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Newspaper
Linton Daily Citizen
Location
Linton, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1967
Page
10
The piece traces holiday dining from Europe's medieval boar’s head and English Christmas birds to breads, Christ-bread cakes, mince pies, plum pudding, and festive drinks. It notes origins in English and Eastern European customs and explains wassail as a Saxon greeting-turned beverage tradition.
UPI reports East German authorities restrict Christmas gift parcels from West Germany. Rules include breaking vacuum seals, avoiding two of anything, and excluding medicines, money, stamps, records, films, calendars, and political books. Packages should be plain wrapped, address handwritten, single recipient per parcel, with no dual deliveries, and no letters.
In Communist Czechoslovakia Christmas has regained its traditional character. Festivities start on golden Sunday with last Advent shopping. December 24 is a workday but homes rush to tree decorating. Prague sold over 200000 trees last Christmas. Child Jesus brings gifts. rural carols and old customs endure.
The article traces holiday greens from wreaths and mistletoe to Christmas trees and holly. It notes pagan associations with music and protection, legends of the first Christmas tree, and symbolic meanings of ivy, laurel, yew, and Cyprus in ancient myth and Christian symbolism.
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