Christmas Surprises at AXINE Club and Jameson Family Reunion
A Christmas party at AXINE features the Ww bridge club with annual officer elections after a year of community acts from January through December. The Jameson family receives a son’s homecoming via plane, marking a priceless holiday moment amid wealth and devotion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Axine
Ww Bridge Club
Maxine
Stone Boy
Perkins
Mr. Williams
Community Chest
Mexine
Western Newspaper Union
Mrs. Jameson
Richard
Chicago
The French Santa Clauss Dressed Like Hennequin
A fragment notes a French Santa Clauss costume resemblance to Hennequin in an old pantomime with festive pageantry and lighthearted parody.
That Holiday Feeling
A nostalgic 1930 Mary Graham Bonner reflection on Christmas busyness giving way to a warm holiday feeling. The article contrasts fatigue from shopping and cooking with renewed joy, peace, and gratitude for home, friends, and lasting possessions. Western Newspaper Union distributed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary Graham Bonner
The Christmas Vision in a Country Lane
A frosty night tale guides a traveler from a cold lane to a humble stable. A divine light and singing angels lead to a manger scene with Mary and child as cattle glow in shadows. The piece asks how one would feel and remember Christmas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Christ the Lord
Western Newspaper Union
Christmas Present From Eric Delights Lena
Sally and Eric plan a quiet country Christmas with no guests but receive a shock when Eric arrives with Lena his cousin and Christmas present. The couple reacts with tension then embraces the moment as fog and dripping trees frame the late scene.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sally
Eric
Lena
New York
Rric
Western Newspaper Union
The Frost King Visits the Woodfolk for Waletide Gifts
In a timber heart scene the Frost King admires the Christmas fir as woodfolk brave snow to gather Waletide gifts. Barky bee besten and mosses join offerings of honey, nuts, fruit and berries for forest creatures including the bear, deer, chipmunk, grouse, and mouse.
Socrates and the modern market mood
A humorous World Herald column retells a Laurence Plank lecture on Socrates. The piece contrasts Socratic thrift with modern consumerism, joking about a frugal philosopher and imagining his wife Xan Tippe’s complaints. It muses on virtue, happiness, and the allure of possessions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Laurence Plank
First United Unitarian Church
Omaha
Plato
Socrates
Athens
Xantippe
Tippy
Omaha World-Herald
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Harold L.cook
Jennie
Mr. Jameson
Feir
Westurn Newspaper Union
Feng
Pepe Sbe
Mattia
Pacar Me Toomad
Bally
Lena Post
Arthur Gutterman
Timberlands
Frost King
Eth
McKesson
West
Cree & Chaffey
Palm Springs
California
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