Pacific Northwest Tourist Campaign Aims Boost for Region
Herbert Cuthbert led Spokane business leaders in backing a Pacific Northwest Tourist Association plan to attract visitors. The push seeks 50 000 from Washington Oregon and 25 000 from British Columbia for a two year publicity drive highlighting scenery climate and regional attractions.
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Pacific Northwest Tourist Association
Herbert Cuthbert
Victoria
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Spokane
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Cuthbert
Washington
Oregon
British Columbia
California
Waldo G. Paine
Pacific Northwest
Red Cross Stamps Sold to Fight Tuberculosis
Citizens urged to donate Christmas pennies to the Red Cross stamp drive supporting tuberculosis sanitation efforts. Over a million stamps distributed statewide with sales at Carlquist’s Koerner’s Wheeler’s Barclay’s Wheeler’s Art Shop and Day’s Confectionery Store via Kum lux Club volunteers.
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Kumlux Club
Red Cross
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Koerner’s
Wheeler’s
Barclay’s
Wheeler's
Day’s
Belgians' starving children relief drive promotes donations
Citizens are urged to contribute to The Children of America's Fund aiding Belgium's hunger crisis. Readers can leave their name address and amount at The Echo office for forwarding. A separate note praises railroad groups for choosing to resolve disputes without a strike. An Illinois firm donates a box of Wenatchee Valley apples to each employee replacing the traditional turkey gift.
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Belgium
Echo Office
Children of America’s Fund
Wenatchee Valley
Illinois
Christmas In Wall Street a Bank Scraps Cash Bonus Tradition
A historic Wall Street bank abandoned the $250 Christmas bonus for all staff about twenty years ago. Instead, the firm raised base pay by the same amount to end the practice. The result was a smoother year end and no formal Christmas gifting, with raises sometimes aligning to year end as a seasonal token of goodwill.
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Wall Street
Under the Holly Bough and Christmas Superstition Reflections
The excerpt blends a poem by Charles Mackay praising rekindled love beneath the holly bough with a prose note on Christmas superstitions. It notes American settlers lacked European Indian superstitions and mentions German practices about spinning on Christmas nights and Saturday evenings.
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Charles Mackay
United States
Europe
Germany
The Personality Behind the Mask of Jesus
Rev. George B. Van Arsdal of Denver argues that true assessment comes from action not wealth or stature. He links Christmas to Beatitudes urging purity, meekness, mercy, and justice to shape daily life toward peace, rights, and social equity.
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Jesus
Bethlehem
Mars
Earth
George B. van Arsdal
Denver
The Crowded Inn Biblical Parable Dialogue
A devotional fragment depicts a crowded inn refusing shelter and a series of questions about offering hospitality to a stranger a maiden a baby and a savior. The dialogue evokes mercy and the nativity scene attributed to L A Williams.
A Beautiful Tree Fir described as a handsome conifer
The fir tree, prized as a Christmas symbol, is admired for its beauty and symmetry in all life stages. Early upward branches yield to earthward sweeps with age, yet the crown remains youthful. The term fir historically covered pines, later split by botanists into Abies for firs.
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Crafteman
Tiny Christmas Tree Delights An Eight Year Old
A tiny two and a half foot fir tree is set for a doll's Christmas in a living room. Tiny candles tinsel and colored ornaments decorate the miniature display. Dolls are dressed and gifts such as tiny boxes and dolls fill the scene.
Christmas Legend of St Boniface and the Living Tree
Parish Tidings recounts the legend of St Boniface defying Thor worship by striking down the sacred oak and showing the living fir as the sign of a new faith. The tale contrasts sacrifice to Thor with the Christian message of sin and the cross, ending with the living tree crowned toward the stars.
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Thor
Boniface
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Leavenworth Mercantile Co
Leavenworth
Lamb-Davis Lumber Co
Leavenworth, Wash
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