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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1904
Page
1
A wax doll sits near a Santa filled hearth in a pretty room where children sleep. A Napoleonic boy figure and a sailor girl porcelain figures observe a magical Christmas Eve. The doll worries about aging, melts, and awakens to find it all a dream, lovingly restored by a kind hand.
Christmas Eve in Mexico mirrors Spain with Noche Buena crowds filling streets and shopfronts. At midnight the Misa del Gallo fills magnificent temples in Mexico City with augmented choirs and orchestras for the birth of Christ.
A playful Christmas verse recounts gifts from relatives and friends the speaker did receive and the one gift he did not get. The narrator reflects joy in the absent present while recalling the romantic turn with a girl who prepared a mitten gift for him.
The piece surveys the Christmas tree’s origins across cultures from Norse myth and German Lutherans to Egyptian and Roman traditions, noting legends, saints, and the Advent glow of candles. It then shifts to modern Maine, describing balsam fir’s primacy, tree-farm economics, harvest timing, labor, and weather’s impact on output.
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