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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1905
Page
5
A naval holiday greeting highlights the Christmas spirit aboard an American warship. The seafaring crew, known for dedication to duty, shares festive cheer while stationed at a naval yard and awaiting December 25th orders and events.
The article describes Christmas aboard ships on foreign stations with improvised decorations, shipboard feasts including oyster soup and roast turkey, athletic contests, mail duties, and officer and enlisted customs. It notes pie eating contests, pardons for disciplinaries, and plays by the ship’s band ending with taps and thoughts of home.
A prophetic verse by Neil MacBronald envisions dark clouds over Olympus and the loss of prestige for the Delphic oracle. It contrasts fading pagan faith with angelic choristers and star guided sages honoring the infant divinity, placing worldly pomp aside.
A record sized Christmas pie weighing 576 pounds was sent by the Earl of Lonsdale to King George II. It contained numerous game birds and provisions including geese ducks fowls pigeons wild ducks teal starlings partridges woodcock and more along with veal ham flour and butter, recalling the nursery rhyme about twenty four blackbirds baked in a pie.
A London fad featured tiny radium gifts costing $10 to $50. A spinthariscope device held a radium particle under a lens and showed flickering lights in a dark room when viewed through the eyepiece.
In Sonneberg Germany a major toy industry thrives year round as 13,000 residents work in Santa Claus' main workshop. The town's sole industry is doll making with 2,000,000 dolls produced yearly and a $6,000,000 Christmas trade. Over 2,000 women and girls sew doll outfits, many elaborate and couture in style.
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