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Newspaper
New Oxford Item
Location
New Oxford, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1907
Page
9
A vintage guide describes a Christmas party game using a large holly decorated tissue paper ball bomb hung from a chandelier. Children pull ribbons to shower gifts as their mothers trigger the signal. It also suggests dress ideas for girls with sheer lawn dresses and flounced skirts and for boys with soft woolen blouses and روسский style outfits.
Little Jacob asks to accompany his father David to watch the sheep by night near Bethlehem. David agrees but says the boy must sleep first as wolves roam from Lebanon. Jacob hides a sling and pebbles, eager to face wolves, while Rachel tends the baby and prepares the water gourd for the night watch.
In a sacred midnight scene, David and Jacob guard sheep beneath a star lit sky. The heavens suddenly blaze with divine light as a great angel appears, delivering a moment of awe and wonder to the shepherds.
The shepherds fear the Day of the Lord but an angel proclaims good news of a Saviour born in David s city. The night fills with heavenly songs as Mary and Joseph cradle the child in a manger and Jacob receives a lasting vision.
Poetic snippet from December Lippincott's recalls Christmas in Alaska and nostalgic fairy tales. Lines joke about frostbitten toes and Santa Claus, with wishes to see mermaids, witches, knights, and princesses in a bygone fantasy era.
A historical extract outlines practical dyspepsia remedies emphasizing lifestyle over drugs. It advises avoiding starches, favoring meats and eggs, staying hydrated with hot water, spacing meals, and thorough chewing. It notes a debate on mouth grinding but affirms chewing as natural necessity.
A collage of maxims from Ovid Longfellow Seneca Amiel Lowell a Kempts Washington Quarles Fenelon Saadi Moody about rest duty forgiveness humility and humility’s fragility These lines counsel restraint mindful living and bearing burdens while valuing inner life and action over vanity.
An American in London notes a bus driver’s joke at a corner. The driver winks at a shop door, explaining it’s a friendly gag because the man’s father was hanged.
The advertisement claims catarrh is a constitutional disease needing internal remedies. It touts Hall's Catarrh Cure as a blood and mucous surface agent prescribed by leading physicians. The claim includes testimonials, Toledo based makers, and 75 cent price. It also promotes Hall's Pills for constipation.
Dr H Albrecht of the Wilhelm Hospital spoke before the Vienna Medical Society stating he discovered the agent causing the coma plaint and asserted that whooping cough bacillus is identical with the influenza bacillus, clarifying long held suspicions of a common bacillus.
Mrs. A. C. Brestlin reports her baby suffered a year with skin itching like eczema. After visits to doctors and colleges produced no relief, Cuticura Soap Ointment and Resolvent Pills were tried. Three boxes of Ointment plus Soap and Pills left the child healthier and markedly improved. Chicago Illinois. October 20 1906.
Chicago Tribune predicts a future where microphones replace writing, with voice photographs reading records of speech. Stenography would vanish as telephone and cable conversations become binding like contracts, and notaries could attest to a speaker’s identity over the wire.
A testimonial promotes Grape-Nuts and Postum as remedies for indigestion and poor health. A laboring Iris man recalls weight gain from using Grape-Nuts, his wife following suit, and a 68 year old neighbor who improved after switching from heavy meat. The ad cites The Road to Wellville and urges readers to try the products.
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