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Newspaper
Golden Valley Chronicle
Location
Beach, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1913
Page
2
Readers sense a festive mood in Riley's verse as Christmas nears. The speaker describes a bittersweet feeling that accompanies holiday tidings, appetite, and memories, noting a mysterious ache that cannot be tied to one cause yet remains tied to the season.
A New York World note describes a dinner table game to play at Christmas. Guests snap cranberries with a knife held left handed while the right hand trails behind. Scoring assigns hosts and relatives points for cranberry hits and laps. A fateful line hints at a comic finale.
The article explains holly’s Christmas use tracing back to Saturnalia. Romans decorated homes with holm to ward off evil and sent holly sprigs with wealth and prosperity wishes. Early Christians adopted these Saturnian symbols to ease festival contrasts.
Excerpts discuss people choosing to shop early for Christmas and start savings, including a plan to create a Christmas fund. Other notes describe St Stephen's Day customs in the Isle of Man with bird-stoning and legends about a transforming siren called a wren.
A playful meditation on Jack Horner and Christmas pies written in the voices and styles of Edgar Allan Poe, Walt Whitman, Shakespeare, Swinburne, and Turner. The piece blends nursery imagery with literary pastiche to explore indulgence, tradition, and the act of writing itself.
A nostalgic mix of notes on jewelry trends December decorations and gemstones including turquoise stones for December and the allure of diamonds and pearls. The piece touches on evaluating real gems versus imitations and recalls a former practice of punishing innocents on Herod’s day alongside light holiday quips.
A reflective piece on the meaning of Christmas in family life, contrasting warm affection for dad mother and child with critic of excess. It laments commercial excess and urges a considerate, modest spirit aligned with the holiday’s true meaning.
The article notes Holly used as Christmas trees in the southern states with cedar and mistletoe also common. It mentions lines of verse about peace on earth and a mother’s kiss, and references Christmas gossip and social greetings amid holiday behavior.
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