Gift List From a Large Family For Christmas Cheer
A playful household catalog lists grandpa and grandma plus Aye children and twins. Grandpa eyes a meerschaum pipe while grandma holds bonnets and shawls. Dad buys cigars, mom seeks the best. Cholly longs for flight gifts, Gladys wants candy and a hatpin to marriage. The twins yearn for skates, sleds, motorcycles, and Millie desires many things. Baby’s wishes depend on age toward a toyshop’s contents.
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Heavenly Twins
Willie
Millie
Bachelor’s Christmas Eve and the unseen boon
A narrator encounters Santa Claus by the hearth in a poetic reminiscence. The fairy tale wish centers on love once lost and the cost of rekindling it, as the clamor of the wind and a fading ember echo a sorrowful fate. The speaker foresees that the cherished boon lies beyond Santa’s reach.
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Santa Claus
Christmas North and South Celebrations Compared
Washington celebrates Christmas in the northern style by closing stores and keeping quiet while Alexandria, Virginia observes a rousing southern Christmas with rockets and noise. The piece notes southern Christmas echoes old Merrie England and pre reformation Europe, contrasting Puritan restraint with Cavalier festivity.
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Washington
New England
Alexandria
England
Germany
France
America
Washington Post
Christmas Presents Riff on Social Roles From Yellow Book
A Yellow Book excerpt jokes about suitable gifts for family and friends, listing favors ranging from a sealskin cloak for a servant girl to a Bible for a minister and a downtown job for a son, with sly advice for a daughter and other relatives.
The Day That Comes but Once
A playful exchange about Christmas joy and bills, with Bald Willy Jones and papa debating whether once or twice a year is better as a humorous family vignette. The scene centers on Santa and a lighthearted disagreement over holiday expenses.
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Bald Willy Jones
Costly Kisses At Christmas Across English Life
A Tangled Christmas custom story from Hanley to London describes kisses given to mayors, shop workers, and overlooker hierarchies. Tales include mistletoe firings, fines, and unusual gifts. A Japanese apprentice gets a soap gift while a Pied Bull hostelry kept ale measures for every noon kiss.
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Hanley
Potteries
England
London
Clerkenwell
Farms and Houses for Rent and Sale in West Union
An old style classified notice markets farms for rent and sale, and houses for rent or sale in West Union and surrounding county towns. It urges listing farms for summer sale, proposes buyer interests be collected, notes mortgage options with down payments, and promises money to loan on security with no listing charges unless a sale occurs.
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West Union
Werewolves and Legends of a Sixteenth Century Curse
In Hulme's Love and Legend the tale recounts sixteenth century werewolf lore from John of Nuremberg and Olaus Magnus. A man wanders to a warm fire and learns a wolf may be his countryman in disguise for years. A nobleman’s servant proves a man can shapeshift to bring provisions, then return to humanity.
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John of
Nuremberg
Olaus Magnus
Auvergne
Hulme
Elegies For Old Year Echoes Of Loss And Renewal
The poem selection recalls Lamb Longfellow and Tennyson as they reflect on the old year’s passing and the incoming year. It contrasts grief for the dead with the bold promise of a new beginning, noting jokes fading as time moves on.
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Chierle Lamb
Longfellow
Tennyson
Umme
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Papa
Madma
Cholly
Gladys
Srandp
Holly
Bacheloh
Anta Claus
Samuel Minturn Peck
Ben
From &Ve
J. W. Bopp West Union
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