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Newspaper
Decorah Republican
Location
Decorah, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 25, 1913
Page
5
The Republican Decorah reprints Eugene Field’s Christmas Treasures poem. The verse laments a mother’s loss and recalls a child’s joy, the stocking at the chimney, and angels visiting on Christmas night. The piece blends sentiment with memory, reflecting seasonal reflection in a small town paper.
The piece contrasts French Christmas customs with American ones noting that French children receive shoes and modest gifts or money and books. It describes French children’s gift books as virtuous, sermon like tales, uniformly bound in red cloth with gold arabesques, sized to reflect merit and donor generosity.
The mistletoe tale links Balder’s death to Loki and a future curse. Friga safeguards the plant now, suspended from ceilings, used as a token of peace and love when people kiss beneath it.
A brief philosophical note from Sterne condemning self commendation as an abominable act for any man to praise himself.
A Country Gentleman writer recalls a farm Christmas substitute where children chase a masked Santa through haylofts and hollow logs collecting gifts hidden in red and green paper. They uncover toothsome toffee and homemade prizes, praising the outdoor scavenger hunt as far more fun than a traditional tree.
The passage notes that Commodus in Rome established the first Dec 25 Christmas feast about 185 years after Christ. It traces early Christian gatherings on this date, persecutions by pagan emperors, a Christmas day massacre, and how the feast evolved after Rome became Christian with diverse observances across countries and times.
Bohemian bachelors and spinsters cut a hole in a river ice at midnight Christmas Eve and peer into the dark water hoping to glimpse their future spouse. Believers say the face of the chosen mate appears like a mirror, aided by faith and imagination.
Dry wood available including oak and poplar. Four teams hauling and prompt delivery possible. Ring phone number 124 for details and orders.
The famed Christmas poem Twas the Night Before Christmas was written in 1823 by Clement Clarke Moore, then a professor at the General Theological Seminary. It has become an American holiday staple read aloud every Christmas Day for nearly a century.
An Irish legend says the Christ Child wanders on Christmas Eve guided by candlelit windows. Hungarians open doors and spread feasts so he may enter freely. Across Christendom people believe no evil can touch a child born on Christmas Eve.
The Yule log in England is presented as a relic of druidism with a name possibly derived from wheel log. It is claimed the wheel symbolizes the sun’s journey and the Yule fire echoes midwinter fires lit by druids in round towers across Great Britain Ireland France and Spain.
An advertisement claims constipation poisons the body and promises relief from headaches and other troubles. It promotes Dr King’s New Life Pills available 250 at druggists or by mail from H E Bucklen & Co., Philadelphia and St. Louis.
Official publication records the December 15 1913 board meeting. It lists appointments for County Home staff 1914, salaries for steward matron cook Cayman nightman and more, the county physician vote Thomas, road and jail contracts, and tax refund actions. Also notes adjournment to December 17 and 29 1913 with detailed accounts and credits.
Middletown Pennsylvania resident Emma Espenshade reports severe headaches backache and heavy bearing down but after taking Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound she regained health and can do housework she recommends the medicine to others and notes her husband bought it for her. She adds the Pinkham record shows constant victories over women illnesses and invites letters for confidential advice from Lydia E Pinkham Medicine Co. Lynn Massachusetts.
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