The Night After Christmas and Cindy's Discovery
A fragmented piece from a 19th century paper follows a Christmas night tale where Santa and two young Santas confront mischief and generosity. It shifts to a rural family scene with Mammy Kershaw aiding in Christmas preparations and children uncovering hidden gifts, facing consequences and later cherishing a discovered fifty dollar bill.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mammy
Tobe
Dolla
Cindy
Jatumy
Gundy
Suller
Moammy
Nan Pettibone
Maxomy
The Sun Dance Procession of the Blackfeet
Harper's Weekly describes the sun dance among the Blackfeet as a summer rite lasting three to four days with pre dance beating of drums and nocturnal dancing. Aspirants fast and undergo chest incisions by medicine men, then attach ropes to a tall pole and begin the ritual dance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Theody
Sind Tach
Harper's Weekly
Queer Mexican burials and the haunted Guanajuato vaults
Edward Byron Lovather details Guanajuato burial customs in a grim tale of the Panteon vaults. A sexton guides a descent into a cavern stacked with skulls and mummies, where 40,000 remains, many from pox sufferers, line the walls and piles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward Byron Lovather
Guanajuato
Sexton
Los Muertos
Terra Firma
Walla
Wall
Mummies and burial rites observed in aguas calientes cemetery
In the city of Aguas Calientes I witnessed rapid burials in a consecrated earth yard then exhumations for reinterment outside the graveyard. An infant was laid in a flowered table coffin amid open graves, followed by burials without coffins and a mourner who lit cigarettes and wailed over the fresh graves.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Aguas Calientes
Mary at the Inn from Yont's Companion
A poetic Christmas scene retells Mary and Joseph seeking shelter in Bethlehem. Strangers arrive at night as the inn doors close, and the nativity unfolds with angels announcing the birth of Christ to shepherds amid sacred imagery and timeless longing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary
Yont
Kodfat
Zion
Olivet
Anil
Gallen
Monb
Bethehem
Nazareth
Galilee
Bethlehem
Mother of
the Lord
Christmas Eve in a New England Streets Tale
On Christmas Eve, an irritable old Bishop David Brewer scorns charity as a girl hawks five cent herb bunches. He trudges to his cold home, muttering about “nonsense” and Christmas while a destitute widow pleads for rent money and notes the hardship of paying the month’s eight dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mammy Kershaw
Mammy
Squire Beam
Big Hon
M Mighty
Jammy Kershaw
Weebber
Jess
Man Pettibone
Webber
Kwineter
Sary
Tobe
Cindy
Dunio
Santa Claus
Dorit
Toby
Mamany
Cidy
Amy
Mummy
Miss Beam
David Brewer
Mr. Brewer
The Chinese Quarter in New York City described
Harper’s Weekly portrays New York’s Chinese quarter as a dense, mixed district near Chatham Square. It notes a crowded, often squalid neighborhood with temples, gambling dens, opium houses, laundries, restaurants, and banks, centered around Matt and Pell streets, reflecting a self contained immigrant community and its social life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Fifth Avenue
America
Matt and
Pell
Chatham Square
The Christmas Gift That Tests a Greedy Old Man
An elderly man clings to wealth and selfishness until a plea from a poor Irish woman and a plan to help a sick child prompt reflection. After a single act of charity he slips a ten dollar note to the door, seeking reconciliation before Christmas and judgment.
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Santa Clause
St. Nick
USA
Kria Kringlea
Mel Haven
Santa Anus
Christarus
Mexico
Bethleboru
Jericho
Herbron
Jordan
Hermon
Civiue
Enna Dian Proctor
Childer
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