Bryan A and M Club organized by local alumni
At a December meeting in College Station the Bryan College A and M club was formed with Dr Joe Gilbert as president and an executive committee to draft by laws. The move expands a state wide effort to form alumni clubs open to ex-students, not just graduates, with holiday organizers to visit major Texas cities. Also notes on dairy economics and a local ads insert from Navasota Examiner and Wilson and Edge.
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Joe Gilbert
W. A. Watkins
W. J. Coulter
A. Mitchell
R. J. Potts
Alumni Association
Association
Bryan College
Tawney recalls childhood Christmas church memory
Representative James A. Tawney of Minnesota describes a nine year old Christmas trek to a Catholic church two miles from Bonneauville Adams County Pennsylvania. He recalls a lantern lit church with wax candles a surpliced choir and grand organ set against a cold winter morning and the pain of stiff boots born from a prior tallow hardening.
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James A. Tawney
Minnesota
Bonneauville
Adams County
Pittsburg Press
Iinesota
The Art of Giving and the Gift Dilemma
A Philadelphia Press piece on how Christmas gifts can cause distress and false gratitude when they miss the mark. It argues gifting well is a skill and shows how mismatched presents create awkwardness, strained honesty, and lingering family feuds through inevitable misunderstandings.
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Philadelphia Press
The Mistletoe Myth From Teutonic Lore
The account explains mistletoe’s sacred role for Baldur in Teutonic myth. Freya’s oath to spare the sun god’s life fails when Hoeder uses mistletoe to pierce Baldur’s heart, killing him as the tale recalls the gods’ vulnerability and the plant’s fate.
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Baldur
Freya
Venus
Hoeder
Boston
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A.w.buchanan & Company
KING
Bryan
Texas
Wagner & Brandon
J. Allen Myers
E. J. Fountain
Post Office
Levy Bros
MO. M. Caldwell
Jewelry Store
MNO
A. Moore
A. L. Mondrick
D. W. C. Fountain
Crown and Bridge
Burt Norwood
James’ Drug
W. H. Lawrence
Haswell’'S
Navasota
Wilson & Edge
Tawney
Lollier & Caldwell
Ivers and Pond
Baldwin
Ivers and & Pond
Higgs & Haygoods
Southwestern Life Insurance Co
Dallas
Joe B. Reed
Joe B. Arreed
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