Phone Message to Santa Claus by Joe Anderson Norris
A Brooklyn man uses a toy telephone to contact Santa Claus asking him to fetch a large silver watch for a New York boy on Fifteenth Street. The plan collapses when the man discovers grease ruined his overcoat. the boy’s polite calls to Santa end with a twist.
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Santa Claus
Joe Anderson Norris
Santa
Central
Iceland
Brooklyn
New York
Fifteenth Street
Jlong-dietance
New York Press
Magazine Club offer for four family magazines
The notice promotes a club for Spare Moments Mothers' Magazine Dress Making at Home and another high class publication. All four issues can be sent to one address for $1.45, a discount from regular prices.
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the Weekly Record
Mothers’ Magazine
Christmas on an Ice Ship Story of a Wrecked Brig Holly
Captain S A Hoyt recalls spending Christmas aboard an improvised ice ship built from a wrecked brig near the Horn. He describes cutting a pinnacle of ice into a hull, rigging a bark, launching the craft named the Holly, and sailing toward Callao before melting in warmer seas. A steamer later rescued crew and cargo, making the loss insured a wash.
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Pacific
S. A. Hoyt
Masters and Plots’ Association
Seattle
Wash
Holly
Horn
Callao
Old Lady Buys Letter From Postoffice Sale Then Traces Brother Ben
In a Washington Star inspired tale a precise old lady buys a bundle at a dead letter sale for 85 cents. Inside she finds a letter from a Massachusetts girl to her brother Ben in Wisconsin. The postman locates Ben, and the siblings are later reported thriving. A separate note mocks fraudulent fat ads from a thin advertiser promising easy weight gain.
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National Postoffice
Down East
Massachusetts
Ben
Wisconsin
Mary Burgess
Wis
Washington Star
Last Christmas of the Confederate War Ends Hope and Desolation
Mrs. Zebulon B. Vance recalls wartime Christmas days in the South from 1861 to 1864. She describes battles and sieges shaping the holiday, shortages of supplies, homemade clothes and shoes, and the emancipation realization among enslaved people as the Confederacy neared defeat.
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South
Zebulon B. Vance
United States
North Carolina
Vicksburg
Gettysburg
Pittsburg
The Actor's Christmas and Other Holiday Tales
A Buffalo News piece recalls life on stage during Christmas with a touring actor describing travel mishaps and hard luck before a big holiday audience. A New York Times anecdote shares a child's Christmas prayer about forgetting a coveted muff, while a brief quip ends with a witty line about love and a mischievous brother.
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Edward M. Grout
New York City
Santa Claus
Grandma
Grandmas
Santa Clause
New York Times
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