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Newspaper
Pickens Sentinel
Location
Pickens, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1916
Page
2
A poetic Christmas reflection extols the Star of Faith and Love guiding humanity toward charity and kindness. The piece invokes Bethlehem and the Christmas Spirit lighting the world with peace and good will to men, celebrating a universal humane ideal.
A man wanders a big store seeking a shirtwaist for his wife. He asks a random woman for her size claiming it matches his wife. The helpful clerk counsels color and fit, then échanges names with marital coworkers as the scene ends with a polite goodbye.
A reflective piece on how good wishes bless both giver and receiver, recounting Montague Williams tales of generosity and the miserly Old Pickbones who left ten thousand pounds to an unknown sender of annual Best wishes cards. The text frames Christmas as a season to spread well wishes and the strong bond they create.
The passage exhorts embracing peace on earth and good will to men as a daily motto. It envisions a world improved if each person commits to kindness and reflects the Christmas spirit year round in thoughts and actions.
A fragment notes a character fearing no gift. The line reveals a person sending a present yesterday, suggesting tepid suspense over holiday exchange in a conversational voice.
A New York area columnist notes there are about four thousand youngsters now old enough to notice Christmas lights this year after last year’s ignored initial years. He warns of fresh holiday appeals and growing excitement among families and youngsters.
It is a curious and beautiful thing about this Christmas spirit that year after year it leads us to attempt the all but impossible to give pleasure to others. In the end everyone's joy comes not from receiving but from what he has done for them.
A fragment shows Mr Meektot recalling a Christmas gift exchange. He mentions his wife preferring useful gifts and notes she bought him a new snow shovel last Christmas. The text remains incomplete and lacks clear context.
A vivid, lyrical description centers on a woman with copper colored hair and a spider like gaze. The prose emphasizes her lips, throat, and veins with sensuous detail, surrounded by two arms closing in as a defining presence.
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