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Newspaper
Plainfield Courier
Location
Plainfield, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1894
Page
2
A fragment recounts Christmas rituals and family illness fears with lines about Santa Claus and a doctor. It notes a narrator’s tension with childhood discipline and a desire to live like others, mentioning Maggie’s dislike of the stage and wish for farm life.
A traveling theater company shapes a newcomer's view of stage life. Maggie, a sharp partner, helps the narrator endure unpopularity, befriends Maggie, and discovers Jim Bowman's hidden family ties. Christmas meals, a chance reunion, and plans for marriage and a future offstage unfold amid hunger, loyalty, and ambition.
Two young boys trade holiday finds as a reporter glimpses their thrifted gifts from a Seventh Avenue shop and a neighborhood store on Forty Seventh Street and nearby streets. One recalls a book about fighting and a box of gumdrops. the other mentions a red box of candy and a picture book as sisters receive dolls.
A nostalgic look at medieval Christmas customs notes the yule log ignited by Scandinavians Goths and Saxons as a symbol of hospitality. Banquets featured the boar's head on silver or gold trays bedecked with holly and rosemary served with wassail while minstrels played.
The article traces mistletoe as a Christmas emblem tied to love and benevolence, noting Druidic associations and the English kiss custom. It recounts Norse myth of Balder and Frigg, Loki’s plot, and the mistletoe’s role in Balder’s death, with later archival anecdotes about the plant’s peril and symbolic power.
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