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Newspaper
Leavenworth Echo
Location
Leavenworth, Washington, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1915
Page
3
A festive collage of quotes from Dickens Carlyle Coolidge Lowell Scott Bible Browning Kingsley and others recited as a Christmas acrostic. The piece blends admonitions hope and cheer with lines about blessing and perseverance.
The report surveys electric toys gaining charm this season from trolley cars and toy motors to illuminated doll houses and safe teaching ranges. It cites a fifteen inch electric range with six burners, utensils, and a simple cookbook for children, plus traditional Christmas dishes like Yule doughs and mince pies linked to old customs.
A Christmas toy party fills homes with excitement as children dress as toys or dolls per a host’s guidance. Guests enjoy games, dancing, and themed refreshments with animal and doll motifs, while mothers mount costumes to ensure every participant fits the toy scene.
A family hosts a Nose and Goggles party where guests wear cardboard noses and masks. Each guest receives a numbered card to guess who they are entertaining, then writes names opposite numbers during social mingling for a merry, energy saving evening.
Guests sit to dine as a hostess hides a cord ending in each hand then has them hunt for their supper by winding the cord to reveal a dish. Edible items range from fruit to cake as the table is set and the supper begins with playful winding.
A lively party game uses a clothesline, heavy stockings, holly tied spoons, and rosy apples. Six players dip, carry, and drop apples into stockings with a spoon to win a round and draw for a prize. The game is described as a screaming farce and very jolly.
A set of festive activities for a Christmas afternoon includes a holly hunt with holly leaves, a cranberry race using two bowls and a spoon, cut-up Christmas scene pictures passed around for assembled puzzles, a gift-placing blindfold game on a drawn tree, and small prizes such as blotters and decorated needlebooks.
An abandoned Christmas party game description explains Little Jacky Bingo. A ring forms with one child left out as Little Jacky Bingo. Jacky walks around the ring while players chant and challenge him. Jacky answers and taps players who then exit the ring, continuing until all are behind him.
A playful guide for a Merry Yule party with word collage, hatpin jab game, blindfold tree tying, toy race, Santa portrait drawing, and prize ideas. Each activity aims to entertain guests with simple, cost free or low cost items, using newspaper headlines and plain materials. Prizes include witty sayings books and candy Saint boxes.
Suggestions for keeping children amused indoors include games such as stringing corn with a needle and thread, transcribing a book paragraph backward and forward, and a plate transfer race using fruit and candy. Prizes reward accuracy, speed, and cleverness.
A jolly Christmas game called kitchen kum pany features eight to ten closely acquainted boys and girls. Each boy wears an apron and cooks a pancake while his girl partner instructs without cooking. The best cake earns a prize, followed by candy making and a communal feast of baked treats.
The State of Washington summons John A Bollman Maisie Bollman L Lathrop Jane Doe Lathrop and Frank H Hutchings to appear within sixty days after November 25, 1915 and defend the above entitled action in the matter brought against them.
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