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Newspaper
Buffalo Center Tribune
Location
Buffalo Center, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 25, 1946
Page
7
The piece repeats a nostalgic Christmas greeting, praising the season’s familiar warmth. It thanks family, friends, and local workers from bakers to shopkeepers, celebrating how generosity and effort shape the holiday joy and shared prosperity.
A reflective Christmas message celebrates selflessness and kindness as core to the season. The piece urges focus on Christlike qualities of loyalty and devotion, ending with wishes for readers and subscribers to have a Merry Christmas.
The article explains wassail as a midieval Christmas custom to wish guests well. It describes serving from a wooden bowl, cider as the base, apples hung above a hearth, and roasting pebbles roasting to heat the drink. A recipe for wassail is given with cider, grated nutmeg, egg whites, milk, and spices per taste.
Urns found along the Jerusalem Bethlehem road are thought to be the oldest Christian record dating to 70 A D. The ossuaries bear Jesus name and may have been carved by an eyewitness to the crucifixion. Read among 11 early burial urns, the marks are linked to a Hebrew sect that followed Jesus and denounced Pontius Pilate.
At the Foundling hospital in Lyons France the first infant of Christmas Day arrives amid a grand welcome, contrasted with the humble conditions of Jesus. The ritual highlights the mercy shown to a child in need versus the poverty of the infant Christ.
The article states church bells began in the fifth century with Bishop Palinius of Nola in Campania. It notes the Latin term campanula may derive from Nola and Campania, a derivation some authorities doubt.
A Christmas Eve legend shows the Infant Jesus choosing a playmate for heaven. In old England sick babies were carried to the threshold at midnight. If the child recovered, Christ had healed him. if the baby died, the Holy Child had chosen him for heaven.
Strange holiday tradition in the British Isles features the Hodening Horse, a grotesque wooden hobby horse carried by two boys. It roams houses reciting verses and sometimes demanding hospitality or fines, with its head lit to simulate flames and teeth clanking, while in Wales hosts reward wit with cakes and cider.
Santa Claus has entrenched himself in Brazilian children despite the abandoned chimney. June in January makes Christmas a midsummer festival. Midnight mass on Christmas Eve is celebrated with varying pomp, preceded by dancing festas and late suppers as families join grown-up festivities.
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