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Newspaper
Buffalo Center Tribune
Location
Buffalo Center, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1944
Page
1
A fire destroyed their Chicago area home leaving John Hoogewoning wife and eight children homeless. A December drive raised 3000 dollars and neighbors provided a new ten acre property with a house and 165 laying hens. They moved in Christmas day as a deed was gifted and the family began anew.
A poetic legend about a forest Christmas tree carried home by a woodman named Martin Luther. The scene unfolds with frost on the branches and moonlit snow as the boy watches the tree burnish the room with light. The father explains the meaning as the tree glows and relaxes in the firelight.
Rural folk songs align with church services during mid winter revels. The Yule log holly and ivy mingle with the manger celebration as heathen symbols join the sacred season.
Officials of the American Tuberculosis Institute recalled the origin of the Christmas seal as the 36th annual sale began. In 1903 Danish clerk Einar Holboell conceived a voluntary tax on Christmas cards to fund a hospital for tubercular children, gaining post office approval to sell stamps.
The poem describes a quiet Christmas scene as four hamlets send bells across the night. The speaker hears four voices dilating and shrinking on the wind, expressing peace and good will to all mankind, with a misty, reverent tone.
The article notes cribs carried through streets by singing children in central European countries and in homes in Southern Europe. It highlights Italy’s Madonna delle Grazie shrine and Capuchin grotto, with figures carved by Gaggini and Matagliano, and notes the famous Bambino in Casterta and a renowned crib collection at Munich’s Bayerisches Nationalmuseum.
A long held Christmas tradition describes a peacock served to knights and lords in merrie olde England. The bird was skinned while keeping its feathers, roasted, then placed back in its skin for display and dining.
Gift giving was deeply rooted among Northern European tribes before conversion to Christianity. It was so compulsory among pagan Germans that men reportedly left the country during the holiday season to avoid giving gifts.
The legend recounts the Magi Melchior Caspar and Balthasar delivering gifts to Jesus and spreading faith after returning home. Their relics were moved from India to Constantinople then Milan, later taken by Frederick Barbarossa to Cologne and placed in the Cathedral where they reside today.
A vivid portrait of English hospitality in the 1400s and 1500s under rulers before the Puritans. Great halls brim with guests and merriment as ostlers and mistresses mingle. Yule logs blaze, carolers sing, and the air fills with roast meat, ale, nutmeg cakes, and wassail traditions.
The Jule Nisse is a small attic-dwelling elf focused on cattle welfare. He keeps cattle quiet and content, tending them if stable hands neglect duties. His name links to peaceful homes, while rowdy houses invite mischief. Danish children recall his long memory and watchful eye at Christmas.
Legends say holly proves favored by the sun god with evergreen leaves and white berries turning crimson. Warding off witches and a one year rule by the person who first brings holly home are also noted. The poem laments the same old Christmas rituals and gifts, carols, lights, and stockings.
Greek villagers dive into the harbor to recover a wooden cross cast by an archbishop. The villager who retrieves the crucifix may levy a small Christmas tax on each home in the village.
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