Christmas Beginnings and Memories Across Faith and Life
A contemplation on Christmas origins from the Bethlehem census to the birth of Jesus, and a reflection on how childhood, family, and home shape faith. It recalls Willa Cather’s Bishop Lamy, Schweitzer’s memories, and the enduring pull of Christmas across cultures.
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Willa Cather
Jean Lamy
Great
Southwest
North America
Santa Fe
Miss Cather
Sante Fe
France
Auvergne
Bishop Lamy
God
Jesus Christ
Albert Schweitzer
Switzerland
New cervical cancer test aims to detect upper womb disease
Reader questions Pap smear limits and a Gravice Jet Washer inspired test by Dr L Clark Gravice of Birmingham Alabama. The memo explains Pap tests detect cervical cancer well but miss upper womb cancers, and describes a new syringe based method to obtain cells from the upper uterus for earlier detection.
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Lamb
L. Clark Gravice
Birmingham
Ala
United States
Investors Must Weigh Future Prospects of Corporations
The piece argues that investors should value future earnings projections, noting SEC policy restricts forecasts while hearings in Washington consider allowing them. Chairman William Casey emphasizes that forecasts may be optional and safeguards are needed to prevent abuse, with calls for even access to projections for all investors to maintain market fairness.
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Caesar Augustus
Joseph
Galilee
Nazareth
Judea
David
Bethlehem
Mary
Washington
SEC
William Casey
State Department
Casey
Uating
Diverse Legends On Christmas Tree Origins And Customs
Diverse legends explain the Christmas tree origin from Eden’s evergreen symbolism to medieval German plays. By 1841 Queen Victoria and Prince Albert displayed a decorated Windsor Castle tree, while earlier ornaments were placed on tables rather than the branches.
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Prince Albert
Queen Victoria
Windsor Castle
Europe
Garden of Eden
Christ
Aviene FE
Cameron Cooke
Origins and legends of the Christmas tree through history
Life was a fir, hung with apples and other ornaments, tracing the tree’s origins from biblical symbols to St Boniface and Martin Luther. Legends connect the pine to light and peace, while Luther’s candle tree popularized electric illumination starting in 1902.
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St. Boniface
Boniface
Christ Child
Martin Luther
Luther
Bethlehem
Europe
America
1902
Christmas furloughs begin for 631 inmates in New York
Inmates from 20 correctional institutions and youth camps started Christmas furloughs today and are due back by Tuesday. Prison events include a Santa Claus toy visit at Wallkill and a Christmas Eve Mass at Green Haven led by Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen.
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Albany
N.Y
Santa Claus
Wallkill
Green Haven
Fulton J. Sheen
Rochester
Wise Men Gifts Birth of Jesus The Nativity drama and Magi gifts explored
The essay reflects on the Magi from Persia or Babylonia and their role in the Nativity narrative. It discusses why gold frankincense and myrrh were given, their meanings, and the implications for Mary Joseph and the child under Herod’s threat.
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Bethlehem
Paul Mater
Herod
Jesus
Persia
Babylonia
Goodspeed
Palestine
Mary
Joseph
Herol
Israel
Egypt
Congress to probe securities industry in 1970s reforms
Capitol Hill signals a broad inquiry into stock exchanges profits investment methods and brokerage practices with new laws under review. The analysis shows wide direct and indirect stock ownership across the US and notes potential impacts on middle and lower income households.
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Washington
NEA
Capitol Hill
New York Stock Exchange
United States
House Committee On Interstate and Foreign Commerce
Securities Investor Protective Corporation
SIPC
Word origins and Nevada bristle pine noted
A brief note explains the term motel as a motor hotel. It also cites the bristle pine in Nevada as possibly the world s oldest tree at about 4900 years.
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Nevada
Lamp symbol of nursing and Florence Nightingale
The lamp represents nursing as Florence Nightingale carried a lamp during nightly patient visits. The set notes the tsetse fly transmits sleeping sickness parasites found in Africa and confirms the US Patent Office issues patents on plant life, stating more than three thousand issued.
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Florence Nightingale
Africa
U. S. Patent Office
Separation of Church and State and Congress
Neither house of Congress begins proceedings without prayer, showing the separation does not bar religious invocation in legislative sessions.
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Congress
Palladium Times Oswego Postal Notice and Rates
The Palladium Times, Oswego New York, details post office status as Second Class Mail, consolidation of Oswego Palladium and Oswego Times, publisher Clark Morrison III, and annual carrier rates. It lists subscription prices by region and term, plus advertising representatives and Associated Press notice.
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Oswego, N. Y
Oswego Palladium
Oswego Times
Clark Morrison
Oswego
Wayne
Northern Cayuga Co
Wessel
Thomson Newspapers, Inc
Des Plaines Ave
Des Pigines
Ill
Rockefeller Plaza
New York
N. Y
Associated Bess
Palladium Times
Associated Press
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Lawrence E. Lamb
DR. Lamb
Berhy's
Business Mirror
Securities and Exchange Commission
By Roger Bollen
O. A. Battista
Yardley
Christ's Manger
David Poling
Ray Cromley
the Palladium-Times
West First St
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