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Newspaper
Cameron Herald
Location
Cameron, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 09, 1937
Page
9
Ruth and her father brave a blizzard to attend a party but turn back when the storm worsens. Stranded, they struggle through drifting snow and finally reach home. The ordeal becomes Ruth’s New Year’s resolution to yield to parental caution and cooperate for safety.
About 9 million Americans buy Christmas trees each year. December 24 is linked to the pre Christian observance called Modrenecht or Mother Night in Anglo Saxon culture, long before Christmas.
Uncle Eben critiques the holiday mood calling it an expensive form of nothing but condensed trouble as families debate gift costs and social obligations during the Christmas season.
A Successful Farming poem by ALSON SECOR contrasts Christmas giving with stinginess and charity. It leads to a moral on sharing and ends with a joke about Adolf Stinkus seeking a name change to Meyer Stinkus in a New York court.
A superstition from western Devonshire, England, holds that at midnight on Christmas Eve the oxen in the stables kneel. local lore ties the event to divine signs and seasonal cheer.
Transactions show various court house deeds and notices. Individuals such as Philip Chaves Genebeva Urban Eddie Moore and Dorothy Welch appear in partnerships and settlements. Multiple parcels and acreages are listed with dollar totals and grant references across Dallas Rockdale Cameron and Thorn dale.
In Rochdale on November 29 1937 Mary M Thweatt discharge granted and W F Paden named permanent administrator with bond 3000. Appraisers Gee Newton Albert Hollingsworth Dan Gunn. Bond approved December 1987 FE Wallace Arthur Kruse EF A Camp A S Epperson as sureties. Will of N Breomnan admitted to probate KE Brennan appointed independent executor without bond. W L Braun Lon M Peeples Emmerson Thweatt appraisers. Will of Mrs Mary C Frazier admitted to probate George T Frazier appointed independent executor without bond. W B Thomas T Moore Dr Cora Wells appraisers. New autos registered B P Matocha Austin Studebaker Jom Sedan. Mrs J Z Young Cameron Plymouth Fore Dore Touring Sedan. Mrs Simmie Burns Cameron Dodge Fore Dore Sedan. Frank Monroe Cameron Ford Standard Coupe EK Vogelsang Cameron Chevrolet Truck. R S Crowder Rosebud R 3 Ford Pickup. R D D Butchee Cameron Ford Tudor. Bill Howell Rockdale Ford Tudor Coach. G J Helms Minerva Ford De Lux Tudor Coach. Henry McCormick Rockdale Chevrolet Pickup.
Poetic fragment notes the nearing birth of Christ as night falls and bells reply to each other in mist across hills. The verse emphasizes quiet, moonless darkness and sacred anticipation.
Smelt are a staple of the Italian Christmas Eve meal as families prepare a festive fish feast.
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