Tramp's Christmas Night Tale In New York Saloon
A weary tramp in ragged dress shares a bleak Christmas tale with a reporter in a New York saloon. He reveals a life of study abroad and dissipation, recalls exile from England, and offers blunt warnings about alcohol and decline, ending with a temperance counsel to the journalist.
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Kris Kringle
Oll
Carol
Kent
Eton
Oxford
Heidelerg
Paris
Old Country
America
Somerset House
Dri Beck
New York
The
Herald
N.Y. Herald
Yule Tide Thoughts on Christmas Giving
A writer reflects on celebrating Christmas beyond exact dates, praising winter gifts as a time of giving to the poor. They praise Puritan restraint yet advocate keeping the spirit of Christmas, noting how generous acts uplift others and inspire more giving.
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Prince of Peace
Christmas Cheer and Bretons Echoing Old Song
In reflective prose the author longs for carolers and shared generosity this Christmas, contrasting cheerful acts with cold hearts. The piece describes Breton Christmas customs, including a cake with a bean that crowns a queen and a king who must fund the feast, then kiss the queen before returning to ordinary life.
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Noel
L’ Ap
Auberge
Five Families Asked About Charity Purchases
An itemized query asks how many Christmas dinners coal and comforts could be bought for five poor but respectable families with a sum of 8500. The note invites readers to subscribe to The Star.
Holiday Gift Line Displays Fancy Notions
A local store advertises a Christmas gift line featuring ladies and gentlemen wear and ornamental items. The display includes ties, lace and satin collars, hemstitched handkerchiefs, fancy bordered and silk handkerchiefs, brocaded ribbons, lace, gloves, stockings, corsets, towels, and purses among other notions and novelty goods.
Multi nation Christmas customs from rosemary to Santa
The article surveys Christmas traditions across countries. It notes holiday fortune games for maidens in SUABLA, Italian feast customs, Spanish Christmas practices, Russian Epiphany focus, Lapland offerings, French gift lore, Norse Yule festivities, and the American experiment with carols, family dinners, and church attendance. It mentions a variety of locales and customs and emphasizes festive meals and observances.
Christmas Day Jubilance and Holiness Echoes
Poem recalling Christmas Day joy with soldiers in a grim yard nearby, wolves hushed by celebration. It contrasts festive cheer with silent fear, praising Christ’s birth and the bright morning glow as herald of peace and gratitude.
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Kriss Kringle
Ray
Cource-Yard
Christmas Customs Across Europe and the Christmas Tree
The article surveys festive practices in various countries, noting German origins of the Christmas tree, the mistletoe tradition, and other customs. It contrasts ancient jollity with modern restraint, mentioning wassail, carols, and the shift from yule log to evergreen tree across Europe and beyond.
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Ugistraus
England
Christmas spirit fills the press and streets nationwide
The Galveston News reports a festive mood as Christmas spreads across newspapers, churches, and homes, described as a refreshing, sunlit poem for the season. A Galveston woman warns about weak wine meant to assist in lifting guests into carriages, reflecting local holiday scenes and social humor.
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New York Commercial
Embroidered Foot-Rest Gift Sparks Odd Courtesy
A quirky quip from the New Afaven R vister describes a Christmas present of a handmade embroidered foot-rest and the comic request to swap it for a head rest by ousting a shoulder, highlighting a playful social exchange.
Philadelphia Woman Presents Cardamom Gift for Christmas
A Philadelphia woman plans to give her husband a pound of cardamon seed as a Christmas present, noting she prefers its scent to cloves. The item is mentioned in the Philadelphia Chronicle Herald.
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Philadelphia
Philadelphia Chronicle- Herald
Brattin Jewelers Highlight Holiday Display Across Town
Green Castle Banner and Danville Union describe Brattin as a premier jeweler offering watches clocks and silverware with a broad holiday display. They note his expanding stores in Greencastle Brazil Spencer and Danville, his celebrated Brattin Watch line and trusted repair services. Endorsements from Rev Fisk and Prof Ridpath praise Brattin timepieces as top in quality and accuracy.
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Brattin
Danville Union
Spencer Journal
Uticn
Bratt
Greencastle
Brazil and
Spencer
Danville
Greencastle Press
Estep
Danville Democrat
E. W. Fisk
J.C. Ridpath
Indiana
Asbury University
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