25 Dec 1918
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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 25, 1918
Page
1
Mrs. Midgety endures a disordered home and dire finances as she contemplates a holiday with scarce resources. A letter from her sister Judith arrives, offering a visit that arrives amid worry about meals and the high cost of living.
Anne Midgely comforts Judith and the four Midgely children as Henry finds a new job after a layoff. Judith’s arrival lifts the home’s mood despite financial strain and looming Christmas. The sisters discuss debts, generosity, and plans to ease hardship for the holidays.
Judith and Anne use scraps to knit mittens and sew dolls for poor children. They adapt a Welsh dinner, invite the Lambert family, and welcome John Telch from France on leave. The Christmas gathering includes carols, gifts, and Judith’s Red Cross plans, ending with hope for the front.
Fragments show a playful exchange about Christmas Day. Questioning if the wife enjoyed it, one replies not as much but notes having a chance to walk and talk with loved ones after Christmas. The text captures casual domestic chatter with garbled spellings.
In a Kansas Star reminiscence, Mrs. Tipple criticizes Dora Billow’s ability to work, warning Nathaniel Ripple that Dora’s weakness would burden him. After tense opposition, Nathaniel marries Dora, and Mrs. Ripple later praises Dora for keeping clothes clean, deeming her a suitable wife.
Vernon Kellogg recalls a small farming village in France struck by internal explosions not ghosts. A flat-topped hill nearby, cleared and green, was where a French spy supposedly landed and hid after escaping capture, prompting questions about the village’s fate.
In a small town the ladies sponsor an exhibition to aid wounded soldiers. A scruffy stranger interrupts, asking to “live come” and to “Pin a specimen of woman's work” as if the display were a museum. The scene blends wartime charity with comic confusion.
The piece invokes 1914 France with troop trains adorned by poppies and roses as war begins. It references a singer with flowers in his cap, German agitprop, and home front sacrifice, noting Miss Floppy’s appeal for citizens to endure wartime duties and conserve subsistence.
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