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Newspaper
Macgregor Herald
Location
Macgregor, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Dec 23, 1948
Page
6
Penny in the city shuns crowds at Dayton Circle on New Year’s Eve preferring to stay home. She worries about slipping into city life and clings to her sensible, practical image while Ruby’s romance chatter highlights her own inner emptiness.
Penny Lindsay wanders the street in a new town when a bus swerves by and she slips on ice, crying as a stranger named Alan, a former school friend, kneels to help. He expresses loneliness and invites her to an evening out, rekindling a connection from their old hometown.
Alan asks Penn to talk over old times despite the ghastly weather as Tim dies to hear gossip about the Turners the Mitchells and others. Penny agrees, smiling, ready to reminisce with Alan.
The article recalls the Advent stir up ritual in Peterborough and explains frumenty as the forerunner of plum pudding. It describes frumenty as wheat boiled until grains burst then boiled again with broth or milk and egg yolks, a dish once indispensable to Christmas celebrations.
Hyde Park New York on the Roosevelt estate hosts about 270 000 trees primarily Norway and white spruces and Douglas fir on scattered plots. The project began as a hobby of Franklin D Roosevelt and pays its own way selling 2000 to 3000 trees each Christmas season.
Forecasting is ritualized in Switzerland. Grandma halves an onion and peels twelve layers to predict the year ahead. The daughter tours nine fountains at midnight then visits a church to seek her unknown lover on the steps.
Manitoba Fire Commissioner H E Putte warns that using low flash point oils and improvised oil burners causes fires especially in rural areas. Oils below 110 degrees flash point are illegal and selling or delivering them violates the Fires Prevention Act. He urges only approved oils and licensed servicing, noting rural garages have used homemade devices and crankcase oil.
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