Christmas reflections and a living Sequoia holiday display
The piece blends a sermon on the Three Wise Men and the Fourth Wise Man with calls to Christian charity and civic duty at Christmas. It notes Yosemite National Park's year round celebration, a living 60 foot Sequoia Christmas tree planted in 1890, and a playful essay on mince pies and holiday cooking traditions.
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Yosemite National Park
California
Rocky Mountain National Park
Colorado
Mount Rainier National Park
Washington
Yosemite
Santa Claus
Sequoia
Yosemite National Parks
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Congress
United States of America
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Fear and intrigue among Central American rulers
The article recounts a tale from This World of Ours about Honduras’s president fearing assassination during a Tegucigalpa banquet when the lights went out. A U.S. consul allegedly urged calm, while guards armed with revolvers crowded the room. It also traces the origin of libraries from ancient times to Aristotle and the Athenians.
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Honduras
H. Curle
Mr. Curle
Tegucigalpa
United States
The Kitchen Cabinet as a Gentle Office for Women
The Kitchen Cabinet is praised as a good office that makes life pleasant, largely run by women. It stresses service to others rather than self interest, aligning with the motto Women for women or Every woman for herself.
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Irving
Edward Sanford MartlIn
Home Made Candies and Date Cakes From Old Recipes
A collection of practical street pantry sweets including Peanut Candy with brown sugar and peanuts, Maple Pralines with maple sugar and egg white, Maple Fudge with brown sugar milk and mapleine, Grace Chestnuts simmered with brown sugar and vanilla, and Date Cakes with chopped dates and spiced batter baked in gem pans.
No title in the record reflects friendship’s hidden law
Randolph S. Bourne argues that friendship seems chosen by a hidden law of sympathy rather than conscious choice. The piece reflects on how curiously our friends appear to select us just as much as we select them.
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Randolph S. Bourne
Christmas cookie and cake recipes for holiday baking
Simple holiday baking notes describe Christmas Peppernuts Springerlie Fruitina Cookies and Bohemian Christmas Cakes. Recipes use brown sugar eggs nutmeg cinnamon nuts milk lemon extract and almonds with flour to create rolls fillings and small cakes baked in a moderate oven.
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Springerlie
Ear size varies with race and culture
The article notes that the smallest ears occur among Latin races but warns that ear size cannot determine intellect or morality. It contrasts the ear shape of what it calls savage races with that of a cultured white man, pointing to differences in convolutions and angles.
Chinese Proverb on luck and wealth
A traditional saying notes that without favorable aid a person cannot grow rich, and without enough food a horse cannot become fat. The proverb links opportunity and nourishment to success.
Rival Claims Echo Dinner Talk in Harrisburg
Governor Sproul spoke at a Harrisburg dinner about rival trade claims and recounted a joking exchange using a Conley Clay story about Uncle Eph and Washington White. The tale riffs on age and memory with exaggerated numbers and a past March reference.
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Sproul
Harrisburg
Calhoun Clay
George Washington White
Eph
Wash White
Cal Clay
Ireland
Red Cross Ball Blue Ad Highlights Snowy Laundry Results
An advertisement extols the satisfaction of clean snowy white clothes achieved with Red Cross Ball Blue, framing the product as the ideal solution after a day of hard work.
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Red Cross Ball
Market Spotlight Underscores Real-World Outcomes
In a measured session traders weighed practical results over grand rhetoric. Analysts cautioned that lofty talk does not compensate for weak demand and thin margins.
Refined Torture Mother and Daughter Exchange Nickels
In a brief barbed dialogue, a mother asks what a nickel is for and Tillie answers to buy candy to flaunt before the unpleasant neighbor girl. The exchange touches on thrift and pride as a collector waits outside the doorstep for the next earnings.
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Tillie
Applied Knowledge May Medicine Aims to Sharpen Eyes
A playful line notes a medicine claimed to make eyes smart with the punchline Ray-Oh requesting it on the head suggesting comic mishearing or advertisement. The fragment hints at a light humorous exchange about health product effects.
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