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Newspaper
Panama City Pilot
Location
Panama City, Florida, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1940
Page
4
A simple guide to making a Goody Tree with edible decorations. It covers popcorn strings and balls, surprise nuts with hidden gifts, painted fruit pyramids, decorative cookies with hangable strings, lollipops with bows, candy canes, and foil cornucopias. Emphasizes safety for children and lasting holiday fun.
The article praises the Goodfellow Club as a growing force for Christmas charity. It urges people to be Goodfellows this season by aiding needy families, noting Santa’s uncertain visits to many children and the joy of giving.
An illuminated evergreen or shrub placed near the house enhances Christmas charm and communal spirit. Use safe pre heated cords and avoid over lighting to prevent fuse blows. Limit ornaments and spacing to preserve the tree’s true beauty.
Experts from the National College of Education Evanston outline toy virtues. A good toy is durable, large and simple to avoid eye and muscle strain, easy to clean, safe, and free of sharp edges. It should encourage both individual and group play, while flimsy items foster carelessness and destruction.
The Yule season in ancient Britain began with the Yule log then moved to holly decor, songs, dancing, and feasting on plum pudding and minge pies as tribes marked the pre Christian Christmas season.
A craft guide explains making a Santa face mask from heavy wrapping paper. Use an 18 by 24 inch sheet, sketch features, and paint with red for the hat white for whiskers blue for eyes and pink for cheeks. Outline with black to finish.
Kathleen Norris urges living one day at a time to bring serenity and courage to families and a nation at war. She stresses personal duty to keep homes orderly, free of debt, and to foster optimism, charity, and constructive work as the path to a freer, better future.
Kathleen Norris counsels readers to ignore distant troubles and live one day at a time. She urges concentrating on one’s own home and family to create happiness and perfection in daily life.
William Allen White argues against the idea that democracy must dictatorially mimic a dictatorship during total war. He recalls 1917 mobilization powers, notes limited use of commandeering, and urges congressional consultation on a resolution of stance toward Britain and potential war, warning against hysteria while defending open debate.
Washington reports a trial of a pilotless radio controlled bomber, capable of taking off, dropping bombs on distant targets, and returning to base with the aiming largely by chance but several direct hits achieved. The system relies on fuel and radio range, with long range use via relay stations, and strict espionage warnings accompany the project.
Sunshine bottled in Florida was placed in a luminescent powder within a bottle and frozen in liquid air. The sealed bottle was carried to New York where a glass tube was thawed in water causing the powder to glow and emit heat capable of frying fish.
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