Egyptian Flight and Texas Probate Notice
Bible text contrasts with a Texas probate notice about Barbara Norwood a minor. The document cites guardian A P Burks seeks final settlement and discharge with a January 2 1967 hearing at the Comanche County Courthouse. A child’s letter to Santa requests a tractor gun fruit candy and kindness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State OF Texas
Barbara Norwood
Barbera Norwood
Comanche County
Texas
A. P. Burks
Seid Court
Comanche
Bake Ahead Cookie Guide for Holidays and Freezing
Prepare and freeze cookies before the Christmas rush. Chocolate Drop Cookies freeze well. Mix eggs sugar and vanilla, cream, sift with flour baking powder soda salt and cocoa, drop teaspoonfuls on greased sheet, bake at 350.
FHA Members Host Luncheon For Area Group
On Saturday November 19 the Comanche Young Homemakers hosted a luncheon for Area FHA members. Twenty four guests were served baked chicken rice green peas congealed salad hot rolls iced tea and cake. The foods committee was led by Benita McDonald and Rena Lackey with decorations by Sarah Spalding and Ann Lane. The executive committee met to plan the Area FHA meeting in March and Bette Cox of Comanche is Area IV president.
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Comanche Young Homemakers
FHA
Benita McDonald
Rena Lackey
Sarah Spalding
Ann Lane
Bette Cox
Comanche
Soldiers in VN Find God Alive Through Christmas Letters
On Christmas Day in Vietnam a wounded yet hopeful soldier reads a home letter, recalling family and gifts as jungle life fades in memory. The moment of peace and longing for meaning suggests God remains alive to those on war’s front lines. A two year old’s Christmas wish to Santa asks for a piano and car, while urging care for all children.
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Vietnam
God
Dear Santa List from Aprile Elliott 30
A handwritten letter from Aprile Elliott asks for a walking doll that can roller skate a buggy a set of dishes a telephone to talk on a view master showing cartoons and a Southern pine Tex as Yellow Pine a major supplier of pulp wood wood poles piling construction lumber and many chemicals and products for holiday gifts.
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Santa
Aprile Elliott
Witches and Candy Canes in Medieval Christmas Lore
Europeans in the Middle Ages used glass canes filled with colored candies to distract witches during Christmas. The myth holds that witches focused on sorting the candy, allowing people to avoid spell casting.
Christmas Bells and Santa Claus in Longfellow Verse
A nostalgic fragment features Longfellow’s Christmas bells and carols with lines about peace on earth and goodwill to men. It cites Francis P. Church declaring No Santa Claus and praises eternal joy for children as Christmas light shines.
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Egypt
Matthew
Lord
Joseph
Herod
Na Tate
A.V. Ives
Fred Hall
Winnie Wyche
Jim Lloyd
Wismee
Noel
North American
Proffitt's
C. A. Proffitt
Lee He
Burton Bros
Ivuf
Ulwlwews
Asw
Central Texas Fertilizer Co
Hooker Farm Chemicals, Inc
Longfellow
Santa Claus
Francis P. Church
Virginia
Joseph Mohr
Jesus the Saviour
G. Macfarren
Tusser
Dudley Bros
Central
William Lane
N. Cole
International Pest Control
Gayle Scifres
James F. Hallmark
E. Central
Clark Insurance Agency
Austin ST
Nellie Mab
Mims Memorial Osteopathic Hospital
Comanche, Texas
Royd. Mims, D.O
South
Austin
W. S. Gribble, D.O
Dan Mims, D.O
Comanche Funeral Home
Porter B. Franks
Mgr
Scott
Leslie
Comanche Hospital, Inc
Flannery
Blackwood Clinic
Pho
W. D. Blackood
D.O
W.W. A. Flannery
Haid
Ladora
James
Wherseay
Xtvee
Hope Local
Fach Thanet
Werce
G. W. Ware
W W. H. Dudney
Ins
East
waLcory
Marie N
Rilfy
Man Hamilter
Oak Lawn
Pune
Worth
Willam T
Mamirom
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