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Newspaper
Evening Huronite
Location
Huron, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1940
Page
17
Dr. Raymond Gre surveys legends about the Christmas tree origin. The fir tree linked to Eden, Eve’s fruit, and Christ’s birth is linked to Adam’s twig. St Wilfrid’s legend describes a sacred fir rising from a fallen Druid oak, named the holy tree for the Christ Child and peace.
A look at evergreen choices for Christmas displays explains firs and spruces as common showpieces with balsam noted for fragrance. Space and local factors shape tree use, with arbors and various evergreens gaining popularity. The piece also notes how outdoor lighting extends life of greens in well heated homes and highlights the business of producing poinsettias and other holiday flowers as a nationwide enterprise.
They were first used in surgical operations at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore Maryland marking a milestone in medical practice.
At Jantagh L 1 Daurenheim Nurseries showcase Christmas orders surpassing 100000 poinsettias in bloom. Plants measured 19 to 24 inches across with thousands of heather trees and azalea specimens up to 20 inches in circumference. The display includes floral varieties destined for florists shops.
Trucks maintaining greenhouse temperatures run 24 hours a day while hundreds of workers wrap and boxing each plant individually, ensuring continuous processing and shipment.
Explosion at Monargah West Virginia in December 1907 killed 358 men, the worst US mine disaster. A separate note mentions the Irish wolfhound, and a Bangor Maine item reports Mark Howard, 68, hiking to Grange meetings and a Maine state grange event, with a figure of 260,143 railroad travelers last year.
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