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Christmas Day Reflections on Yuletide Cheer and Spending
The piece discusses Christmas as a children’s festival and family day, warns against overindulgence, and notes the rise of the Pay as You Go Christmas idea. It cites health cautions from Dr. Monaghan, postal spending trends in 1928, and quotes from Martha Haskell Clark and Charlotte Perkins Gilman.
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Tom, Dick and
Harriet
John Dickinson Sherman
America
Martha Haskell Clark
Scribner's Magazine
Clement Clarke Moore
Santa Claus
Frank d. Monaghan
New York
Post Omce
Dallas
Texas
Kansas City
Louisville
Chicago
Milwaukee
St. Louis
Letter Carriers’ Union
United States
Society For the Prevention of
Christmans
Charlotte Perkins Gilmans
Century Magazine
Jesus
George J. Phair
Chicago I Herald and Examiner
Chicago Evening Post
Carl Sandburg