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Newspaper
Plainfield Messenger
Location
Plainfield, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1922
Page
4
A 1922 Western Newspaper Union blurb touts Christmas letters as more meaningful than gifts. A bright holiday seal opens the note with jolly tone, then warm thoughts follow. The piece argues letters are inexpensive to send yet precious to loved ones, inviting readers to try.
A contrast to the holiday mood unfolds in a damp underground passage where travelers hurry to light and cheer. An old blind piper, long a fixture in the dismal place, lifts weary spirits with a merry tune as kind strangers offer tokens and thanks.
The fragment suggests a sister teasing about a handsome present from someone named Cholly or another male figure. It hints at a Christmas gift expectation and possible romantic or friendly interest, but the text is incomplete and unclear on specifics.
A four year old named Hail, long attending Sunday school, refused the teacher’s question about going to Heaven. When asked why, Hail replied that Heaven has not been long came from there, a remark reported by Asa Ben Rete in the Wilmington News.
The piece urges peace and goodwill on Christmas, noting the season lights civilization and resists barbarity. It reflects on a newspaper's role in human forces, praising cooperation and optimism while wishing readers cheerful spirits and continued support.
In a Great Lakes city on Christmas Eve a Special Delivery post office worker guides a heavenly messenger through snow and night. The angel brings letters of hope from a nurse, a home letter, a theater star, and a traveling man, each sparking quiet joy among weary souls.
A traveling man seeks a missing woman on Christmas Eve and finds her, as a heavenly messenger delivers glad tidings. In a frost-bitten night scene, an old couple welcomes the angel with warmth, sharing news of a shipwreck survivor son returning home to a German family. The boy awakens Christmas morning to a mother’s warm, hopeful reflections and cheerful mail.
A sanitized OCR fragment notes that daily newspaper subscriptions per inhabitant differ by state with Massachusetts leading at about one subscriber per 1.00 inhabitants and only seven states above the general average. The text is garbled but suggests rural newspaper reach and subscriber density across the United States.
A sketchy historical note blends natural history with linguistic curiosity. It cites long lifespans for carp and trout, a lake tale from Swabia with a brass ring dated 1009, and traces the word person to parson as the priestly figure in a parish, followed by a moral on cultivating the art of leaving people alone.
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