Arkansas awards honor salesman of year at Little Rock dinner
Friday December 24 1971 details the Purchasing Management Association of Arkansas dinner in Little Rock where Gil Strackbein of Moore Business Forms won Salesman of the Year for outstanding service. Two $500 graduate scholarships were awarded to Jack Forest and Donald Weinrach, both pursuing doctoral marketing degrees. Forest hails from Little Rock and Weinrach from Elmwood Park Illinois.
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Purchasing Management Association of Arkansas
Little Rock
Gil Strackbein
Moore Business Forms of
Association
Arkansas
University of Arkansas At Bavetteville
Jack Forest
Donald
Card of Thanks and Christmas Services Notice
Card of Thanks expresses gratitude to Rev Stackweather and others for sympathy after Mrs Cecil Bode death and mentions meals cards and flowers. Also includes Catholic church service schedule for Christmas and New Year plus a note about Alabama becoming a legal Christmas holiday in 1836.
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W D. Stackweather
LPS Legal
Alabama
Harper locals share holiday visits across towns
The community notes Christmas and visiting plans as residents of Harper and nearby areas spend time with relatives. Families mentioned include Wen del, Levens, Brown, Culpepper, Laughennig, Molder, Mauldin, Pittman, Crenwelge, and Parker, with trips to Austin Lubbock Dallas and Doole and hunting in South Texas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bill Culpepper
Arkansas
Eddie Laughennig
Austin
Homer Molder
Dallas
John Molder
Christmas Memories From Harper Texas Past
The piece recalls old time Christmas in Harper with sleighs and torches guiding a church visit, forest echoes of bells, family gatherings, and the suspenseful arrival of Father Christmas as imagined by Jenny Nystrom’s illustration of the iconic figure.
Legend of Poinsettia Origin in Mexico
A Mexican town tale tells of a poor boy who prayed outside a church and a miraculous scarlet plant with a yellow center appeared as an offering to Christ. The plant came to be called The Flower of the Holy Night and later inspired the poinsettia name after American Dr. Poinsett brought it to the United States. The boy’s name is unknown.
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Mexico
Christ
Poinsett
United States
Martin A. Nestler
Art World Security Gallery
Junction Hwy
Kerrville
August Lenox
Orville A. Campbell
Lonnie Mason
Lubbock
Don Macdonald
Preston Smith
Mary Stout
Waco
David Slade
Colorado
Thelma B. Park
Bells through history and art illuminate devotion and lore
The piece surveys bells as living symbols in medieval worship and art. It cites prayers for protective sound and notes poets and painters who celebrate bells, mentioning figures like Victor Hugo, Bill Shaddix, G Harvey Jones, Frederick Becker, and Al Nester, and recalls the legend of Bishop Paulinus in Campania.
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Apostles
Knife
Bill Shaddix
G. Harvey Jones
Great Southwest
Frederick W. Becker
California
al Nester
Thank you for attending Harper school chili supper and concert
Community thanks attendees for the Harper school cafetorium event last Wednesday night. Donations and pie cake purchases supported the effort. The piece mentions Christmas creches and seasonal activities, noting ice, skaters and dancing in rural regions amid cold weather.
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Harper School
Christmas Market Glows in Stockholm's Old City
CF Great People gathered at the central square of Stockholm's Gamla Stan for a pre holiday Christmas market. The area overflowed with scents of gingerbread saffron bread mulled wine candles and spruce. Vendors offered every Christmas item as horses snorted and voices rang through the market stalls in the Old City.
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Stockholm
Old City
The Mistletoe and Christmas Customs
The Druids called mistletoe all heal and believed it cured diseases and countered poisons. Kissing beneath it was sport only with a sprig cut by a golden knife and a berry removed with each kiss. In Austria a Christmas custom decorates a bird pleasing tree with edible suet rings.
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Austria
Also Mentioned on This Page
Harper High School
Arkansas Democrat Paper
Weinraeh
Forest
Lattle Rock
Weinrach
Elmwood Park
Ill
Cecil Bode
Della Mae Lange
Arthur Lang
Harper Locals
A. C. Wendel
Watkins Tarr
Mrs
Clint Brown
Bobby Brown
San Angelo
G. C. Stevens
Garland Black
Jim Bob Stevens
South
Texas
Lynn Mauldin
Yoakum
LaVon Parker
L. C. Pittman
Albany
Dan Crenwelge
Amy
Leon Dunn
Legion Hospital
Dallas Rieger
Joe B. Rieger
Menard Rest Home
Menard
Gary Rahe
Kansas City Royals
Florida
Harold Rahe
Glenda
Wayne
Guenther
Harry Wilke and Son
Wilke
Harper
Dan Ellis
Kimble County
Jack Jones
The
Rio Ranchero Ranch
Harper Herald
Harper, Texas
Father Christmas
Santa Claus
Jenny Nystrom
Father
Sweden
Harper Public High School
Veterans Hospital
Kerrville Gallery
Deles
Victor Hugo
Paulinus
Nola
Cat. Pania
Can. Panula
Vo? Water ST
Tekas
Eckhardt & Klier
Security Insurance Agency
Frederiksborg Texas
Reuben Eckhardt
Helen Jenschke
Comme
Alton Klier
Florine Crenwelge
Clinton Herber
St Prancis
Mary
Joseph
Jesus
Bethlehem
Dalecarlin
Harper Band Boosters
Crecre
George Chambers
J. J. Patranella
Fredericksburg, Texas
Lochte Storage
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