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New Oxford Item

Location

New Oxford, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Date

Dec 30, 1920

Page

2

Hillions for a New Stomach Hillions for a New Stomach

An advertisement touts Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery as a cure for stomach issues and digestion. It claims wealth cannot buy happiness without health and promotes a herbal tonic from Buffalo, New York, emphasizing digestion, blood nourishment, and disease prevention.

AML Pierce The Invalids’ Hotel and Surgical Institute Buffalo, N.Y American Publica

Christmas Play Idea From An Old Script

A fragmented OCR passage describes a family friendly Christmas play featuring Santa Claus, children, and parents. It outlines audience involvement, simple disguises, and a playful plot with a sleigh interruption and a happy return, emphasizing costumes such as white whiskers and a fat Santa belly.

Sanitian Kriss Dad Willy Sindery Mich Hive Santa Iit

A Christmas Carol Plea to Bethlehem From Fractured Verse

A broken text offers an archaic Christmas message urging a return to Bethlehem. The speaker pleads for peace and spiritual renewal, invoking angels and the nativity to restore hope and reconcile wandering hearts. The archaic diction resembles a devotional sermon or carol fragment.

Christmas Eve Rite Sparks Widespread Cease of Work

Confused narration describes a Christmas Eve gathering in a village where people stop work as an alleged excuse. A figure named Kolenda is linked to the celebration and to gifts tossed from windows while peasants pretend to be representatives of a lower order.

Kolenda Aes Ile Stable

Make Every Day a Christmas Message in Yearlong Spirit

A plea to preserve Christmas fellowship beyond December urging daily kindness and helping others. The piece quotes Ping Tin and God bless us, everyone, calling for gratitude to those who bless our country and a future where common sense guides the realm.

Carey Ping

Simple Home Made Gifts for Winter Comfort and Cheer

Recipes for handmade gifts include handkerchiefs with embroidery, gloves from denim or canvas, night slippers for stairs, knit muff and scarf edges from fur, a sweater repurposed into a cloak or dress, mittens from wool, and a cheerful caring note to an invalid friend at Christmas.

In For It Drum Rooks and Sacred Day for Babies

Fragmentary text presents garbled phrases about a drummer, rooks, a husky kid, and a sacred day for babies, with disjointed references to Santa Claus St Nicholas and aging saints. The passage mixes names, faith, and unclear actions, lacking coherent events or dates.

Meyer Santa Chis St Nicholas Firess Kaingle Mato Payrhand

A Christmas Wish From Johnny and the Janitor’s Little Boy

A child's Christmas wish centers on being the janitor's polite son, hoping for kindness and a simple, humble role. The exchange hints at family warmth and a gentle, hopeful holiday mood.

Pather Johnny

Yuletide Festivities in Other Lands

Rediscovered Christmas customs from England reveal neighborly hospitality and old rites. An English gentleman hosts a dawn ball with toast cheese and nuts, homes decked with greens, and a Christmas box with wheat rites and log traditions marking the feast.

Boxing Day and Yule Traditions Across Centuries

The article describes Boxing Day gifts to postmen after Christmas and recounts medieval London customs tied to Christmas, feasting, and bonfires. It notes Scandinavian Yule traditions with logs, wassail, and celebrations linked to Thor and Odin, highlighting enduring holiday rituals.

Henry T London

Christmas Eve Customs Across Europe and Russia

The article describes Christmas Eve traditions from Russia to Sweden and Norway, noting masquerades in Russia, animal processions in Bulgarian and German lore, and the thirteen day Yule period in Nordic communities. It highlights the preparation in homes with cleansed houses juniper and fir leaves, then festive bakehouse gatherings.

Sweden Norway

Surprising Christmas Eve Customs Abroad

The text describes holiday practices in Holland Switzerland and Serbia. Beasts speak in stalls, a mortal danger to eavesdroppers, and a holy day sensation. Serbia marks Christmas Eve with tree selection and ritual washing, while youths parade in masks stars and wooden swords asking for village merriment.

Holland Switserland Serbia

Doctors Boost Colds With Calotaba Liver Activation

Doctors advise Calotaba tablets as the first step in treating colds and flu, claiming an active liver improves medicine effectiveness. A single Calotaba tablet at bedtime is said to purge symptoms by morning with no nausea or loss of appetite, priced at thirty five cents with a money back guarantee.

G. P. Hicks

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