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Newspaper
Oshkosh Record
Location
Oshkosh, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1887
Page
3
An excerpt portrays a tattered Christmas stocking complaining of its wear and tears. The spoiled misshapen stocking laments holes in its seam, a torn tail, a burst drum, and a juncture near departure from home. The narrator fears being discarded into a rag-man’s cart with a mixed company tomorrow.
In a melodramatic tale set at New Year, Doris defies her guardian Doctor Blake by pursuing a hoped for marriage with his painter nephew Paul. After Doris and Paul’s plans unravel, Blake learns Doris will wed him instead, leaving Mrs. Mack thwarted. The story ends with Doris and Blake marrying in Portland and a reconciled, playful future.
Fragmentary diary excerpt recounts Charles Thomson recording the opening minutes of the Continental Congress in Philadelphia. It notes Peyton Randolph elected President, Thomson's formal seating, and his early sober service to the Confederation Congress, plus a tangential anecdote about a family Christmas purchase and a Greek Bible translation.
A narrator recalls a December visit to a poverty-stricken home where a little girl Bessie befriends Nellie, the neglected child with her lost dog Fido. Nellie finds comfort, charity, and a new family through Bessie and her father, culminating in Nellie’s reveal as the sister of the narrator’s husband. Santa Claus, gifts, and a Christmas day together forge a hopeful bond.
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