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Newspaper
Lamar Register
Location
Lamar, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1902
Page
9
A nostalgic reflection from a Houston Post reader on how Christmas has grown brighter with children. The piece contrasts past simpler holiday magic with present joy as parents watch their own youngsters, noting warmer hearts, brighter eyes, and shared laughter.
The Woman's Home Companion offers safer tree decorating tips. It suggests pruning branches, drilling a spiral holes along the trunk, inserting green-painted supports for candle holders, and placing the Christ-child atop the tree with rubber bands. Ornament ideas include gilt stars, bags of nuts and candy, fruit, popcorn chains, and paper garlands. The piece ends with a note on Christmas etiquette, urging kindness to others.
A playful verse portrays Christmas joy as children glow with gladness and elders share interest as Cupid and Santa Claus preside, suggesting not all treats are shared on the thrice blessed day.
Mrs Dillingham visits Mrs Keedick to learn Freddy Keedick’s Christmas preferences. The talk reveals a philosophy of practical gifts over toys, citing a French clock, a writing desk, vases, and finally a hand pillow as Freddy’s practical presents rather than mere trinkets.
A Detroit Free Press note describes Norwegian Christmas customs to aid birds. Farmers place a wheat sheaf on a high pole for birds to feast on, while children act as Santa's helpers by delivering Christmas joy to the birds.
A column praises the resolve of a man who quits bad habits on New Year’s Day. It defends scornful jokes, urging support for his effort and arguing habit can improve with age and experience. Pity the person who never tries to reform.
A terse exchange unfolds as Mrs. Saurs questions the caller and George de Gent replies that he wants nothing. The brief interaction captures a moment of everyday etiquette in a Chicago Daily News piece.
A 14 year old Marguerite M Hillery signs a reflective poem about bidding farewell to the Old Year. The piece mentions snow, time, childhood emblems, and the New Year arriving with footprints of time, concluding with a farewell to the Old Year as one of the dead years.
A Brooklyn Eagle opinion notes the fleeting nature of New Year resolutions and hopes for a world where promises made on January 1 endure longer, contrasting with the common early-year abandonments and imagining a smoother path toward a near millennium.
A Detroit Free Press item notes Clarissa and Fidelia discussing New Year’s Day and a past anniversary. Clarissa says she is glad the day is over, while Fidelia remarks on a saddening anniversary. Clarence and Clarissa recall a longstanding quarrel about mutual conduct.
Robert Allerton, a lonely young man, adopts a mother and two girls through a church auction of families. He buys a Christmas for the Robbins household, delivering warmth, wardrobe, toys, and love, discovering a yearlong sense of belonging and a new family.
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