Holiday Goods At Bryan Store Advertises Wide Gift Line
A Bryan store displays a large sale of holiday items beside its druggists' sundries. The list includes fireworks dolls china tea sets bisque figures vases dressing cases albums and many more gift items at money saving prices. The ad notes 15c manicure pieces and urges shoppers to call soon for Christmas.
Christmas pipe scam ends in ruined pipe and tongue
A bachelor attends a Christmas dinner hosted by a couple who praise a fine amber mouthpiece. The pipe is revealed to be celluloid and burns up, leaving a hole in the tongue. The husband quips that women are not good judges of cigars and pipes as the Sun notes.
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New York Sun
Seville
Spain
Italy
Roast Turkey For The Table From A 10 Pound Bird
Select a young ten pound turkey singe draw and wash it, season inside and out with salt. Prepare a forcemeat with soaked bread sausage meat onions thyme and pepper, fill the crop and body, sew and truss. Roast with butter, baste until browned, cook giblets, prepare gravy with cornstarch, strain and enrich with liver, serve.
Yuletide Customs Across Nations
English early Anglo-Saxon revelry waned with Puritan influence and saints days were banned. restoration revived festive observances. Italy honors Mary with night-long church services and guitars. Germany follows Kris Kringle in a gift tradition. Australia celebrates Christmas in midsummer with plum pudding, holly, and a local Christmas bush bloom in December.
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England
Australia
Acreage for sale near Allen Academy with cottage
South half of block near Allen Academy priced at 550 dollars. About one and a quarter acres near the town schoolhouse in the southeast part. Includes a small new cottage and a tenant on the premises. Price reliable but not fully stated.
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Allen Academy
Brain food nonsense and diet claims debunked
Critics dismiss the idea of specialized foods for brain or muscles arguing a correct diet supports all body parts. The ad promotes Green's August Flower as a tonic to aid digestion, boost liver function, purify blood, and improve vigor, available at Wilson-Jenkins Co. and with Dr G G Green's remedies and almanac.
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G. G. Green
Wilson-Jenkins , Co
Green
His First Christmas Tree in Pig Latin Town
A child narrator recounts a whimsical Christmas scene in Baltimore. The speaker claims others are luckier, as little folks possess the first Christmas tree and candy chickens, candles, and a two tailed elephant. The tale ends with the child declaring no dinner or breakfast, awaiting a rest.
Pleasant Mistake A Walkin Beneath Mistletoe
A playful line notes that a walk beneath the mistletoe may be a mistake for a man or a woman yet could turn into a pleasant moment. The cheeky remark hints at holiday flirtation and charm.
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