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Newspaper
Monmouth Herald
Location
Monmouth, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Dec 17, 1920
Page
3
A garlanded toy tree table centerpiece with 107 items and red ribbon hints at festive display wreathed in rhymes. The text also muses on a placid golf bag, ducks as fowl substitutions, fried celery with duck, and a hot spiced cider drink to accompany a heavy dinner.
The Glastonbury thorn at Glastonbury Abbey in Somerset, linked to Joseph of Arimathea, reportedly blossomed at Christmas after his staff struck the earth. In Elizabethan times a Puritan cut one trunk, a miracle spared the tree, and the rest was grubbed up leaving smaller trees in the region.
In the Midwest the Norway spruce is less common than the short needle pine found in Northern Michigan and Wisconsin woods. Indians near lumber camps cut these trees in autumn and by November a fleet transports them down Lake Michigan, each ship bearing a Christmas tree as a sign of its precious cargo.
A lament on how the season exposes the contrast between wealth and need. The piece notes charity dinners as a small relief while the Salvation Army on street corners collects for Christmas baskets, highlighting the social wreckage of prosperity.
Selden the antiquary explains that Christmas pies were once baked in a coffin shaped crust to symbolize the cradle or manger where Jesus lay. The article notes a tradition tying pie design to nativity symbolism.
The piece urges Christmas giving with lasting value. It suggests gifting an income paying investment in Mountain States Power Company as a practical lesson in finance, thrift, and responsible money handling, promoting self control and education.
Young readers receive a pitch for The Open Road magazine with noted contributors and a Cal vot e letter praising honest effort. The page also lists numerous farm and livestock sales and land bargains in Monmouth and nearby towns alongside notices of estate administration and a final accounting hearing set for January 17, 1921 in Polk County Oregon.
A reader describes substituting a barrel for a Christmas tree made from evergreen sprigs and holly. The barrel will hold gifts wrapped in red tissue, with a jolly Santa Claus figure. the plan aims for festive decoration without a traditional tree. An unrelated bank notice follows about a 1921 annual meeting of First National Bank of Monmouth directors and business.
A 30 page illustrated Forbes booklet profiles six of America's richest men with personal character analysis. Limited copies are being distributed free. interested readers should mail the coupon with name and address.
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