Fashion and royalty satire and Christmas manners note
The piece rails at King George V for lacking sartorial guidance while mocking royal dress rules and politics. It also lampoons Christmas giving and the Spugs society urging genuine generosity over social duty, ending with Boston shoppers told to walk on the right and avoid loitering on narrow streets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward VII
House of Commons
Asquith
George
Spugs
Society For the
Boston
Little Mandy and Her Ma Christmas Wish
Poem narrates a Dickensian scene of poverty in a town where Little Mandy and her mother endure squalor. The narrator recalls their Christmas fear and the neighborly gift of a Christmas tree from the Sunday School to brighten the children’s holiday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mandy
Childerns
Bobbs-Merrill Co
Christmas Eve and Community Social Notes
A string of local notices covers illness and travel for Mrs. Julia Neilson and Mrs. Kate Caldwell, farm and family visits, a near-miss with a horse, scarlet fever fears, and a Thanksgiving wedding at Richard Kissner’s home. The piece ends with a Christmas Eve reminiscence about church, gifts, and the mysterious Little Mandy’s Christmas Tree.
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Julia Neilson
Kate Caldwell
Florida
Richard Kissner
Patoka
Lester Ballance
Flossie Kissner
H. L. Ballance
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Pittenger
City Hall
Little Mannys Kristwie
Beast OF Town
Sylvester
Foster Armstrong
Frank Lucas
James McNichol
Borden Farm
William McNichol
Chas. Losey’s
Chance School
Ira Caldwell
Robin Foltz
James Tucker
Decatur
H. D. Armstrong
Chas. Grubb and Wife
Geo. Balis
Kinmundy
Charlie Maulding
Chas. Anderson
Mordacai Lee
Rosa Tomlinson
Til
Santa Claus
Rey
Jack
L. Truitt
Amelia Truitt
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Palvonchuice
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A. Simcox & Co
Daisy
John Pugh
Patoka, Ill
T.E. Irvin
Dorothy Dodd
Davis - Reichenbach Shoe CO
Centralia, Ill
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