Christmas Carols Comeback Across the Nation
Drawing by Ray Walters explores the revival of Christmas carol singing in hotels stations and streets as a growing custom in modern America. It traces origins from angels singing to medieval wassail traditions and notes Austria’s Silent Night born in 1818 by Joseph Mohr and Franz Gruber.
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Elmg Scott Watson
Ray Walters
America
Biz Department
Christ
Luke
David
Saylor
Christ the Lord
Theophilue
Caesarea
Aung
Urban
Europe
England
Barlee
Eng
Germany
France
Bosland
Russia
Austria
Joseph Biehr
Oberndorf
Salsburg
Loaufen
Maler
Joseph Mohr
Salzburg
Maier
Lausen
Straighway
Franz Gruber
Gruber
St. Nicola
Gut Gruber
Mobranda Gruber
Ox-eyed Daisies and the Black Center Fairy Tale
A tiny fairy rests on an ox-eyed daisy and accidentally muds its center. The Fairy Queen orders all fairies to add a black center by mud wading, giving birth to black eyed Susans as the flowers' new look and name.
Velvet fashionsloom velvet adds to its laurel in daytime wear
Chelsea Nicholas reports on velvet fashion highlighting velvet coats and matching hats trimmed with astrakhan furs. The piece notes velvet for daytime wear, emerald and black colors, elaborate sleeves, fur boleros, coachman capes, and velvet millinery as key style statements for winter.
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Jeep
Empire Line
Chelse Nicholas
Western Newspaper Union
RIDDLES And wordplay from a late edition page
A series of puns and riddles answers ranging from hogs to sausage to jam. The jokes hinge on wordplay about ages meats foods and daily objects, with lines about locomotives engineers newspaper weekly suns crops and stocks.
The Truth at Last Youngster and the Butcher Dialogue
A brief dialogue shows a confrontation between a young man seeking no vaccination and a butcher who implies limited aid. The exchange hints at tension over help and cost.
A Cheap Romeo Teacher What Juliet Said to Romeo
A lighthearted note asks what Juliet said to Romeo on meeting in the balcony and playfully suggests seats down front as a reply.
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Juliet
Romeo
Vupi
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