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Newspaper
Comanche Chief
Location
Comanche, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1962
Page
9
A letter from a 4 year old boy asks Santa for a cuckoo clock and new house shoes with thanks for kindness. Other lines request items like a rocket gun a diving king suit and a flying plane and mention friends and siblings in a festive child centered note.
Bill Meyers and Jackson Bowers, both students at Sul Ross State College in Alpine, are spending the Christmas holidays at home.
The guide suggests using one ounce of corn per quart of popped corn and offers serving ideas. For children, toothpick figures like a clown or snowman can be made. For adults, garlic onion salt chili curry powder or grated cheese add flavor.
The piece notes Twelve Days games once common in England such as sack races and apple bobbing, a Twelfth Night decorum superstition, and carol singing at midnight services. British children hang stockings on Christmas Eve and write to Father Christmas with wishes.
Shiny holiday painting used to be a fair weather job before odorless quick drying latex paints became common. Repainting rooms is easier today as latex paints avoid lap marks, turning novices into experts with aids like masking tape, disposable buckets, degreasing liquids, guards, small rollers, and plastic drop cloths.
The piece traces how Christmas gifts and customs span centuries and cultures. It notes Roman midwinter gift exchanges, Boxing Day in England, St Francis nativity scenes, twelfth night cakes, Bavarian pageants, Dutch and Belgian quiet services, wooden shoe gifts, Romanian carol processions, Italian and Spanish floral decor, and southern hemisphere midsummer celebrations. It emphasizes universal themes of love and giving.
Fort Worth Star-Telegram offers new and renewal rates with Comanche Chief. One year for both papers costs 18.35 dollars. daily Star-Telegram plus Chief is 15.36 dollars. Subscribe now at The Comanche Chief.
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