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Newspaper
Paris Post
Location
Paris, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1951
Page
2
A practical guide urges including every family member in Christmas prep. From choosing a tree to decorating the home and staging a bedside tree for sick relatives, the plan emphasizes joint projects, gifts, entertainment, and a final reflection exercise on “What Christmas Means to Me.”
The article notes Santa’s age as 88 years old this Christmas. It traces origins to St Nicholas and Thomas Nast who popularized the plump jolly form in 1863, marking a shift from the austere figure to a fuller, cheerful character.
The Massachusetts General Court in 1659 decreed fines of five shillings for observing Christmas Day by any form of celebration or rest from labor. The Puritans favored Thanksgiving instead and discouraged Christmas revelry.
A reader describes two Jerusalems in one trip, the modern city with streetcars hotels and cars beside the ancient walled quarters. Donkeys and camels still connect the old markets as narrow lanes wind between archways and terraced levels, echoing Christ era streets.
The government's baby book Infant Care has sold an estimated 65,600,000 and distributed 28,000,000 copies. Since its first 1914 edition, nine editions trace changing child care views from birth to first birthday, noting shifts from delayed fruit juice to earlier feeding by 1951.
NBC Counterspy lead Je ot MacLAUGHLIN began in radio with a neighing horse that paid $22.50 his first year. The Ohio native, dubbed the man with the typical American voice, headlines in The Road of Life as Dr. Jim Brent while TV plans surround Bess Myerson and Rock Hudson projects. Infant Care lineage traces shifts in feeding and thumb-sucking views, with editions averaging medical input and global interest.
Lewistown Daily News proposes joining Montana and Alaska into a new state named Montanaska to balance Canada's Alberta British Columbia union into British Calberta.
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Laura endures a Nebraska blizzard with Jud and two children fleeing a prairie snowstorm. The wagon loses control, horses slacken, and the family battles frost, fear, and hunger before a perilous return home. Jud finally drives them to safety as the storm rages, leaving them shaken but alive.
A citizen argues for increasing third class mail rates to raise postal revenue and curb deficits without burdening the general public. He warns inflation harms savers and urges political action to cut government spending and taxes, calling for honesty in government.
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