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Newspaper
Osceola Record
Location
Osceola, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1941
Page
8
A brief history of familiar Christmas carols explains that some were composed in America while others originated abroad. The article notes a colorful origin for many tunes and presents illustrations of several well known songs.
The lines from O Holy Night author Phillips Brooks reflect Bethlehem and Palestine after his Philadelphia rectorate. Lewis Redner, the organist, composed the melody in a dream on Christmas Eve.
The excerpt recalls Longfellow writing the Christmas Day song during the Civil War era. It notes the refrain peace on earth and good will to men as a beacon of hope amid conflict. The passage ties the lyric to historical context and the enduring message of harmony.
The passage notes the Christmas carol It Came Upon the Midnight Clear written in December 1849 by Rev. Edmund Sears. It mentions its previous tune and the 1851 melody by Richard Willis, highlighting American origins and changing musical setting.
The piece notes that the hymn O Come All Ye Faithful has a disputed origin in England around 1800 and was once called the Portuguese Hymn. It explains the Latin source and that its lines do not rhyme due to translation.
The text notes that the first Noel was sung by shepherds in fields on a cold winter night with angels refrains. It claims the tune as a shared folk-song between France and England and references traditional verses sung by shepherds and a refrain by angels.
A frugal DIY Santa costume uses a red dyed night shirt coat or red Mackinaw, white flannel blotched with ink for trim, red golf stockings, heavy boots, a stocking cap, bright mittens, and a scarf. The disguise is so convincing his own mother wouldn’t recognize him.
A festive cake haut glamour greets guests at Christmas banquets. Carve turkey by slicing through the leg joint then separate the leg from the bird. Slice the breast evenly, use a sharp knife, and garnish with turnips. Scoop tender turnip insides, butter, and mix with seasoned beets, reheat, and arrange around the fowl. If pumpkin filling spills, bake partial filling first then add the remainder to avoid burning.
Suggestions to rekindle an old-fashioned Christmas through simple, homemade decorations. Ideas include using yule logs as centerpieces, evergreens, pine cones, and cedar boughs, plus red white and blue twists for a cheerful family celebration.
Annie the gentle chimpanzee at the Philadelphia Zoo enjoyed a pre Christmas party. Her favorite gift was a toy monkey doll and she seemed happy during the celebration.
The 1604 Strasbourg mention marks the first literature reference to a Christmas tree in Germany and suggests the tradition spread from Strasbourg. Queen Victoria’s marriage to Prince Albert popularized the tree in England, influencing later German and English emigrant customs that shaped America’s Christmas tree tradition.
The article outlines proper formality and签署 practices for Christmas cards. It covers signatures in handwritten versus engraved cards, how to title names, order of family signatures, addressing business acquaintances, and guidance for handling uncertainty with taste, noting cards express friendship and small errors are forgivable.
A collection of superstitions links Christmas birth to special powers and fates. Scots say Christmas births grant spirit sight, Spaniards tie Philip II’s gloom to Christmas vision, French peasants claim prophetic babies, Silesian lore divides Christmas infants into lawyers or thieves, and central Europe links sermon time births to yearly deaths. English mothers once ventured a midnight door visit for sick infants, seeking signs from the Christ Child.
The report traces Santa Claus entering homes down the chimney to an old English belief that chimney sweeping at New Year invites good luck.
A Christian Science Monitor meditation urges seeking the true spirit of Christmas through spiritual understanding. It cites Mary Baker Eddy and gospel scenes, noting divine Love and Christ bring health, happiness, and safety, while mortal worries fade under God’s immutable truth.
The state department of industrial relations has started a meat cutting apprenticeship, with headquarters in San Diego. Thirty four youths are enrolled at the San Diego Vocational School and then work in city meat establishments. The program is part of a larger apprenticeship effort with more than 1,000 youths enrolled in plumbing electrical carpentry brick-laying and sheet metal trades.
Receipts at Omaha Monday totaled 11 500 head with demand steady to firm. Prices rose 10 25 cents from last week with choice steers at 13 00 to 13 60 top. fat heifers 13 00. stockers and feeders 15 25 cents higher. corn fed steers 13 00 to 13 50. yearlings 12 00 to 13 00. cows 7 50 to 8 75. cutters around 6 00 to 6 50. stock cattle 7 50 to 12 25. vealers 9 00 to 14 00.
Receipts of hogs at Omaha Monday reached 16 500 head with brisk trading opening about 10 cents higher than Friday. Best butcher weights sold at 11 10, best packing hogs at 11 00, sows from 10 15 to 10 35. Sheep and lambs receipts were 4 500 head with prices up about 20 cents. Feeder lambs rose 25 cents. top at 12 00. Fat lambs ranged 12 00 to 12 25 for fed wooled, natives 11 75 to 12 00, Westerns 11 50 to 11 75, and lighter natives 9 00 to 10 00.
Scientists at Vanderbilt University and Highlands Biological Laboratory studied Triturus viridescens. They implanted adult pituitary tissue into immature red efts from North Carolina, triggering a six day shift back to aquatic life with adult color and tail form.
The article argues against the dying race myth of American Indians. Commissioner John Collier states that Indians are increasing in North America faster than whites, with numbers rising from 237,000 to 361,000 in the U S since 1900 and a hemisphere total near 30 million.
Roy E. Horst petitions the Polk County Nebraska Court for a heirship decree and time of death for Amalia Horst who died intestate April 6 1936. He seeks to establish heirs and the right of descent in the SE% SW% and West 29 acres of NE SW in Section 24 Township 15 Range 3, with two other Horst sons named as heirs. Hearing set January 9 1942 at 10 AM.
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