Regina's Outdoor Christmas Tree Becomes Joyful Mission
Regina rivals a missing department store tree by bringing a vacant lot fir to life for her Sunday school class. David Langhorn joins, they light six bonfires and fill a hill with 24 children for a Christmas Eve carol, ending in a prayerful embrace and a message of peace.
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Regina
New York
Tommy
David Langhen
Langhorn
George Washington
Express
David Langhorn
Jove
David
Ernoon
Santa Claus
Tribute to Poem's Author Probed Amid Christmas Eve Remembrance
Hundreds of children gather near the Church of the Intercession in New York to honor Clement C. Moore LL.D. on an eve believed to be the night before Christmas. Hymns may be sung and the poem recited as reverent tribute to the famed Christmas verse amid authorship questions.
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Clement C. Moore, Ll.d
Church of the Intercession
Upper Broadway
New York City
Hudson River
Milo H. Gates
Laboratory method for vanilla flavor uses cloves oil
A lab process can produce vanilla extract from oil of cloves and eugenol or other substances.
The Kitchen Cabinet on Women’s Roles and Community Life
A fragment from the Kitchen Cabinet column discusses social reform and living well through communal effort led by women. It contrasts selfless work with self serving motives and cites Edward Martin on women’s influence in shaping a better life.
Unseen Rules Guide Our Choice Of Friends
Randolph Bourne argues that friendship is guided by a hidden law of sympathy rather than conscious choice. The piece suggests we do not freely select friends but are drawn to certain people by an involuntary affinity. The reflection challenges simple assumptions about voluntary social bonds.
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Randolph S. Bourne
Christmas Cakes and Peppernuts From Old Fashioned Recipes
The excerpt details holiday bake goods including Christmas Peppernuts and Springerlie with steps for mixing flour sugar eggs and spices. It notes preparing early for ripening and describes rolling, cutting, and baking methods with oven temps and ingredient ratios.
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Springerlie
Young man plans future captain of industry in city
A local man, engaged to a Chicago woman, aims to become a captain of industry. He explains he calls her at midnight two nights weekly due to low after midnight rates while claiming late work hours justify the chats. The note mentions humorous quotes and a Red Cross Ball Blue laundry ad.
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Chicago
Washington Star
Baby
Poets Comment on Money and Collectors in Culinary Quip
A witty exchange contrasts pride in a first dollar with fears of debt collectors. The speaker jokes that only poets can turn sausage skewers into soup, implying whimsy over hardship.
Leonardo da Vinci Named America on 1514 Map Claim
The article questions the traditional attribution of naming America to Martin Waldseemüller and presents Professor Harrington's assertion that Leonardo da Vinci labeled the western continent as America on a 1514 map.
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Leonardo
America
Martin Waldseemueller
St. Die
Harrington
Leonardo da Vinci
Women and Conversation: A Social Note
A sharp observation on women's social dynamics notes that true merriment arises only when a small group of four or more women engage in active discussion. The piece captures the lively, overlapping banter characteristic of such gatherings.
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Egina
Christmas
Walters
Western Newspaper Union
SRI Revelis
Lfe
Edward
Mia
Ord Martin
Master Bak
Sun-Maid Raisin Growers
Dept
Fresno
California
Crry
SP & Putnam
Freud
Streud
University of Goettingen
Warr
Lume
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