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Newspaper
Chariton Patriot
Location
Chariton, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 25, 1902
Page
3
A Detroit News Tribune reader recounts Santa Claus lamenting changing times from old fashioned toys to modern trends. He recalls reindeer and sleigh replaced by bicycles and flats, wife adopting new woman fad, and Christmas gifting drifting toward up to date styles.
A Pittsburg Dispatch description notes a Belgian Christmas Eve procession with colorful divisions of children in white blue pink and yellow, each bearing emblems or ribbons attached to religious shrines. Older strong hands carry reliefs while flower strewn streets showcase the solemn concert of drums cornet and carols.
Candlesticks make distinguished decorative and practical gifts for Christmas. Brass antique pairs with simple outlines reflect thrift and good taste, often found in junkshops by clever collectors.
A Kingston Jamaica correspondent notes Christmas amid 95 degree heat with tropical revelry. Markets brim with sweetmeats from London New York and Paris while Jamaica’s chocolate is shipped abroad for candy making. The city dresses for Christmas, bands perform, and fashion shows flash amid a colorful crowd in Victoria Market.
A collection of light Christmas jokes and quips from various sources. Notes on family gifts, Prohibition humor, and holiday cheer mix with a church anecdote about Miss Roseleaf leaving the church after a Christmas Eve incident.
The fragment references a Christmas mood and a festive theme calling for togetherness and singing in light. It evokes seasonal warmth and communal spirit without concrete events, dates, or locations.
The article describes Servian Christmas customs with a father cutting a straight oak for luck, corn grains thrown over him, and a holy fire ceremony. The national dish is pork cooked over a blaze, with the poorest saving to buy a pig. Santa Claus appears as a guest, departing with crakes and gifts after stories, songs, and feasts.
Agnes Repplier in Lippincott's reflects on letters to newspapers asking what to give for Christmas. Readers include schoolboys seeking teacher presents, girls addressing a foreign language teacher, a married woman debating an elderly man who has everything, missionaries needing trinkets, and a man choosing gifts for two nearly adult sisters.
A collage of 1900 era advertisements and notes including DeWitts Early Risers pills lauded for constipation and headache relief, testimonials to cancer cures, cautions about opiate cough medicines, and references to Foley's Honey and Tar. The clippings mention Dr Warner tar syrup and various public notices, with names like Chas Kirk and JAs Cummins.
Lucas County offers vary in land sales and city property. Listings include 160 acres with 80 cultivated and timbered tracts near Chariton, with prices from 37.50 to 42.50 per acre. Several farms feature houses, barns, fruit trees, and good water. Town lots available at 100 dollars with payments of 10 cash and 10 monthly. Missouri or Dakota lands also advertised.
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