Christmas Delivery Joy Delays Personal Sacrifice
A postal worker nicknamed the Captain races through the holiday rush to sort packages for friends and family. He discovers a homebound gift tucked in by a grateful sorter, lifting his spirits as tissue and ribbons scatter around the floor. The scene portrays Christmas from a distant postroom to a hopeful homecoming.
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Charlies
Charles
Sotié Oie
Llesler
Worded Christmas Message by W D Pennypacker
A 1925 Western Newspaper Union note by W D Pennypacker extols human kindness during Christmas. It reflects on enduring fame of kindness, the role of music in Yuletide pleasures, and the hopeful echo of holiday joy through many happy days.
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W. D. Pennypacker
Western Newspaper Union
Christmas in Venice Warships Brighten Harbor Christmas Eve
United States destroyers entered Venice to spend Christmas Eve with the harbor lights and a deck tree reflecting in the water. American sailors stroll the Piazza San Marco area while one gunner longs for home and a real American Christmas dinner in Springfield.
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United States
Venice
Piazza San Matco
Springfield
Marlon R. Reagan
Western Newspaper Union
Merry Christmas Time Here Again
Katherine Edelman celebrates Christmas with vivid images of cheer, fellowship, and giving. The piece extols unity, kindness, and peace as the season’s blessing, linking contemporary joy with the biblical message of glory to God and peace on earth.
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Judea
Wontern
Niet
Michigan notes and notices across cities
In brief items from Marshall to Owosso and Port Huron, a $10,000 gift funds a Memorial Hospital project while a Marshall fire destroys a rural school building. Captain Eddie Rickenbacker discusses aviation growth in Pontiac and Port Huron, and a West Michigan probate informs of Charles Young’s Lake Huron disappearance. Michigan State Horticultural Society officers are reelected. University of Michigan census shows church membership levels. East Lansing coed rides warned. state planners plan Pine River trout pool condemnation. Bay City insurers blamed for fires. Groesbeck era debated at Farm Clubs meeting. Owosso notes rising streetcar fares and a 1926 electric rail comeback.
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Pontiac
Leroy Pelletier
Detroit
Eddie Rickenbacker
Pontiac Board of Commetrce
Port Huron
Edward V. Rickenbacker
America
Detroi
Lions
Chub
Rickenbacker
Charles &G. Young
Lake Huron
Young
Lansing
John Baird
Department of Conservation
Frank Collins
Toledo
Pine River
Lake County
Fred S. Lamb
Cadillac
Collins
Bay City
City Commission
James Douglas
Charles S. Crampton
A. W. Corbett
New Zealand Fire Insurance Company
Douglas
Groesbeck
Michigan Farm Clubs
Resolutions Committee
C. B. Cook
Owosso
Cook
Austin Cole
Clinton County
I. R. Johnson
J. ‘J. Collins
Michigan Electric Railways Company
Chamber of Commerce
Vulcanite Rubber Then Called Ebony Substitute
The article explains vulcanite produced by high sulfur content becomes extremely hard. It is used as a horn ivory bone substitute for combs handles pipes and buttons. The name derives from Vulcan the Roman god of fire.
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Vulcan
Money-Worth Mailer Promises Remedies For Coughs
A promotional notice urges readers to send ten cents to Foley Co in Chicago for a ten cent bottle of Foley’s Honey and Tar Compound and free sample Foley pills and cathartic tablets. It claims universal help and lists local seller H A Anderson.
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Foley &Co
Sheffield Ave
Chicago
Foley
H. A. Anderson
Adv
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Albion Ure
Grand Rapids
Michigan State Horticultural Society
George Friday
Coloma
H. D. Hoot‘nan
Hast Lansing
J. F. Munson
Carl Bushkirk
Paw Paw
Ann Arbor
University of Michigan
Student Christian Association
Hast
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