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Newspaper
Canon City Record
Location
Canon City, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1907
Page
2
An old style grocery advertisement extols cheerful living and honest weights. It promotes McKinley’s store promising prompt delivery and strict guarantees, urging customers to compare prices and buy bulk staples like vinegar, potatoes, tapioca, and rice to save money.
Christmas story recounts a Shriners dinner in Washington where 150 loaves of bread were donated by the Carroll Institute and handed to families by Santa Claus figures. The bread, given in error as an order, was cheerfully distributed and accepted as a Christmas blessing.
A New York Post piece explores the traditional account of the Magi Caspar Melchior and Balthasar, detailing their origins from Arabia Saba Tarshish and following the star to Jerusalem. It notes legends of their afterlife, baptism by St Thomas, martyrdom, and relics later housed in Constantinople Milan and Cologne.
The December 1898 Canada Christmas stamp was the first three color postage stamp issued by any country. It featured a world map of British possessions, blue oceans, a black frame, and inscriptions including Canada Postage and Xmas 1898. It was printed by a U S bank note company and cost four times the ordinary stamp.
Advertising excerpt lists regular prices for the Weekly Record and several magazines including Pearson's Magazine Dressmaking at Home Mothers' Magazine Spare Moments Womans' Home Companion and Success Magazine. It states cash must accompany order and pay for the Record a year in advance.
The British Dead Letter Office reports strange Christmas parcels during a ten day rush with about 190000 items daily. Highlights include live leeches, an artificial leg, a dormant alligator, 300 dead mice, a deceased puppy for postmortem study, and live animals such as pigeons and snakes sent as gifts despite prohibitions. One box contained 150 live frogs and recently 12 adders were found in a poultry hamlet. A sarcastic two foot cane bears a message for Johnny to be rubbed in.
A localized tale recalls St Stephen on Dec 20 and a legend of a rooster crowing to ward off evil spirits. King Herod’s steward, serving as cook, glimpses a Bethlehem star and declares a greater king is born, challenging his sovereign.
Stephen declares the Child to be greater and serves him. Herod, furious, orders Stephen killed outside Jerusalem. Soldiers stone Stephen to death, establishing him as patron saint of stonecutters according to a tale quoted by Abbie Farwell Brown.
A Century story recounts a Christmas Eve charity meal for New York newsboys at their lodging house. Amid cheering visitors the boys plead for pie while a dining hall mix up ends with a visitor misidentified as Commissioner Bingham.
In Nottinghamshire near Raleigh a valley is linked to an old earthquake tale. Elders tell children and younger neighbors to go there on Christiane mornings and listen as bells ring merrily from church grounds beneath the earth.
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