Plum Pudding and Sauces From a Historic Recipe
A pasted recipe segment details making plum pudding with beef kidney suet currants and brandy, plus a separate brandy sauce, a boilable water bath method, and a cranberry apple sauce method. It includes step by step cloth prep, boiling times, and serving tips with notes for alternative brandy free sauce and goose accompaniments. The text preserves period cooking terms and measurements, reflecting early 20th century home kitchen guidance.
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Chen
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Presents For Men From Everyday Silverware To Wares
The list highlights gifts for men including toilet jars talcum cold cream silver mounted brushes combs clothes brushes whisk brooms and shaving brushes. Bath robes, heavy silk mufflers embroidered suspenders white silk linen or silk handkerchiefs and chest protectors are suggested as Christmas time gifts. Also listed are Japanese masks swords bayonets oriental panel decor, a wastebasket and a new corkscrew with a horny top silver trimmed as possible presents.
Yuletide Humor and Christmas Wit From The New York Journal
A playful roundup of holiday quips and dialogues among fictional characters and patrons. It mixes snippets about gifts, theater props, mistletoe irony, and seasonal puns, ending with a trite verse celebrating Christmas cheer and reconciliation across the country.
Christmas in Germany and its festive treats
The piece contrasts German Christmas shops and toys with American candy, noting the vast spread of 'oftefferktuchen' as the great Christmas delicacy. It recalls a Christmas visit to Baron von Scierbrant, where drawing rooms were shut prior to Christmas Eve. The eve dinner features skarp fen in bier and concealed cakes, ending with a communal blessing.
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Quay
Germany
France
England
Baron von Scierbrant
A Juvenile Impression
A thoughtful juvenile says he will be glad as a grown man to receive Christmas presents without needing to be good beforehand. The Washington Star reports the humorous remark reflecting a child's candor about rewards and behavior.
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Washington Star
The Holly and Yuletide Ballads by Andrew Lang
A verse excerpt from Ballads of Yule describing Christmas scenes and merriment. It references Santa Claus, holly, and children as the season’s joyful core, with light humor about family and tradition.
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Yule
Maude
Molly
Santa Claus
The First Christmas Gospel Passage Luke II 1 20
The excerpt recounts the nativity story from Luke Chapter II with Mary and Joseph in Bethlehem, the birth of Jesus, the manger, angels announcing good news to shepherds, their visit, and the shepherds' praise of God. The passage closes with Mary treasuring these events in her heart and the shepherds returning glorifying God.
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David
Christ the Lord
Bethlehem
Mary
Joseph
Mistletoe Lore From Druids to Christmas Customs
A Cincinnati Enquirer note recalls druidic mistletoe rites with gold sickle harvest, bull sacrifices, and healing potions, contrasting early Christian cautions. It describes private home display, the kissing tradition under the hanging branch, and the belief the plant once tied to Eden’s forbidden tree.
Christmas Programs At Presbyterian Church
The Sun day School promises one of its best Christmas programs with a cantata The Story of the Star and a full schedule of revival and prayer meetings. Plans list sermons, services, and extensive musical offerings led by Mrs. Cook and Prof. Salisbury, plus Watch Meetings and Epworth League events. The church invites all, notes robust Sabbath attendance, and urges secret prayer to bless the season.
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Epworth League
A. E. Cook
L. D. Salisbury
Griffith
Parewell
the Ledger
Sernon
Nicodemus
King’s
Presbyterian Church
Christ
Lodge No. 267 Installation of Officers
Lodge No. 267 will install officers on Tuesday evening January 6. All members are asked to be present. Cy Graves NYG reports the event.
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M. G. Bentley
God
Cy. Graves
NYG
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