Bells of Christmas and the carillon tradition
The article traces the history and spread of church bells from ancient times to the carillon and chimes, noting the Liberty Bell in Philadelphia and the worldwide Christmas tradition of bell music. It highlights Mountain Lakes Flat’s famous carillon and mentions the second-hand toy trade as a Christmas industry revitalizing discarded toys.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Christ
Arctic
Tropics
United States
Napoleon
Henry VIII
Mountain Lakes Flat
America
A. S. C. Forbes
California
Territory
The
Sioux City Santa Claus known as Mickey Finn remembered
A mysterious Christmas figure in Sioux City known posthumously as Mickey Finn, Ed T. Kearney, a real estate man and banker, gave anonymous gifts to prisons and missions with letters signed Mickey Finn. The tale links his Snowman persona to early 1900s bank leadership and charitable co operation. Also notes a strange Hechester badger feast in England where villagers ritually roast and parade a captured badger.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sioux City
Iowa
Santa Claus
Ed T. Kearney
Yuletide
Mickey Finn
Kearney
Cook
Earney
Jackson
Neb
Spirit of Christmas Changes a Stranger’s Day
A driver stops to pick up an old man in December dusk after many pass by. The man, Perry Birch, reveals he wagered to find the Spirit of Christmas, and he and Ted Jenkins discuss Birch’s legendary scientific work. Boston report notes an aerial Santa Claus over New England and a brief history of Christmas dates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
America
Christemas
Ted Jenkins
St. Louis
Mother
Ted
Perry Birch
Lfe
OWNU
Santa Claus
Air
Boston
New England
William H. Wincapaw
West Quoddy Head
New York City
Wincapaw
Bill Jr
Pill
Japan
Tokyo
Penasse
Minn
St. Nicholas
United States
North Point
Warroad
Indiana Pete
Lake of the Woods
Helen Arnold
Yale
Silent Night quell guns on Christmas Eve front lines 1914
In 1914 amid Armenders and Atlas trenches Gordon Highlanders heard Silent Night in two languages. A Scot regiment joined in as German soldiers emerged unarmed, then ordered back as the ceasefire held. The scene spread trench to trench with carols and shared peace across the line.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Norfolk
J. Sutherland Watt
Armenders
Atlas
Gordon Highlanders
Jim
Sutherland Watt
Christmas Parcels Reach Far Arctic Posts by Air and Radio
In the Canadian northwest territories remote settlements like Adkavik and Coppermine await Christmas deliveries. Parcels and provisions travel by air from Edmonton and Port Radium while radio remains a magic conduit to civilization for Arctic residents each Yuletide.
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Edmondton
Alberta
Canadian
Northwest Territories
Adkavik
Edmonton
Coppermine
Coronation Air
Marlowe Kennedy
Port Radium
Great Bear Lake
Arctic
Civilization
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England
France
Holland
Paulinus
Sabinianus
Philadelphia
Feady
Turkey
Spain
University of Chicago
John D. Rockefeller Jr
Kamiel LeFevere
Massachusetts
Missouri
Florida
Texas
Atlantic Coast
Gulf Region
Louisiana
Europe
Santa
Mickey Fi
GAN
Indiana Hills
Abraham Lincoln
James F. Martin
Treetickey Onn
Kearney Tras
Finn
Mechester
Ilchester
Noreman
James Martin
Oscar Phillips
Merry Christmas
Daniel Reeves
Inc
Michael McHale
Main Street
Irvington, N. Y
Derry Christma
Karl Thiele Bakery
Cnnen
Avington
Liberty Food Stores
Vington
Avington, N. Y
Ting
Irvington Pharmacy
George L. Wagner
Tel
Irvington
Irvington, N.Y
Duncan G. Smith
South Broadway
N.Y
Irvington National Bank and Trust Company
Henry Bing
North Cottenet Street
GEGS
Irvington, N
John Kuhn
Heer
William A. Murphy
Grand Union
Joseph Nilan
Avery Gay Christi
Forr
Carl von Schenck
Nick Tagliamonte
Tonsorial Parlor
ECE
Indiana Commony
St. Netty Sands
Kathrine Edelman
Tours
Ethelred
Germy
Mainz
Norway
Hakon the Good
Cauht
U.S
Holy Land
Beth Schem
Minnesota
North Woods
Jesus
Keene
N. H
Gristede Bros
Matthew J. Murtha
Qeeey
Katharine Dillingham
Hair and Beauty Culture
South Dutcher Street
Resis Ems SE
Pan
Irvington Beauty Salon
Aigton, N.Y
Benjamin Lewis
N. Y
Recoer
Lockwood & Pateman Coal
Fuel Oil and Lumber
River Street
H. H. Cannon
Barney Reilly
Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company
North Broadway
Etree
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