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Newspaper
Lewiston Daily Teller
Location
Lewiston, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1901
Page
6
A nostalgic Christmas scene unfolds on a farm with frost gleam and singing willows. Children tumble from bed to greet the feast as bells echo and mothers feel gentle rapture at the merry chatter and baby smiles filling the house. Housekeeping.
Philip Bronson, famed for mythical “Bronson's luck,” lies ruined after selling his Big Penny Mine for a mere song. On Christmas Eve in San Francisco Chinatown a chance glimpse of Marvin Belknap, now wealthy, rekindles hope. He confronts despair but she returns, choosing partnership over pity, offering a new start.
Georgie recalls a Chicago Record-Herald feature where Paw narrates how Spain launched exploration while Germany began Santa Claus and Christmas toy making. The tale mixed humor with a witty claim that Germany supplied the cheer and commerce behind Christmas across the world.
Green jokes about the cost of gifts as Brown reveals a great bundle of statements of accounts. Brown explains these are not presents he bought but the ones his wife made him, prompting a tender, sympathetic handshake between the two men.
A woman softly declares her lifelong love to Philip on Christmas day, offering herself as a gift. Philip, moved and wounded, asks if this is how women love as he wraps his arms around her, finding a moment of hope amid hardship and irony in Bronson's luck.
The piece describes Christmas in China as a sun festival tied to the winter solstice. It notes names such as the festival of the Winter Sun and the Tree Spirits and Forest Dragon in locales, and mentions the renewal of ghost papers as a formal merry occasion.
In Mrs Sinclair’s rooms Mary St Quentin encounters Maj Tremain, her former lover, as Hilda Carson and Mr Cresswell mingle with society. The piece hints at a past romance and hints that Tremain’s homecoming may reopen old desires, with Miss St Quentin’s guarded faithfulness shaping the tension.
A female medical student in Vienna, jeered by male colleagues, rushes to class and drops her watch at the professor's feet. A rival male who had despised women retrieves the watch and pockets it, then later returns it with unexpected courtesy, earning disapproval for his prior rudeness.
In a whispered scene a husband confesses bringing three friends to dinner. His wife objects and scolds, insisting she will endure nothing, while he argues the guests should expect little. She retorts about wedding-day coyness and social shows.
Inventor Adolph Brodbeck of Nashville describes a new passenger air car. It uses overhead cables for partial lift and a rear screw to propel, with buoyancy reducing weight on rails. Seats encircle the car interior and officials may restrict edge-hanging by passengers.
The Navajo tribes employ clever methods to trap prairie dogs, including using a mirror at burrow entrances to flush them out and a rain hunt that floods burrows with rainwater. Digging trenches redirects water to drown or surface the animals, yielding large captured quantities for days of feasting.
A child named Faith plays at marriage as a pretend bride, learns the social title shift from Miss to Mrs, and declares she would call a policeman if asked to marry. The anecdote, cited from Harper's Magazine, notes the shift from playful illusion to a mature, cautionary view of marriage.
Nervous householders are urged to try the Vigilant Dragon a brass shelled tortoise like dome gong table bell on spiked legs with a dragon head. When the door is closed spikes touch the floor preventing entry and the bell clapper alarms. By day it rests as a quiet writing desk bell. An odd heritage gift from a rich old uncle.
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