A Christmas Dream on the Stationary Santa Train
A fragmented story recalls a bygone Santa Claus myth as a traveling group shares a Christmas on a cold train. Cowboys, a drummer, and a cattleman help local children by selecting gifts from a baggage car, ending with a generous gift a father finds meaningful.
Travelers snowbound in Western train share Christmas hope
A group of travelers including a drummer, cowboy, cattleman, and a minister converse in a blocked Western train car. They learn an impoverished mother and her two children will miss Christmas and decide to raise funds to provide a joyful, improvised holiday for the family.
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Usl
Tim
Chirist
Jarson
Crafting Homemade Christmas Candies and Gifts
The piece discusses gifts of fancy boxes and costly confections, notes candy can be safe when eaten in moderation, and offers DIY candy tips. It explains blanching nuts, making peanut candy with molasses or sugar, and lining baskets with waxed paper for attractive presents. It instructs on wrapping and shaping the finished treats for gifting.
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Peo-Pe
Christmas meaning beyond origin and rite
The text argues Christmas matters to most people as a universal day of observance and goodwill, despite debates among theologians and historians about its origins. It highlights the Wise Men’s example and Christ’s teaching on childlike humility, noting poverty and contentment surpass wealth in happiness.
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Christ
The Christmas Girl and Dowager Empress in Russia
A tale of a Georgia holly venture by Mie Cartledge and family plus a portrait of Dowager Empress Marie of Russia. The piece contrasts rural enterprise in December markets with her European influence and shifting loyalties at court.
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Aldtéer
New York
Watian
Mie Cartledge
Georgia
Ache
Lowever
Marie Legmar
Russia
Csar
Christian IX
Denmark
Empres
Dagmar
Europe
Empress Ie
Bismarck
Invasion by Mosquitoes in Alaska's Arctic Frontier
The article describes Alaska's interior beyond the Kuro Line with two seasons winter and summer. Winter is eight months long with temperatures dropping to 0 and sometimes 90 degrees below zero, while summer lasts four months with pleasant but brief warmth. Mosquitoes, black flies, and stinging insects arrive with the first breeze, tormenting residents after a harsh winter and challenging enjoyment of the short season.
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Alaska
Isabel
Era
Maria
To Cultivate Rubber Company Forms in Louisiana
The Los Andes Rubber Lumber and Fruit company of Gautemals and New Orleans plans large scale rubber farming and processing. Officers are all Orlvans men. The firm is incorporated in Louisiana and aims to establish an American factory to manufacture rubber goods, with consigna lands explored in Central America.
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Los Andes Rubber, Lumber and Fruit Company
Gautemals
New Orleans
Central America
Electricity adoption proposed in Naeos Switzerland
The people of Naeos advocate dispensing with all fuels and using electricity for industry and homes. Electricity already powers cooking heating and lighting in many villas, and one of the district's largest bakeries is electrified in a notable way.
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Naeos
Switzerland
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