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Newspaper
Patoka Register
Location
Patoka, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 17, 1943
Page
7
A collection of holiday customs from Britain and India detailing superstitions linked to December and Christmas. Readers learn about through hole rituals at Craigmadden and Malabar Point, plus beliefs on holly, leather, green auspicious firsts, and luck-bringing yokey omens like crickets and roosters.
The North Riding of Yorkshire keeps Frumity Night on Christmas Eve featuring a wheat dish baked slowly then simmered with milk and flour. Dishes include sugar cured ham, golden pork pies with jelly, spiced loaf, rich Christmas cake, mince pies, home made bread, and Sally Lunn teacakes. The scene evokes plenty and plenty of food.
Create a Santa Claus figure using one red apple as the body and a marshmallow head. Attach head to body with library paste at the stem, then decorate with clove eyes lipstick nose rouge cheeks and cotton waistcoat. Finish with a red paper dunce cap outlined with cotton trim.
A compact religious feature outlines a school lesson by Harold L Lundquist from the Moody Bible Institute of Chicago. It presents a concise devotional viewpoint released for distribution by Western Newspaper Union.
A compact lesson outlines Christ as God's ultimate revelation, final Word to humanity, and the saving end of the law. It contrasts prior prophets with Jesus, notes angels' place beside the Son, and explains how faith in Christ fulfills the require ments of the law, enabling obedience through grace.
The piece suggests building a wheeled toy chest with a folding lid serving as a play table. It encourages using scraps of plywood or composition board and wooden wheels, plus bright paint. Mrs Spears provides directions, full size patterns, and a color stencil guide.
The Komodo dragons, large lizards inhabiting Komodo Rintja and Flores in eastern Java, are considered among the oldest living relatives of prehistoric giant dinosaurs. They reach up to ten feet in length with short tails and possess long sharp claws.
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