A Glad New Year Story of a Widow and Father
A tale set around Christmas and New Year follows widow Dulu Walker struggling with poverty. She works at a shirt machine to feed and shelter her sickly child Jessie, facing eviction until her repentant millionaire father intervenes, restoring a hopeful New Year. The piece contrasts hardship with renewed faith in kindness and family.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Duly Walker
Croton
Stephen Walker
Wall street
Dulu Walker
Jessie
mamma
New York
Pather
gran
Dessie
Mr. Fuller
The Origin of Santa Claus in Saint Nicholas Tale
The piece traces Santa Claus to Saint Nicholas of Asia Minor born to wealthy parents who educated him for priesthood. After their deaths he used wealth to aid the poor, secretly performing good deeds, earning veneration as a bishop and patron of children, with his name evolving to Santa Claus.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Santa Claus
Asia Minor
Nicholas
Santa Niclaus
Holmes
Judge and Juroyman The Clean Shirt Quip
A judge ribs a juryman about not wearing a clean shirt since the man’s wife has been busy sewing buttons for days. The tale pivots to a moral about genuine versus autograph charity, contrasting a barrel of flour to public church donations. An Irishman jokes about a telegraph dispatch hanging on a hook as the operator fiddles with a brass play toy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Louis
Baltimore
Pat
Lawson
Missouri
Texas
Christmas in the house and a sailor’s mischief
A child asks about large bundles that turn out to be starch not soap and learns Santa uses the heater flue to reach the parlor. A sailor friend, Mr Smith, is teased for brushing off whitewash from a back that shows corsets under a jersey, revealing a homey, comic scene.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jane
Santa Claus
Festive musings mix with satire in a long column
A collage of humorous quips about shaved faces and weddings, alongside reflections on Christmas, modern benevolence, and social progress. The piece surveys satire from local barbershop lines to a sweeping essay on Christianity, civilization, and the spirit of Christmas shaping history and society.
Send No Girl A Book Unless You Read It Back
A narrator recalls lending a beloved a book, decades of aging, and the sting of discovering her faded passion written in pencil marks. Time ages both hearts and manuscripts, leaving the moral that sharing a book requires reading the feelings it reveals.
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cot
palace
earth
MISS JULIA EDWARDS
Mary Ann
Sammy Smithn
Simpson
Bridget
Katie Thorn
Centreville Holiday Bulletin
Methodist Episcopal church in America
John Wiley
Wesley
Coke
Asbury
London
first
Methodist society
United States
John Welsey
Richard Boardman
Joseph Pilmoor
America
Francis Asbury
Richard Wright
Methodist church
Fallowfield
Philadelphia
Queensware &c
Smith & Fallowfield
TEMPLEVILLE, MD
R. S. Fountain
EASTON
MARYLAND
Goldsborough
THOMAS S. KINNAMON
SULEls
NOAH WALKER & CO
Baltimore St
Baltimore, Md
GEO. F. SLOAN & Bro
LIGHT STREET WHARF
Herbert WW. Morris
D. D
H. L, WARREN, & CO
Chestnut St
AabHive
THAWLEY
BUTCH HRs
DENTON BRIDE
Lyken’s Valley cc
DENTON, MD
JOHN H. VAN GESEL
Joshua W. Bryant
Anie
LAW
Paiahr W. Downes
M.S. MUTCHLER
DOWNES & MUTCHLER
DENTON, Mp
Caroline
ye W. TILGHMAN
N. TODD
HE IRWIN
AUTIONEERS
R. L. WILLIAMS & CoO
GENERAL COMMISSION MERCHANTS
WILLiams STREET
Ayer
Honduras
Dr. J. C. Ayer & Co
Lowell, Mass
eix
Ohio
Williams College
Damfino
French Academy of Medicine
Chamber of Notaries
Europe
Asia
Africa
Ireland
Russia
Alva
Netherlands
Newspape
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