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Newspaper
Buffalo Center Tribune
Location
Buffalo Center, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 25, 1946
Page
4
Officials estimate at least 100,000 fees saved yearly in America through the annual Christmas Seal campaign against tuberculosis. In 1903 Danish postal clerk Einar Holboell proposed a voluntary tax on Christmas greeting cards to benefit underprivileged tubercular children. The ministry allowed seal sales at post offices and the campaign began.
The Red Cross allied with the National Tuberculosis Association from 1907 to 1919, selling seals with the Red Cross emblem. In 1919 the double-barred cross emblem appeared on the seal, symbolizing the fight against tuberculosis. By 1920 the TB seal sales were moved to the Tuberculosis Association, freeing the Red Cross to focus on Roll Call campaigns.
A reflective Paris region piece recalls a Christmas crib scene in Provence where children recite prayers naming virtues they seek through symbolic figures such as the fisherman drummer troubadour and hunter, blending nostalgia with gentle ethical aspirations.
Divinations during Christmas in Czarist Russia involved five grain piles named Hope Ring Money Thread Charcoal. A drowsy hen walked the floor selecting a pile to foretell a fortune for a marriageable daughter or family.
Niles notes link December Yule to Christmas tracing Anglo-Saxon geol origins. The column blends etymology with seasonal customs, highlighting traditional timing and language roots behind the holiday season.
Bonchevalier travels through a forest on Christmas Eve and sees a radiant evergreen covered with candies. A star over the top evokes a child with a pale amber halo. The tale explains the tree as humanity with upright candles the good, inverted for the bad, and a child at the top watching over all.
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