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Newspaper
Fredericksburg Standard
Location
Fredericksburg, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1952
Page
12
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A Fredericksburg Public School Christmas celebration week ended with two weeks of vacation for students. Pre K to grade 6 classrooms featured decorations and programs, while high school and junior high held parties, plays, and gift exchanges. The school served a turkey lunch for trustees guests, and students donated to the Warm Springs Foundation Hospital at Gonzales.
Girl Scout troops held multiple Christmas celebrations at the Cabin over the week. Brownie Troop 9 hosted mothers with carols and gift exchanges led by Mrs. Jarvis Wieser. Troop 6’s party featured flower pot gifts for mothers crafted from phonograph records. Troop 8 and Troop 15 hosted games, crafts, and refreshment duties, with various leaders and mothers assisting. Troop 5 hosted a Friday party inviting fourteen boys and friends for games and treats.
Tuberculosis once deadly to young women now kills over twice as many white men as white women, signaling a dangerous shift in its impact and requiring renewed public health attention.
The original score by Engelbert Humperdinck made Hansel and Gretel a holiday sensation. As an intimate Wagner associate his harmonies are called nursery rhymes Wagnerian style. The tale has become part of traditional Christmas music. He mentions his wife Crystal who is always on the watch.
Lucille Moore of the Texas Agricultural Extension Service suggests a family Christmas activity making decorative figures. Create moulding clay from salt flour alum and water then sculpt biblical characters snowmen or angels with clove eyes berry mouths and tiny candle details.
Rowert Real Estate promotes numerous listings including a 5 room home with bath and garage on 5 acres near town, a corner lot modern 5 room house, brick and frame houses near schools, and large acreage options from 42 to 390 acres with riverfront and pecan trees. Prices span from 4,200 to 87.50 per acre with owner financing and trade options.
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