Christmas customs abroad vary by country
Americans would find Christmas differences in Great Britain Germany Ireland Scotland and Italy. England keeps Christmas with cards carols and stockings for the young while Boxing Day follows gifts for service workers. Germany under Nazi influence omits Christ in greetings and features pagan sagas and military toys for children. Italy lacks Santa Claus but celebrates Epiphany with the Three Wise Men on January 6.
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Great Britain
Germany
Italy
England
Santa Claus
Father Christmas
Christman
Christ
Thor
Wotan
Nick
Nut
Christmas In Cow Camp Days Aboard The Range
An oral reminiscence recalls Christmas in late cow camp life. Old-timers like Tom Adams describe lean gift lists, heat from bunkhouses, lanterns replacing electric light, and work first not festivity. They note religious observances and rare adult gift exchange, with paydays and town purchases shaping the season.
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Tom Adams
Missouri
Adams
Wall
Christmas Stories Offer Reading Ideas For Family
Desca Hale of the A and M College Extension Service urges families to read aloud this Christmas, assigning a reader and suggesting titles. Readings include Luke 2 4 20 and works by Ruth Sawyer Elizabeth Sechrists The Christmas Nightingale Dickens Thackeray Van Dyke Tolstoi and others.
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College Station
Desca Hale
A. and M. College Extension Service
Bethlehem
Ruth Sawyer
Elizabeth Sechrist
the Kelly
Thackeray
Howell
Frank Stockton
Tolstoi
van Dyke
Henry van Dyke
Goif made man visits Kerrville on Tuesday
Mr and Mrs V Russell and some of Klein Branch were shopping in Kerrville Tuesday. The phrase revacy work of a wife and three daughters appears in the text.
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Mrs. V. Russell
Som
Klein Branch
Kerrville
December Origin as Tenth Month in Early Rome
December traces its name to the old Roman calendar when March started the year and what is now December was the tenth month. As Julius Caesar reformed the calendar, the month retained the name December though it became the twelfth month in our current system.
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Julius Caesar
Mars
Atlas
Mercury
Jupiter
Junius
Quintilis
Augustus Caesar
Gregory XIII
Christopher Schlussel
Claavium
Aloysius Lilius
ABC
Nelson
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Business & Profes
Sional Directory
Newton D. Warner
Earl Garett St
J. L. Bullard
Pampell’s
Blue Bonnet Drug Store
Sinclair Refining CO
Fredericksburg
Texas
Palace Theatre
Walter Knoche
Schreiner Wool & Monair
Kerrville, Texas
Texaco
Bill’s Lunch Room
J. F.wedekind’s
Advance Motor Company
Ford Sales
Sunnyside Hut
A. D. Boening
Fredericksburg, Texas
Ristimas
Hill Country
Merry Christmas
Mie
Boening
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