Jest Before Christmas Yeugen Field Poem
A humorous poem where Willie narrates a boy’s mischievous year and insistence on being good only “jest ’fore Christmas.” He lists antics with a dog, sled, and grocer’s whip, contrasts boyish pranks with family hopes, and ends urging proper conduct before holiday gifts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William
Will
Willie
Bill
Fauntleroy
Sport
Granmar
Dan
Ceylon
Daniel Boone
Buff
Christ
Spencer and Point Gossip and a Local Wedding
A Spencer caller list includes Mrs C D Hinckley and others from Stevens Point. A A Damon sits on a jury. J K Hayward attends a Masonic meeting in Marshfield. several locals visit relatives. Louise Wellnetz and George Schwantes wed at a Lutheran church with Rev Sehmide officiating. wedding party rejoins family in Brigton for celebrations. Royal Neighbors install officers led by Oracle Leah Graves and others. An ad promotes Talli’s Catatrab Cure by F J Cheney Co Toledo as a constitutional remedy for catarrh with a money back guarantee. Druggists supply 75 cents. Hall's Family Pills advised for constipation. Gold Medal Flour and other brands named.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louise Wellnetz
George Schwantes
Lutheran Church
Sehmide
Brigton
Tlali
F. J. Cheney & Co
Toledo
Ohio
F.J. Coenry &Co
Hall
Christmas in Bethlehem A Picture of Pilgrim Festivities
Bethlehem during Christmas attracts a cosmopolitan throng of pilgrims from around the world. Visitors fill the Church of the Nativity and the shrine beneath it, where the manger site draws crowds eager to kiss the marble slab, with monks guiding reverent processions through the ancient church.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bethlehem
Mecca
India
Bethlehem Greets Christmas in the Grotto of Nativity
The Philadelphia Record describes Bethlehem’s Church of the Nativity grotto where pilgrims kneel before the Madonna and Child amid singing priests and fragrant censers. The weeklong festival draws strangers who bring generous offerings, filling tents and convents with wealth and festive commerce.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gulem
Christ
Manger
Melchior
Caspar
Balthazar
Joseph
Church of the Nativity
Grotto
Bethlehem
Philadelphia Record
Born on Christmas Day Famous people born on December 25
The article notes Clara Burton founder of the Red Cross and other figures born on or near Christmas Day in various years. It cites Lord John Morley born December 24 1838 and mentions King George I of Greece born December 25 three years later with several other notable lives linked to Christmas dates. It also lists casualties and survivors from a Titanic wreck era connection and mentions figures hurt on December 26 around Christmastime.
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Clara Burton
The
Red Cross
Lord John Morler
Taan
Gladstone
India
Asquith
George I
Greece
Marcus Beresford
Grey Fxerton
Countess of Lothes
Christus
George Dewey
Earl of Leicester
James Tinton
Duchess of Leeds
James Rankin
James D. Stephens
California
Christmas With The Toilers Of The Sea
A San Francisco Call reflection on seafaring Christmas, detailing pilots on fogbound ships, lure of dinner ashore versus duty at sea, the peril and camaraderie of holiday at sea, and the stubborn pull of home despite the gale and watch bells.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Turkey
Srn
San Francisco
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Yeugene
Spencer
C. D. Hinckley
Stevens Point
A. A. Damon
Wausau
J. K. Hayward
Marshfield
Kolzta
Milladore
Suonday
F. A. Soles
George Stadtmitler of
Colby
Spencer Friends
C. E. Urbans
Rose Tardif
Leah Graves
Rispa Crowell
Carrie Damon
Carrie Reas
Lilly Farrington
Kestel Brothers Company
Maneet
Etrlemem
Marshfield State Bank
Wisconsin
Normington
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