Marion Kay's Christmas Gift
Marion slips lace caps in a store and is mistaken for a shoplifter but a shopman clears her. James Dalton from Boyce & Dalton offers a fair exchange for the caps after learning her reasons. He invites her to Christmas dinner and a theater outing, and she finds a trusted ally and potential romance in him.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marion
Lynx Efed
Miss ‘Kins
Kay
Marlon
James Dalton
Boyce & Dalton’s
Dalton
Miss Perkins
Mother
Europe
Marton
When the good old saint comes again in Newark
The Newark Evening Mail presents a nostalgic Yuletide verse celebrating Saint Nicholas. It invites women and men to greet the old saint with welcoming cheer, lights, and homey merriment, recalling childhood joy and shared warmth of holiday season.
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Cohen
Newark
Christmas Superstitions and Midnight Miracles
A survey of long held Christmas beliefs recalls oxen kneeling in stairways to adore the Nativity and speaking for an hour, rested spirits, and the myths of Judas and Herod, Pilate, and the sighting of future visions for sleepers in a manger.
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Judas
Herod
Herodias
Pilate
Mount Pilatus
Etiquette of Gift Giving
Advice from Ladies Home Journal on giving and receiving gifts. Focuses on not showing excess cost, adding personal messages on gift cards, neat wrapping, and timely delivery. Encourages thoughtfulness over ostentation and warns against tardy gifts as afterthoughts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ladies’. Home Journal
A Yuletide Donkey Party Christmas Tree Game
A Christmas Game describes a party activity where players pin rosettes on a tree design. Blindfolded players attempt to place rosettes near numbers, three trials per person, tallying the three nearest numbers. The highest sum wins the first prize.
Christmas in Dixie Poem by Silas X Floyd in Leslie's Weekly
The poem portrays a darkey Christmas in the American South with mock equality and racial stereotypes. It laments law and order as ineffective and imagines joyous celebrations by both races, ending with the claim that all are free but divided by color and custom.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chris
Dixie
Silas X. Floyd
Leslie's Weekly
A Merry Christmas Jest and First Christmas Observance
An old chronicle recalls a Christmas dinner where a knight requires a carol from the master of the house before all drink, then from the mistress at the women’s table, ending in merriment and a pie joke. It also notes Christmas origins with Pope Telesphorus and the 25 December nativity date.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Christ
Telesphorus
Christmas Candle and Tree Obsolete in England
The article notes the Christmas candle lit by Irish peasants on Old Christmas Day is largely obsolete in England. A remaining relic is a lamb carved stone socket in St John’s Coleford battery used to hold the candle. It adds that the Christmas tree was little known in England until about fifty years ago.
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England
St. John's Cole Ford
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Marion Kay
Willis B. Allen
St.nicholas
Long Branch
Jacob Steinbach
Tlong
Womens’ Suit & Coat
Cook’s
Asbury Park, N. J
Teme
J. Black
Bone
Broadway
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