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Newspaper
Buffalo Center Tribune
Location
Buffalo Center, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1940
Page
10
A holiday guide offers quick party desserts using leftovers. Recipes include Peach Refrigerator Cake, Refrigerator Fruit Cake, Gingerbread Warfiles, Refrigerator Fruit Pudding, Plum Pudding, Left-Over Cake Dessert, Graham Cracker Dessert, and detailed steps with ingredients and chilling or baking instructions for each.
The article promotes Miss Howe's cookbook Better Baking Simplified Recipes guide novices to bake pies cakes and breads with clear directions. Readers can obtain the book by sending 10 cents to Better Baking care of Eleanor Howe 919 North Michigan Avenue Chicago Illinois via Western Newspaper Union.
The piece traces Christmas candles from early Christian times to their use in Nativity celebrations. It notes the Yule candle as a large early light, links candle lighting to Norse mid winter rites, and mentions Chanukah as similarly observed during the season.
The article notes that gift giving during Christmas has roots before modern times, with Romans incorporating it into festival programs. It mentions Christmas boxes and cards linking to ancient Roman festivities, and describes gift customs in France on New Year’s Eve and in other countries similar to the U S practice, with Santa visiting at Christmas.
Ancient Teutons viewed holly as good luck and hung evergreens indoors. Legends spread that all plants blossomed on the Nativity night. Holly symbolized Christ’s crown of thorns, while Puritans banned holly and mistletoe as pagan decorations.
On Christmas Eve children in Holland France England and the United States adapted gift customs. St Nicholas or Bonhomme Noel and Santa Claus inspired wooden shoes and stockings hung by hearths or chimneys to receive gifts, with stockings seen as holding more presents.
The Puritans foresaw the vanishing of Christmas carols and attempted to suppress the custom. Yet Christmas hymns endure as part of the tradition that began in early Christian Rome. The French Noel and the German Weihnachtslieder share the same origin.
A giant Sequoia, over 207 feet tall, marks the National Christmas Tree scene in General Grant National Park, 64 miles east of Fresno, California. Devotional and patriotic services held under the tree since 1925 are broadcast nationwide each year.
The lesson centers on eternal life as a gift and the failure of humans to keep the law. It presents Luke 10 and the Good Samaritan parable to define neighborliness, showing Christ as the true Good Neighbor who saves and empowers believers. The piece emphasizes love of God and neighbor as central, with interpretive notes and devotional applications by A. C. Goebelein and A. J. Gordon.
Rance describes a pinafore jumper No. 1252 B with high fitting bodice and two patch pockets in corduroy flannel jersey or wool crepe. Paired with a plain tailored blouse in various fabrics, sizes 11 to 19 with busts 29 to 37, yardage given for jumper and blouses, orders invited.
An auction room paused as a whispered exchange occurred between the auctioneer and a bidder. The master of ceremonies announced a wallet valued at five hundred dollars lost since the start, offering a fifty dollar reward for its return. A bidder then announced: I bid sixty.
Floridian scientists bottled sunshine in a luminescent powder and froze it in liquid air. The container was transported to New York where thawing the glass released the glowing heat. Witnesses saw the powder glow brilliantly and emit heat sufficient to fry fish.
A concise Platonic reflection asserts wisdom as the pure coin by which all things are valued. Fortitude temperance and justice stand with wisdom, making true virtue subsist as reality bought and sold through discernment and restraint.
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