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Newspaper
Cameron Herald
Location
Cameron, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1938
Page
3
Across America volunteers refurbish discarded toys in high school shops and fire stations. Police, firefighters, Boy and Girl Scouts help restore dolls and rocking horses while women sew new dresses and men repair playthings. Christmas baskets add food and clothing along with toys.
The Ada Henderson honor roll for the second six weeks lists students by class codes. Names include Gary Knochs, John David Mosley, William Robinson, Patsy Ann Clifton, and Clara Nell McCulloch among others across 1 1X 2X 2Y 8Y 4Y 5C 6B 6C and 70 categories.
In 1914 near Armentieres and Arras, British Gordon Highlanders sang Silent Night in multiple languages. The truce scene saw both sides pause, with unarmed soldiers meeting in no-man’s-land. Flares lit the sky as voices from trenches echoed Stille Nacht across the battlefield.
Tokyo reports a home ministry ordinance banning Santa Claus from Christmas displays. Stores plan to replace festive decorations with flags of Japan, Germany, and Italy to honor three leading anti communist nations.
Christmas Florida hosts a unique town with two Christmas atmospheres all year. Residents receive cards and stamps during Yuletide season mailed by the local postmistress Juanita S. Tucker known as Mrs Santa Claus. The post office dates from June 27 1892. Other offices in Christmas Kentucky and Christmas Arizona have been abandoned.
A reminiscence recalls Parma Radio Service starting with a spool and wire, tubes costing about seven and a half, a switch blowing tubes, and references to the pre New Philco era and early Philco testing equipment.
Miss Pearl Fulcrod county health nurse reports 111 visits in nine categories. Includes 75 child inspections weighing and measuring, 25 children had dental work, 14 school visits, 1 diphtheria case, 3 visits, 6 tubercular patient visits, 8 cripple child visits, 14 prenatal visits, 9 postnatal visits, 22 infant and preschool visits, 15 morbidity visits, 15 general visits. Attended the State Public Health Meeting in San Antonio with 940 registrants and a meeting in Austin with the Nurses League of Nursing Education.
Rev. Henry Bailey preached at Cameron Presby terian Church in the pastor’s absence. Rev. Acrey spoke in Eureka on the old ministers’ annuity fund. Dr. C. T. Caldwell of First Presbyterian Waco lectured at night on the Holy Land with illustrative pictures.
The passage argues the name Utah was applied by Navajos and Apaches to the Ute people, not chosen by them. It derives from a word meaning "upper" or "hill dwellers," likened to the English term "highlanders" for people living in the mountains.
Collier's Weekly reports that a clever Turkish spy in Constantinople was killed after British intelligence used a simple trick. They sent him $150 in cash in a plain envelope, which the Turkish censor deemed sufficient proof of enemy dealings, leading to his execution.
The 1689 act under William and Mary granted Protestant dissenters legal rights to public worship in their chapels while requiring oaths of supremacy and allegiance and repudiation of the doctrine of substantiation.
The text defines a mule as offspring of a mare and a male jack. It notes that the male donkeys used are large Spanish or French breeds. Males cannot breed and are valued for work due to their strength, resilience to disease, and lower feeding costs.
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