Christmas Tragedy Drives Eleanor to Despair
Eleanor Merton, a devoted mother, endures the shocking loss of her son Reginald to malignant diphtheria. Grief consumes her, with only Godfrey Waring offering steady support. On the first anniversary of Reggie’s death she confronts a renewed, overwhelming sorrow as she gazes at the Christmas tree once shared by mother and child.
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Eleanor Merton
Eleanor
Reggie
Godfrey Waring
Godfrey
Wieanor
Regwie
Wleaver
Vicanor
Reginald
Dusiness
Christ Inns
Viodtvey
Tom
Rogele
Eleanor and Godfrey mend a Christmas hurt with charity
Eleanor scolds Godfrey for giving away Reginald's gifts to street children yet she forgives as they suit a shared tragedy. They decorate a tree for the forgotten and, moved by remorse, pledge to help needy children. The next year Eleanor and Godfrey renew the act, dressing the tree for God's little ones.
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Reginiald
Godfrey
Dleanor
Reginald
Rlennar Merton
Godfrey Waring
Eleanor
Christmas Doughnutea Recipe From Harper's Bazar
A Colonial Christmas table staple, a recipe for raised doughnuts from Harper's Bazar. The method uses layd or butter, milk, yeast, sugar, eggs, nutmeg and salt. Warm milk with food, mix with yeast, rise overnight, add remaining ingredients, knead, shape, rise again, and fry. Finish with sugar sprinkle on a napkin-lined platter.
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New England
Harper's Bazar
Lycoming State News Condensed Pensions Granted
The weekly pension list adds names from multiple towns including Wilson Phillipsburg Cravin Wilkinsburg Hoffer Carlisle Siwitzer Rowsyerville Seibert Summerville Sturl Poltaville McKees Reeks Harr Girard Summers Mahoning Mansfeld Fairmount City Dobson. Voters in DuBois face a $30 000 debt increase for water system completion amid a near limit balance. Lehigh Valley brakemen and flagmen wage raises set. coal school supply concerns in Philadelphia. various local deaths burglaries and civic events. and a diphtheria epidemic closing Conemaugh schools with Mayer Bros pottery fire.
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Thomas D. Wilson
Hoysdale
John F. Morris
Phillipsburg
Walter C. Cravin
Wilkinsburg
John H. Hoffer
Clay-Lins
William H. Cornman
Carlisle
Daniel Siwitzer
Rowsyerville
Daniel Seibert
Summerhill
Augustus A. Sturl
Poltaville
William McGinnis
McKees Reeks
William P. Harr
Sterling Run
Howry Sanborn
Russell
Lyman Weeks
Girard
John S. McCoy
Indiana
William M. Chrt
Sncols
George Mc Gray
Lemont Furnace
James C. Farley
Gaines
John F. Ho
Andersor Ereek
Lehigh Valley Railroad
Packerton
Hazleton and Mahoning
Board of Education
Philadephia
Philadelphia and Reading Coal Company
Richard Byers
Glearfield County
Dunio
Johnstown
D. B. Shellenbenger
Bannerville
Bedford County Teachers’ Institute
J. Anson Wright
Meyersdale Lodge No. Ey A. O. U. W
R. Frazier
Wheeling
W. Va
Deeputy
Ward M. Sackett
Juniata College
Huntingdon
I.harvey Brumbaugh
Pansy A. Newton
Perry Township
Epener
Lawrence County
New Gas+ ile
Gibson
York
Philadelphia & Reading Railroad
W. A. Stone
Frederick M. Trexler
Lehigh County
Edwin Albright
Gray
Scranton
Conemaugh
Mayer Bros
Beaver Falls
Half Chrysanthemum Plucked At Wallsend Northumberland
A fragment notes one half of a chrysanthemum plucked at Wallsend in Northumberland is pure white while the other half is heliotrope shale. The brief item records an unusual flower detail without further context.
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Tweedleord
Tweedle-dum
Tweedle-dee
Humpty Dumpty
Wallsend
Northumberland
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Wd Te
Gooricky
Mrs. Merton
Santa Claus
Christus
Codfrey
Washington Irving
Mast Seventeenth Street
New York
Athlon
Henry Morris
Paloy
Tolland
St. Nicholas
Papa
Bobby
C.g
Nlystone State News Condensed
Burke
St. Vitus
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