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Newspaper
Comanche Chief
Location
Comanche, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1961
Page
4
This excerpt urges restoring the word Christmas to reflect Christ rather than commerce. It argues the season has become dominated by ads and promotions and stresses remembering whose birthday is celebrated rather than sales. It challenges the shorthand Xmas and calls for prioritizing the Christ in Christmas.
A short, festive meditation advises mixing equal parts joy and peace to spread worldwide. It adds faith and hope as essential ingredients, suggesting a prayer may help ensure a generous share for all.
Christmas in Brazil blends midsummer outdoor celebrations with picnics and fireworks while maintaining the Christian observance. A procession of priests in ecclesiastical regalia leads believers to cathedrals for the midnight mass and presepio nativity displays in homes and churches.
Guidance for home decorating during the Yale season emphasizes including a seasonal symbol like a Nativity scene, involving children in the process, adding fresh blooms such as poinsettias, ensuring all decorations harmonize, and keeping the overall display simple.
Christianity began Christmas gift exchanges with gifts of gold frankincense and myrrh. Saint Nicholas in Asia Minor inspired Santa Claus signals, while Italy France and South America feature varied gift legends. A child writes asking Santa to bring a race car tank and fireworks as his father serves overseas.
The message urges a deep, lasting Christmas spirit beyond ornament and ritual. It emphasizes meditation on Christ's birth and the promise of eternal salvation, insisting true observance lasts beyond December 25 and keeps the holiday meaningful year round.
A playful Christmas greeting quiz lists phrases like Buon Natale and Joyeux Noel with garbled endings and an answer key naming languages and nations. Included are brief, personal Christmas wish notes from several children to Santa listing toys and family members.
A brief look at how Clement Clarke Moore Irving and Thomas Nast helped forge the modern Santa. Irving’s Knickerbocker History of New York introduced a rooftop gift delivery image in 1809. Moore popularized the sleigh and eight reindeer shifting from a horse drawn wagon. Nast later amplified Santa’s round belly and overall look in 1863 cartoons.
Children in Abilene and Sidney School write Santa with Christmas wishes. Marcia Spalding asks for a doll while Michael requests a BB gun electric train and bicycle. Tracy Cottrell names Tiny Tears doll and toys and remembers friends in the letter.
Two children write to Santa. Bishop Payne asks for BBs and signs his name. Steven Lynn Adams at Sidney School requests an electric football game and signs his note with love.
The article urges holiday travelers to drive cautiously during winter conditions. It notes snow ice and unpredictable weather raise hazards and advises using snow grips chains and heaters to improve safety. It emphasizes that careful driving can prevent tragedy during the holiday season.
A second grade boy Patrick writes to Santa asking for an electric football game for himself and a doll for his sister. He mentions a doll house a doll a buggy a little doll a truck a toy horse and identifies Edith Trotter.
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