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Newspaper
Mathews Journal
Location
Mathews, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 17, 1908
Page
1
A garbled holiday menu lists dishes such as Oyster Relish and Boiled Trout with Caper Sauce, Roast Google with Apple Sauce, Warhed Potatoes, Creamed Carroty, Shrimp Salad, Orange Sherbet, Celery, Christmas Pudding, Coffee, Crackers and Chest Nuts and Raisin. The reading blends several recognizable items with errors, yielding a quirky, period flavor of a Christmas banquet list.
A playful recipe verse invites children to join a merry band of cooks. It guides them to gather oats butter eggs and sugar then mix beat and bake to create oatmeal macaroons with cheerful rhythmic steps.
A lyrical reminiscence recalls a twilight Christmas past with a cottage hearth, evergreen wreaths, stockings, and children’s faces. The poet imagines Santa, mothers bustling in a warm kitchen, and pumpkins and mince pies, while near at hand a beloved son remains in memory.
The article surveys how children in Germany Belgium Holland Bohemia Italy Spain France Austria respond to St Nicholas and the Christ Child. It describes Knecht Ruppert the Christ Child gifts and the seasonal rituals including shoes filled with treats, gingerbread images, and festive processions across nations.
A series of craft ideas for holiday presents created by young makers. Included are a circus rug with appliqued circus designs, a sliding and skating sail with pine runners and canvas sails, a slipper needle book with padded soles and ribbon bow, and a croquet inkstand from a split croquet ball. Stories credit Helen Trew, Macon GA. Raymond Morrison, Erle CO. Hazel Hope, Jonesboro GA. Harold Jackson, New York.
The African peanut is less delicate as food yet yields more oil and is easier to crush than the American variety.
A collage of humorous exchanges from era papers features quick retorts, character sketches, and social satire. Jokes range from marriage talk and money woes to school and needlework quips, with voices attributed to Puck, Philadelphia papers, and Harper’s Bazar.
In Portsmouth a Police Court judge heard Miss Alice Spinney claim Henry M. Tucker offered a kiss as payment for shoes. Tucker called it a legitimate bargain and Spinney testified she intended to kiss. the judge reserved decision.
A traveler recalls India's census in Allahabad listing odd job labels such as threats of violence men, flatterers for gain, hereditary thieves, howlers at funerals, ear cleaners, crown makers for idols, hereditary painters of spotted horses, and professional false witnesses. The note contrasts with New York’s prominence as a manufacturing city with about 9,000 factories.
A digest lists Taft’s height and alcohol abstinence during his campaign, the Austria-Hungary jubilee for Francis Joseph, Senator Milton’s image, Roosevelt’s reassurance, a German diary plan, a schooner master lost at sea, MIT’s Maclaurin, Professor Starr’s Japan study, Taft’s wine abstention, Haeckel’s retirement, and an Edinburgh firm’s tea invention after twenty years of work.
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