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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1896
Page
6
A poetic account of wise men following a guiding star to Bethlehem to honor the Christ Child with gifts. They report to Herod, learn Bethlehem as the birthplace, then depart with reverent worship and praise. The piece ends with a celestial chorus of glory and peace.
A retold romance follows Princess Lilith daughter of King Herod as she secretly aids baby Jesus. She learns from Miryam the true messianic kingship of love and service, and chooses to help the infant evade Herod’s slaughter with Zabulon and Noun guiding them to safety.
In May 1661 George Staverton left funds to buy a bull to be boiled for the poor of Wokingham town and parish. Proceeds from selling the hide and offal funded shoes and stockings for poor children. Bulls were boiled on December 21 annually until 1823 when the town ceased the practice amid occasional disturbances.
In Calabris, southern Italy, a Christmas day belief holds vipers do not bite or their bite is harmless as the day’s sanctity neutralizes the poison. The superstition ties the venom’s loss to the holiday’s sacred status.
A nostalgic poem in Clinton Scollard's voice conjures a roving lure in pine cones and frost. It contrasts festive December joys with a yearning to join night winds and sleigh rides with Sally, tracing holiday imagery and music.
Bethlehem hosts a Christmas night of watchful services and grand Roman Catholic ceremonies ending at dawn. A procession led by the French consul gathers city leaders, with the bishop of Jerusalem bearing a cradle and infant Christ. After midnight, candles light the Grotto of the Nativity as monks and clergy participate.
A description of Alsace Christmas cooking details traditional dishes and the kugelhopf bread. The recipe lists four pounds of flour a pound of butter a pint of milk raisins yeast eggs rum sugar salt almonds and method including proving kneading and baking in an earthen pot. Kugelhopf is commonly eaten cold.
Eben E. Rexford outlines how to mix cedar spruce pine and holly for festive wreaths and arches. He urges using varied evergreens with careful paneling and supports pine for light airy effects and mica dusted branches for hoar frost appearances. Flowers should be limited to altars and white lilies preferred.
In Brittany France a Christmas alms custom sees lanterns carried to church by country folk. After mass the lanterns are returned to their owners in exchange for a coin. The old women, waiting outside, receive the lamps and collect generous alms, while the donors feel deeper happiness.
The old custom called for bringing in the Yule log on Christmas Eve with ceremony. The log, kept from the previous year, was lit to purify the home of evil spirits, and the candles joined it in lighting the west room, often tied to three branches symbolizing the Trinity in Catholic practice.
In Glastonbury, south England, a thorn tree is believed to blossom on Christmas Day and again near Easter, a local legend tied to the famous historic site.
Fragmentary note suggests a folk belief across parts of Germany that oxen fall to their knees in the stalls at the moment of Christ's nativity. The text reflects regional superstition rather than mainstream doctrine.
The text outlines a lavish Christmas dinner featuring turkeys stuffed with truffles and a roasted sucking pig with black puddings, sausages, lemon slices, roast duck and rice pudding. It mentions a accompanying dish brea s a kind of flour and cheese cornmeal olive oil salt sugar honey and aniseed formed into a loose exchange.
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