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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1917
Page
11
A fragmentary verse recalls a burglar scene and a child awaiting Santa Claus. The speaker asks who roams the room and suggests Santa will test faith before bed. The poem ends with the promise that Santa will live in every Christmas face when the child grows. James J. Montague in New York in American.
The Buffalo Ex recounts Edwin Booth hosting a Christmas visit at Cos Cob Connecticut where a visitor dressed as Santa Claus distributed gifts from a cart pulled by a large Siberian husky. A chaotic attempt at delivering presents ends with a runaway dog and hundreds of dollars worth of gifts scattered in the snow.
A fragmentary reflection on Christmas in Rome highlighting religious observance at St. Peter’s with candle illumination and Nativity displays. It mentions Italian art lovers and the season’s family festivities, framing Christmas as a fusion of devotion and merry pageantry with affectionate notes about Santa Claus.
Edwina Ray plans a Christmas gift for Santa with 12 cents earned by herself. She buys a Patty and Her Pitcher storybook and candy, then hangs a stocking with a note for Santa. Christmas morning reveals a room full of toys and a missing Santa note.
The article reflects on Bethlehem and the Nativity site, describing the cave below the Church of the Nativity as the birthplace of Jesus and noting the lamps watched by church guardians. It contrasts shepherds’ journey with Jerusalem’s high priests, urging reverent worship at Bethlehem and devotion to the child in Mary’s arms.
A young Lord Wolseley and comrades improvised a Christmas pudding during the Crimean War. They boiled a boisterous mix of meat and fruit in a cloth, then faced orders to move. Hungry, they ate it before leaving, later suffering a night of indelicate aftereffects from the improvised dish.
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