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Newspaper
Plainfield Messenger
Location
Plainfield, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1920
Page
3
A Christmas verse wishing health to the sick wealth to the poor smiles to the sorrowful and reunion of friends. It hopes for peace comfort and a rosy outlook replacing gloom this Christmas day with joy.
A Christmas poem inviting children and all people to share love and charity. It urges right living, neighborly giving, and welcoming the Christ Child as Christmas Eve nears.
The poem urges a return to Bethlehem to seek peace and restore faith declaring the heart should return and listen to the Christmas song. It warns against envy pride and denial of the dear Lord and calls for renewed devotion by following the star and angelic message.
A Kingsley excerpt urges mercy amid war urging believers to tell the tale of Bethlehem and the divine Babe. It calls for steadfast faith, compassion, and moral resolve on Christmas Day.
A conversation riffs on a neighbor who is called generous but only in taking credit for giving, with others paying the bill. The exchange compares him to a regular Santa Claus, highlighting a critique of his true generosity.
A Mount Holyoke professor Elizabeth R. Laird pursues the so called missing link in the ether spectrum, tracking from visible light through infra red and ultraviolet to gamma rays. She aims to bridge gaps between wireless, heat, light, X rays and Entladungsstrahlen with diffraction, vacuum and slow electron experiments. The article contrasts the physicist’s quest with the biologist’s search for links.
A humorous critique of the automobile tourist era, noting how modern travelers drive coast to coast for little cost, seek gasoline price relief, and sprawl along roadside garages mistaken for hotels. It highlights government price regulation and the booster effect tourists have on road infrastructure and regional economies.
The Christmas Eve center of a college town social circle is Marjorie’s home where the "bunch" gathers for gifts songs and romance. Jim plans to propose before the group and win Marjorie as more than a friend as Christmas joy and surprise follow.
In Berlin heavy taxation and costs push first class theaters toward closure while many companies face financial strain. Moving picture houses gain from lower prices as theater budgets fail to balance. Lessing theater director warns of trade hogmire he calls art for amusement's sake, not art's sake.
William of Hohenzollern, ex emperor of Germany, tries tailoring in Amsterdam per Central News. He cuts patterns for new suits to stock his wardrobe and a trade paper notes he excels at the job, lamenting he missed his vocation after his famed reign.
In Rome New York three weeks after Mrs. Margaret Ward placed eggs under a hen an unidentified egg found in a field hatched into a strange egg becoming a henhawk. The hen now mothers the odd chick.
The Grand Army of the Republic organized in Decatur with key figures Dr. B. F. Stephenson and Chaplain W. J. Rutledge of the Fourteenth Illinois guiding its formation. The first national encampment occurred November 20, 1866, and by 1976 the المنظمة had 5452 posts with 159,863 members as a memorial day initiative.
In a senior class vote at Columbia, kissing was approved by all who participated though half admitted to indulging. Water was named favorite drink, whisky second. Football and tennis were top outdoor sports. The class shows three times as many Republicans as Democrats.
Paul Eldridge of Hichinius, Kentucky, died after a coffin baptism in the town. Illness prevented a church ceremony, so a coffin improvised as a baptismal site with oil cloth lining. Elder WF Miley of the Christian church conducted the rite. A wife and several children survive.
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