New Year Greeting Signals Global Wire Reach
The Washington Star reports a midnight New Year greeting from Admiral Chester of the National Observatory. A global cable network will transmit a single signal circling the earth from Georgetown heights to San Francisco, Honolulu, Midway, Hongkong, and beyond. The feature notes New Year's Day customs in ancient Egypt and the Nile, linking to Egypt’s June calendar and the sacred river's heavenly flow.
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Night of the drop ushers sacred New Year vigil
Priests and people kept a sleepless vigil by the river awaiting a miraculous rise. As the night of the drop arrived, altars were lit, faithful carried coal to light fires, and the land glowed with light. They shed old garments and dressed in white, anointed with sacred oil, crowned, bearing palms as chants and processions filled homes.
Talking toy doll sings and chats like a person
A German idea brings Christmas novelty a talking doll with a two inch disk machine inside. The nurse inserts a record in the doll's back and the doll can converse for minutes sharing songs and phrases. Two dolls with records can engage in intelligent conversations, the London Daily News reports.
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Germany
London Daily News
Christmas Thoughts From Historic Voices
A collection of festive reflections from Phillips Brooks Thomas a Kempis Washington Irving Henry Drummond and Charles Dickens. The quotes urge humility renewal charity hospitality and peace inspired by Christmas and the spirit of the season.
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Kempis
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Henry Drummond
Christmoas
Charles Dickens
Christmas Fires And The Yule Log Through History
A collage of Christmas traditions describes reviving the Yule log with hard wood, cedar kindling, and brass or pine, recalling Druids and the old perpetual fire. It then traces Christmas origins to Pope Telesphorus and Dec 25 as Nativity date, with midnight to dawn services, and mentions German doll industry wages and buckwheat cakes.
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Local Notes From Chalfants and Tunnel Hill Mingle News
Chalfants reports visits and travels among family and friends around Milfori Coshocton and Columbus. Local youths plan Pittsburg work in Adams Express for two weeks while social events yield modest proceeds. Death of J P Smith of Minneapolis noted. Tunnel Hill scene includes visits and births with protracted union meetings and local ads for buckwheat flour and Hollister's tea products.
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Joseph Kirker
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Harvie Cullison
Ward Kirker
Scott Wright
Grant Anderson
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