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Newspaper
Choteau Montanan
Location
Choteau, Montana, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1917
Page
2
A look back at Christmas traditions including the Yule log and boar's head as opening revels, notes on carols origin, and how swans became a Christmas table dish in Norwich. Also reports on New York trust company employees celebrating with a Christmas party, tree, orchestras, and gift handouts.
A tale from Captain A. B. Townshend’s A Military Consul in Turkey describes a Christmas tree ordered from Sofia to Adrianople. Officials balk at receiving a tree from abroad, labeling it forbidden, then ship it to Stamboul and back, finally declaring it a Turkish tree to satisfy authorities. The piece ends with a quip on Christmas decoration choices.
A 1910 verse requests Santa to update the big book of children. The narrator TED asks to erase a past misdeed and notes reforms after leaving a troublesome gang and obeying rules. He seeks a clean slate for December.
Florida sojourn poet Riley sends Indiana a Christmas note praising love and homecomings. He envisions a world lit by festive trees, gleeful faces, and bells while the sad planet finds renewed joy from sea to sea.
The piece traces Christmas trees from ancient Egyptian use of date palms as symbols of life to a Scandinavian myth of a service tree. It notes later Luther’s legend of lighting a fir tree to illustrate a snowlit forest, linking the tradition to family celebrations and enduring symbolism.
The article praises Charles Dickens as the pioneer of the familiar Christmas story with A Christmas Carol and notes its global impact and profitability. It contrasts Dickens with Thackeray, discusses sales over the years, and mentions subsequent Christmas works including The Chimes and Household Words pieces.
A Victorian poem reflecting on the Nativity and the pace of peace. The speaker invokes the Magi shepherds and angels, urging readers to keep faith and act with love and trust to hear the angel song.
The article traces plum pudding as the oldest Christmas dish, noting its first appearance in form by 1675 after earlier yuletide plum porridge. It covers evolution from beef broth with bread and pungent spices to the modern pudding, and mentions a French variant “plumbuting” under Louis XVIII that used breadcrumbs eggs and rice flour to reduce suet.
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