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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1913
Page
8
A poetic Christmas excerpt depicts a child’s joy and gratitude on Christmas Day. The speaker thanks the Christ-child for the gift of love and asks for a happier day of days as the meaning of the season is embraced.
Sadness and Gladness walk together as Christmas bells ring joining in a moment of shared sorrow and joy. Gladness smiles through tears while Sadness finds comfort in the Christ martyr's pain. The two figures entwine, becoming lifelong friends everywhere.
A Grenoble factory taps mountain reservoir water via a 200 yard vertical tube to drive a turbine. The jet, under high pressure, can cut steel only with the strongest tools or fragments without deflection. A small inch-thick jet reportedly resists rifle bullets in tests. A separate note recounts a school scene about forgiveness, ending with a boy’s black eye after forgiving a classmate.
A dialogue features Mr Grasseater rejecting meat as a life cost and choosing boiled potato. Mr Mentfed agrees but notes the potato's production has cost thousands of potato bugs lives.
Weather notes blur the tale as men served the banker on Christmas Day marking their turn for the year. The Circle members commit to remembering the obligation throughout the year.
A frightened servant recalls a great dog guarding a planter’s money, a thief chewed, and a stingy, aged planter of 70 who has new tea gardens. The dog’s ghostly fear keeps thieves away, while the cook and buffaloes feature in this quirky India tale from North Lakhimpur, Assam.
A short verse about dreaming of Christmas morning finding a stocking unchanged with a card from Santa Claus who cannot fill it because it is full of holes. The speaker awakes relieved and resolves that the dream must not come true.
A classroom scene shows a teacher asking students to name the shortest and longest days of the year. After the class correctly identifies December 21 as the shortest, a student named Luck misstates December 24 as the longest day, prompting a corrective moment.
A city suburb ride reveals a generous businessman greeting motormen with a large Christmas plate and coffee on the car. The scene explains why regulars praise him, as workers line up for their own holiday meals and the car returns on schedule each day.
Presbyterians describe Christmas as heaven overflowing with goodwill that flows into earthly life. The text likens Bethlehem to a guiding melody, and the manger to a crude vessel holding God’s love, reaching hearts to soften self interest and reveal kindness.
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