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Newspaper
Patoka Register
Location
Patoka, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1925
Page
13
Neighbors mention visits and family gatherings across Vandalia Patoka Carlyle Vernon Kinmundy and Decatur. Items include dental work, fence repair, ailing Uncle Jim Murry and Walla Coo returning to work after a seven week layoff.
In a family Christmas feast, Grandma is praised as youthful and kind, symbolized as windmill turning with the Wind of Good. Grandfather explains her strength as generosity that sustains joy, as cousins and relatives decide to learn from her example on Christmas Day. Martha Banning, 1925. Western Newspaper Union.
Martha White side a lonely old woman in a gray cottage receives a Christmas money order that reveals her generosity. The town had long mislabeled her as a miser but learns she gave to causes and others, winning their respect and affection.
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