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Newspaper
Cameron Herald
Location
Cameron, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1948
Page
4
A detailed guide to hosting a festive pre and post Christmas party for young people. It covers invitations, home or hall decorations, caroling, a coordinated tree trimming activity, an ornament making contest, a gift and refreshment exchange, and a group wishing ritual with a bayberry candle.
The Yule log origins trace to ancient Houl festival marking the sun’s return. Experts note oak remains favored in England and Northern lands, with ash olive pine yew beech and holly used. Medieval rites featured wines oils carols bread shapes and gifts. customs varied across France Italy Flanders and beyond.
In Raceland Louisiana Mr and Mrs Temon Danos maintain a private deer herd larger than Santa's with nineteen named deer led by Reiny and Tommy grazing along US 90. Locals stop for a closer look as visitors imagine Santa sightings near Lafourche parish.
Holly arrives from East and West Coast markets with American holly bearing dull spiny leaves and red berries. English holly from the West features larger glossy leaves and bright clusters of berries. A custom says the first to bring holly into the home will rule the house next year.
Listings include a grocery and market with four living rooms on a corner lot yielding 875000 gross per year, an upscale cafe in Taloga Oklahoma, a block plant with real estate and offices, a hardware and gift store in Tulane Oklahoma, and a general mercantile business between two towns near Little Rock with a 90000 annual volume and living quarters rear.
A compilation of sale notes advertising metal electric brooders and cages from Chewalla Brooder Mfg. Co in Holly Springs Mississippi, a novelty electric bow tie gift from R B Sales Co in St Louis Missouri, and King Size photos from Photo-Larb Cambridge Massachusetts.
Machinery items listed by H L Phillips of Glenmoore Pa include a 10 to 13 thousand diesel engine a D-4 angledozer an 18 yard carryall a 6 watt Kohler electric plant and a 15 kilowatt super diesel generator The entry notes Fagle 22 R 8 as a reference.
Apartment houses with private entrances at 2088 Kaufman Street Mexia and a CTE business property 200 by 85 feet suitable for factory wholesale or retail. Includes options to sell or lease. Also offering a rock ranch and a Blacksmith Shop location in Mesquite Texas.
Rural property notices list multiple farms and ranches for sale or trade in Arkansas Missouri Georgia Texas New Mexico and Wisconsin. Listings include 1458 acre Ozark area farms 80 acre irrigated plots near state highways and river basins with housing stock and fencing and nearby hunting and fishing areas. Money asks range from nine thousand dollars to four dollars per acre with contact details for buyers.
Registered polled Shorthorns service age bulls bull calves and a few females from Reef type Shadybrook lines. Contact W.G. Gresham Route 2 Box 6692 Austin Texas. Also registered Jerseys selling herd in excellent condition Furene Pinade Wheeler Texas.
Classified dog and animal notices from multiple regions include 1 year old setters offered by T. G. Martin in Grape Vine Texas at 25 dollars, red longhaired dachshund pups six months old championed by J. Miller in Leavenworth Kansas, registered Shorthorn bulls ages 3 months to 2 years listed by G. H. Harmon in De Leon Texas, and bird dogs retrievers buyers asked to contact Clarence Rledene in Hillsboro Texas for wide and close hunters.
Ten nursery dahlias named prize winners available postpaid. We wholesale. Order today from Payne Dahlia Farm Route 5 Kansas City 3 Kansas.
Harmann Service in the 587 Manhattan Building Milwaukee Wisconsin requests poems for FREF examination. Send submissions to the noted address for review and potential inclusion in a musical project.
Rabbit Federation advertises commercial and part time rabbit raising with training, bulletin, prices, hatch plans. Located at 200 Burrell Building, San Jose, California.
A nostalgic look at how Christmas trees evolved from scraggly pines to balsam firs. The balsam fir, once deemed useless for timber or fuel, became prized as a festive decoration after a visionary seller popularized its use in Boston, changing town displays nationwide.
Demand for balsam firs grew so fast that laws protected the trees. Many are imported from the Canadian North Woods as holiday displays spread nationwide with outdoor silver and blue trees and lavender accents. Yet the green balsam fir remains beloved for its pine scent and tradition of cutting a tree in the country.
A Christmas poem written by Dr. Clement C. Moore during a festive mood was later hidden from view by the author. Harriet Butler helped publish it anonymously in the Troy Sentinel, and the verses grew in popularity over decades. Moore finally acknowledged it in 1844 and today the poem endures as his sole claim to immortality.
Washington endured the cold in a tent to share hardship with his troops at Valley Forge. He urged morale despite doubts and declared, There will be other Christmases. The 24 December 1777 moment symbolized a decisive, unseen victory amid the struggle for independence.
A poetic meditation on smiles as a distinct human prerogative. The author contrasts man’s expression with gems flowers, arguing that a smile signals love, cheerfulness, and joy. A facial smile is likened to a twilight between day and night, more beguiling than either.
An examination of four hundred notable men shows that the decade from sixty to seventy yields 35 percent of the era’s greatest achievements, followed by 23 percent between seventy and eighty and 8 percent after eighty, totaling 64 percent achieved after age sixty.
A reflective piece extols friendship as a warming force that endures beyond life. It urges cultivating loyalty clear vision and steadfast heartedness to foster universal friendship across languages and peoples, rebuilding trust among humanity.
Forest Service cautions a safer Christmas by keeping trees well watered. Use fresh trees, recut the trunk an inch above the old cut to improve water uptake, and keep the container filled. Watering is not fire proof but reduces fire risk. remain vigilant.
Tom Campbell of Hardin Montana famed as America’s wheat king travels to French North Africa to show modern wheat growing techniques at his ranch. Three delegations from Morocco Tunisia and Algeria have studied his methods all summer. Campbell notes his Montana land yields up to 50 bushels per acre and parallels North Africa conditions.
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