Five Ps Christin? A Christmas Reverie by Harold L. Cook
A elderly man in a velvet robe sits by a fire on Christmas Eve in a memory filled scene. He recalls a distant first Christmas spent in Canada West Ontario with a poor frontier family while surrounded by gifts and festive sounds. The grandfatherly figure named Bees reflects on what happiness meant seventy five years prior.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ank
Mr. Bees
New York
Canada West
Ontario
Bees
Christmas Sermon and Family Memories from 1928
The essay blends a religious meditation on sin grace and incarnation with a Christmas memory of a child named Ted Bees. It links God’s mercy in Jesus Christ to human empathy illustrated by a missionary anecdote about explaining the Incarnation through analogy. The piece ends recalling a simple holiday scene of a snowy home, peppermint candy and warm milk.
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God
Jesus Christ
Emmanuel
Mr. Schoonmaker
Associated Press
China
Schoonmaker
America
San Francisco
Christ the Savior
Emanuel
Mr. Bees
Mothes
Ted
Jack Frost
Frost
Tod
Western Newspaper Union
The Old Fashioned Christmas Revered Through Ages
The article notes how earlier generations in 1828 and 1728 longed for the quiet pre rush Christmases, lamenting modern uproar and preferring the good old holiday from 75 years prior as seen in the Worn Home Companion.
James P Henderson Texas pioneer and early official
James Pinkney Henderson born March 3 1808 in Lincoln County North Carolina pursued law in 1829 practiced in Mississippi before joining Texans in their fight for independence. He recruited volunteers raised a company paid for it and reached Texas November 1836 after which he became Attorney General and Secretary of State. He served as special envoy to England and France to secure recognition of Texas independence.
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James Pinkney Henderson
Lincoln County
North Carolina
Kentucky
Lincolnton
Henderson
Mississippi
Texas
San Jacinto
Burnett
United States
Sam Houston
New Republic
England
France
Lewis Cass
Memoir of Texas statesman Henderson and career highlights
The article recounts James Pinckney Henderson’s life from marriage to Frances Cox in Paris, his 1840 Texas return and law practice, 1844 ministerial appointment, 1845 annexation acts, 1846 governorship, his role as major general in the Mexican War, and later Senate service until his death in Washington D C on June 4 1858. It notes his diplomacy, battlefield distinction at Monterey, and Capitul ation efforts with Don Pedro de Ampudia.
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Frances E. Cox
Philadelphia
Paris
Texas
Henderson
San Augustine
United States
Isaac van Zandt
Senate
United States Congress
Zachary Taylor
Monterey
Jefferson Davis
Don Pedro de Ampudia
United Senae
Thomas J. Rusk
Cuba
Washington D. C
Annual Stockholders Meeting Notice of Bank Directors
Notice is given for the annual meeting of stockholders of the First National Bank to be held at the bank office on January 8, 1929 at 10:00 a.m. for the election of directors and other business. F. B. Cable, Cashier.
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First National Bank
F. B. Cable
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Harold L. Cook
P. T. Ramsey
First Methodist Church
Merry Christmas
P. O. Adams
Knit Goods Shop
Gresham
Temple
Monroe Building
R. H.johnson Jewelry Store
Pace-Marshall Drug Co
Cameron, Texas
Firestone
Voice of Firestone
Houston
San Antonio
Dallas
Horstmann Bros
Cameron
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