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Newspaper
Kings Mountain Herald
Location
Kings Mountain, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1952
Page
5
Mrs Gene Mitchem hosted a Queen of Clubs event on Thursday night with a Christmas theme. Decorations including a tree wrapped gifts wreaths and scenes filled the home while guests enjoyed fruit cake hot chocolate and marshmallows before bridge games and prize awards to Mrs David Neill and Mrs Jimmie Slevy.
Mrs Harold Crawford, Mrs Wilson Crawford, and Mrs Yates Harbinson hosted a series of Christmas gatherings at Harold Crawfords home. Festive rock games, progressions, and bridge featured amid holly, lights, and scenes of angels. Prizes awarded to top scorers. offerings sent to a missionary. Food included star shaped treats and a dessert of apple cake with whipped cream.
The piece describes toys from many lands appearing in Christmas celebrations with Europe and the United States as leading toy makers. It notes German and Danish innovations, US exports, and a range of global influences seen in Christmas toys. It includes historical figures and quotes on Christ and civilization.
The National Geographic Society reports a record barracuda weighing 103 percent of a pound as the largest ever taken with rod and reef gear. Typical specimens in tropical and semi tropical Atlantic waters average around 15 pounds.
The Sophia Nickels Circle of the First Baptist Church met Tuesday night with Mrs J C Spivey. A very interesting Christmas program or discussion was held as part of the gathering.
The great hall of a Saxon lord hosts a democratic Christmas gathering for peasants and nobles with gifts, feasting, dancing, and singing. The Yule Log is burned in a communal fire as festivities run to the last ember. In the South before the Civil War slaves soaked a log in cypress swamps to extend Christmas freedom.
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