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Christmas on a 1915 farm remembered in 1973 reminiscence
The writer recalls rural life in 1915 with wood and coal heat, lamp chimney curling irons, fur muffs, tobacco habits, spittoons, and tobacco ads. Families shop from mail orders, receive frozen fish in wooden boxes, and decorate a living fir Christmas tree with popcorn and cranberries. Christmas dinner is home, with two weeks of holidays before corn-picking season.
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