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Newspaper
Dillon Examiner
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1948
Page
10
A holiday menu features a fast tomato soup starter and a baked ham centerpiece with orange glaze. It provides garnish ideas using cranberry trees, roasted sweet potatoes, apples, and nutty desserts, urging simple table settings and festive touches.
Readable fragments describe a Christmas dinner with items such as tomato Richard crackers assorted relishes baked ham sweet potatoes and apples buttered green beans fruit salad hot rolls plum pudding and sauce. The note hints at a recipe collection or menu listing from a historical page.
The piece warns that Christmas racketeers pose as charities or Salvation Army like groups and use tambourines to solicit funds. It cites estimates that racketeers take in over 100 million dollars yearly and urges contributions to established agencies such as the Red Cross Community Chest and church charities.
Christmas Eve pageant in Rheinfelden features the Sebastian Brotherhood and their Singing at the Fountain. Twelve men in dark clothes and black tophats circle seven fountains starting at the Froschweide where plague began in the 16th century. They uncover their heads when Christ is named.
The article notes medieval Christmas seasons extended from December 24 to January 6 or December 21 to February 2, with long celebrations. Puritans banned Christmas in 1644 and Charles II restored it in 1678.
The boar is cited as teaching mankind the art of plowing by rooting with its tusks. Ancient Druids marked winter solstice with a boar's head to honor Freya, reflecting the animal’s historic role in food and festivity.
A guideline for selecting Christmas toys by age, balancing manipulative, physical, dramatic, arts and crafts, nature and science play. Emphasizes safety for babies with no sharp edges or small parts and washable toys to withstand soiling.
The article recalls historic royal Christmas dinners. Edward III hosted feasts with 2,000 oxen and left overs shared with visitors. Henry III in 1241 ordered 20 large salmon pies. Richard II entertained about 10,000 guests with over 1,000 specialized cooks.
A look at why stockings became linked to Christmas gifts. Historians offer no definite origin, noting stockings were hung by the chimney to dry or keep warm, a natural place for Santa to leave gifts. In parts of France shoes are placed out on Christmas Eve. Some say shoes and stockings near the fireplace were linked to luck and warding off evil spirits, echoing old wedding customs.
The passage highlights Kate Douglas Wiggin and The Birds' Christmas Carol, Louisa May Alcott with Christmas at Orchard House, Vincent Starrett on Snow for Christmas, and Christopher Morley’s The Worst Christmas Story as notable works in American Christmas fiction.
The article notes no pre fifth century Christian observance on December 25 and no fixed date for Jesus birth. Researchers propose dates like January 6 and March 25 but December 25 was established to attract converts from pagan mid winter festivals.
The article traces the origin of Santa Claus to St Nicholas a bishop of Myra in Lycia Asia Minor. It notes his piety and grace from birth his wealth enabling charity and his role as a dispenser of good things. The feast moved from December 6 to being linked with Christmas.
Mrs. Rose Maselanskes of Chicago creates bird cages and geometric straw figures to adorn the Lithuanian Christmas tree, showcasing craftwork linked to festive traditions.
In Newark New Jersey Santa must pass a strict physical exam before serving in a department store and may not kiss children on his knee. In Charleston South Carolina charity Santas are barred from street pitches to avoid traffic hazards as children gather.
A needlework note describes embroidery and crochet options in a quaint old-fashioned girl design for linens. It includes a transfer pattern dated 1914 with motifs 9x19 and two 7x15 inch pieces plus crochet directions.
Keep your iron temperature very low for rayons to avoid crinkles and holes. Use a suction washer to keep hands out of the dry cleaning fluid. Carry salt pepper sugar bowls and napkins to the table on a tray in one trip. Leftover bones used in making soup and stews can contribute calcium to family meals.
A household tip notes that sealing a toothpaste tube break with scotch tape can restore it, and similar taps apply to other tubes. For removing buttons from clothing, sliding a comb under the button and cutting the thread with a razor blade prevents snipping fabric.
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