaster General Farley receives 1000 Christmas cards daily during the season. Vasco da Gama, born on Christmas Day 1469, reached Natali Africa on Christmas Day 1497 and died Christmas Eve 1524. Oscar Phillips of Santa Claus Indiana handles half a million mail pieces each Christmas. Roosevelt gets a toothbrush and soap in a stocking as a family custom. Edward Keenan, Santa in Milwaukee since 1927, keeps a year round herd of reindeer for the role.
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James A. Farley
Vasco da Gama
Natali
Africa
Oscar Phillips
Santa Claus
Ind
Roosevelt
Edward Keenan
Milwaukee
Next Year’s Yule Cards Being Designed
Artists have completed designs for the 1940 41 season and printers will start after Christmas. A large English firm employs 500 people to produce cards often with calendars added and sold for the holidays.
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England
Meat Packer Gives 50 000 Pounds Of Meat To Needy At Christmas
Louis K Sigman once hungry in Brooklyn now donates 50 000 pounds of meat each Christmas for Denver families in 5 000 parcels of 10 pounds. Over ten years he has given more than 250 tons. He started the plan after seeing locals beg for discarded scraps at his packing plant.
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Denver
Colo
Louis K. Sigman
Brooklyn
N. Y
Sigman
Phillips Milk of Magnesia Tablets Quick Relief
Portable peppermint tablets offer fast relief from acid indigestion gas and nausea. Each tablet delivers the alakalizing action of a teaspoonful of Phillips Milk of Magnesia, promoted as a discreet in-pocket remedy to avoid embarrassment.
Virtues Lost Virtues Quote Reflected In Self Interest
The line contrasts virtue's erosion by self interest with streams losing themselves in the vast sea, invoking La Rochefoucauld to illustrate moral fading amid personal gain.
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la Rochefoucauld
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