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Newspaper
Choteau Montanan
Location
Choteau, Montana, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1917
Page
1
A New York Evening Sun feature retells a Dickensian scene where a rich owner offers a wish in exchange for a look into a Christmas window. The newsie asks for a five minute ride in the limousine, trading the window view for a fleeting glance inside the car. The old man roams the street with a muttered debt to charity.
Poem reflects on passage from old to new year with themes of renewal and repentance. The speaker links the ending of the old year to a healing dawn and calls for confession, resolve and waking new gladness each day. The lines contrast greed with generosity and envision the new year as a blossom from past ashes.
The Liberty Bell, once used to ring in the New Year at Independence Hall, fell silent after a crack appeared during a 1835 toll. Custodians restricted its use after 1776 and it was last used for New Year salutes in 1830s, with a second bell taking over the yearly greeting in Philadelphia.
A New Year piece argues daily self improvement and consistent kind acts beyond one day. It urges speaking a good word, doing kind deeds, and weeding out personal faults each day of the coming year.
During Chinese New Year houses are decorated and streets filled with shoppers buying provisions new clothes and gifts. A local custom requires settling all debts before the old year ends. a man who starts the new year in debt feels disgraced.
A rhythmic verse celebrates the new year with bright sun, winter cheer, and joyful scenes. Children play in snow and friends exchange warm wishes as birds flit and sing in a crisp winter day.
Morris describes a 19th century Pittsburgh Dispatch style pantomime for New Year festivities. A damp sheet curtain, candles, and actors reveal Halloween an enchantress, the Old Witch, the Old Year, and the Little New Year in a moral tale of gifts and spells amid a staged magical sequence.
The poem celebrates street carolers in December singing Christmas songs by the fireside and in the open air. Minstrels and glee men perform hautboys and devout tunes while shepherds and townsfolk join in, though some feel the cold at the rafters.
A reading session with Sister Marjorie sends Bobby Boy into a snowy forest dream where Merry Bell guides him to imagine Christmas tree woods and the reindeer. The tale explores wonder, kindness, and belief as they picture Santa’s helpers and the magic of Christmas Eve.
The author argues that Christmas in old England spans the twelve days and nights after the Nativity and cannot be confined to a single day. Observances and ceremonies extended beyond Christmas Day, making it impractical to perform all customs on one date.
A vivid reflection on Christmas as a festival of joy that lifts cheerful hearts and pierces gloom, describing how the season’s predominant note of rapture and delight carries readers toward a brighter spirit despite sorrow. The quotation attributes the sentiment to Rev. P. Cadmiu.
The ideal consideration in gift giving is fit to the recipient. What pleases one person may offend another because needs and tastes matter more than cost or beauty.
A Christmas poem celebrates the season and gift of Christ. It notes humbleness and joy, then discusses Nativity paintings from the sixth to sixteenth centuries where ox and ass appear, kneeling in homage to the Maker.
In Berlin a lady watches a Bethlehem stable scene through a window with two sighted girls explaining it to a blind companion. The story moves the girl as she imagines the manger, shepherds and star, while S. E. Bull warns that some possess blind hearts rather than eyes to the tale.
The Russian Christmas is divided into three bars one devoted to Christ one to his mother and one for her fore fathers.
A nineteenth century New England note describes Christmas observance from December 25 to January 3. It recounts gifts and beliefs tied to the twelve days, including a midnight visit myth of cattle kneeling before mongers and a reversed partridge parrot on a juniper tree replacing a partridge on a pear tree. The twelfth day verse lists twelve guns and other items highlighting changes in gift imagery.
A reflection on Christmas joy comes from warm thoughts and cheerful greetings. The value lies in smiling and sharing goodwill rather than expensive gifts.
Poem by Ruth Sprague celebrates Christmas joys with mistletoe holly gifts and cheerful families. It contrasts costly overseas luxuries with simple home made gifts and ends with a plea for kindness to the poor and forgotten children.
A stanzaic excerpt from Clinton Scollard in Lippincott's centers on the Yuletide bell inspiring exclamations of Noel and peaceful wishes. The verses link cattle, bees, and angels to the season’s joy and good will.
The article suggests a gift box as a handy place to store presents for Christmas. It notes that many women with limited means struggle to fund gifts for relatives and friends and sees the box as a boon to extend money over the season.
Dr. Anne Howard Shaw grants her enslaved maid Sarah a Christmas wish. The fifteen year old girl longs for a real-haired doll with eyes, not a common substitute, and receives the cherished gift on Christmas Day. For two years thereafter Sarah proudly carries the doll on her weekly outings.
Kate Langley Bosher recalls Christmas preparations from the New York Times, describing perched on the dining table scenes as fruit cakes, mincemeat, and various baked goods are assembled. The memory highlights family help, mysterious bundles, and the thrill of holiday cooking.
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