Abbe Constantin Cassock Crisis Delights Christmas Eve
In the French village, Artemon risks improvised dress for the Abbe Constantin performance after the cassock mix up. The cure laments the stage’s intrusion but is won over by art and charity as actors seek a dignified Christmas. A midnight mass follows with Valerie singing and a charity display uplifting the poor community.
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Jeanne
Gelynette
Hotel du Dauphin
Soulaire
M. Lamier
Father Onesime
Hockary
Soulaire Theater
Constantin
Ludovic Halevy
Academie Francaise
M. Artemon
The
Chatelet
Mile Valerie
Brest
Algeria
Bettina
Matthew
Totor
Andi
Dauphin
Miley Jeanne
M. Arternon
M. Hochary
Artemon
Constantins
Wascar
Mademoiselle
Swearne
Mars
Hochary
Pierrot
Meighboring
SI Flochary
Seriorus
Vanes
Satan
Arteman
M. le Cure
M. Sampler
Mile
Valerie
Mme. Hocharay
Jeane
Adam
Lamier
Samaria
Galilee
San Francisco
Christmas Eve Reconciling tale of lost mother and father
A Christmas Eve drama follows Christie and her blind grandfather as they search by the concert hall for Christie's long absent mother. A letter hints she was held by force, and a reunion at St Pauls with the return of Alice reveals a new family hopeful for happiness.
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Christie
Gran'pa
Gran’pa
St. Paul’s
Bran’pa
Jean
G Ran’pa
Sweden
America
New York
Pastor Ludson
Gran
St. Paul's
Flere
Alice
Olof Strassman
St. Paul
Wail From the Old Boy Chicago Record
A brief line from the Chicago Record laments lost appetite and youth, urging a return to the vigor and desire of youth rather than costly gifts for Christmas.
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Chicago
Giving Him a Chance in a Humorous Exchange
A fragment from the Chicago Record presents Harriet and Harry debating a Christmas gift choice with humorous back and forth. The snippet includes options such as a lamp-shade a sofa pillow or new lace curtains reflecting domestic banter.
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Chicago
Harriet
Harry
A Christmas Accident
Florence muses that honesty is best near Christmas and confesses vanity risks. Her friend asks for meaning and they discuss the idea of giving or receiving a costly present and whether the giver believed the price marked on it.
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Florence
Sacred Thorm Tree Blossoms at Christmas in Wells Region
London Mail recounts a six mile northeast climb to a tor crowned by an ancient chapel tower, a town, and abbey ruins. The Glastonbury thorn, linked to St Joseph of Arimathea, blooms only on Christmas Day, grafted from his walking staff after his journey to Britain and Glastonbury.
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Strance
London Mail
Wells
St. Joseph's Chapel
Palestine
Joseph of
Arimathea
St. Philip
Apostle
Britain
St. Joseph
Glastonbury
Joseph
St. Joseph of Arimathea
Frozen Plum Pudding Recipe Tips From Harper’s Bazaar
The article describes a holiday frozen plum pudding with a chocolate cream base. It instructs adding spices, stale fruit cake crumbs, currants, raisins, and brandy during freezing, shaping into a melon or brick, and serving with a cold pudding sauce made from whipped cream and a beaten egg flavored with brandy.
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Harper's Bazar
Mean Trick Ducks In Doctor’s Sock Create Scare
A playful verse recalls a doctor who is sad and mad as a rogue hides a duck in the doctor’s sock. The duck moans quack quack with every touch, sending comic mischief through Chic Times-Herald readers.
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Times-Herald
Pauls Gift and the Little New Year Visit
Paul receives a treasure from grandpa and discovers a newborn baby in the library, a nurse explains the gift. He rushes to share with his mother, then dashes upstairs to announce the New Year baby in the library.
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Paul
Marion Dickinson
Jenkins
Grandpa
Mamma
Nurse
Not a Virtue and Sage Remarks on Crooks
Public Ledger notes a business man deriding Crooks as indefensible yet a “good hearted” apologist calls him industrious. Louisville Courier-Journal reports whisky prices falling and urges planting mint with a looming ice crop. Siam rice exports rise from 217,000 tons ten years ago to 800,000 tons in 1908.
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Public Ledger
Louisville Courier-Journal
Nipper
Siam
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Anne
Paris
Santa Claus
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Fuliittee
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