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Newspaper
Petal Paper
Location
Petal, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Dec 25, 1958
Page
1
A column offers lighthearted holiday memories and a satirical note on gifts and views. It recounts a Hattiesburg Miss Santa story of a tired performer and a church scene, closing with a tease about continued material on page 12.
A December 3 1958 letter from Dick Gibbons to Lou Crosby mocks a holiday fruitcake advertisement linked to the Forrest County Home Economics Alumnae Association of Mississippi Southern College. He jokes about timing and postal delays while enclosing a $3.50 check and requesting a two pound fruitcake. The editor notes reveal this piece is a reworked past column by PDE.
A tired figure named The Man is told by the Voice to take a vacation during Christmas. In a peaceful city scene strangers greet each other and discuss the season of brotherly love. Three youths invite him to a party, probing his origins as the Man reveals he was born in Bethlehem near Jerusalem.
In Ashland Kentucky w a Morris operates a three wheeled mower combination power mower tricycle and automobile to tend 14 lawns. The vehicle features a tin roof and adjustable window grades to ward off rain.
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