Christmas Around the World Traditions and Customs
The piece describes how December 25 is celebrated as a red letter day in many lands with varied customs. It notes historical mentions, Scandinavian Christmas trees, Norwegian rice pudding traditions, Chinese Lan Khoong Khoong gifts and Tree of Light, carol singing, and Latin American pinata celebrations in Guatemala Honduras and Mexico.
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Santa Claus
Norway
China
Don Che Lao Ren
Herald Angels
Guatemala
Honduras
Mexico
Norway Christmas Was Top Event
The article recalls how Christmas preparations in Norway began six months before December 24. Families made clothes, shoes, and candles at home with local resources, cobblers and tailors visiting, and even birds remembered with special straw trees built from harvested materials and reapers’ gravity debris gathered for decorations.
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Norway
Christmas Tree Industry Expands Across United States
The Christmas tree trade becomes a large national business with 15 to 16 million trees cut and shipped for the holidays. Prices range from 1 to 15 dollars per tree as farmers discover Christmas trees as a cash crop from eroded land.
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United States
Camel and Prince Albert gifts for Christmas smokers
A Christmas gift idea feature promotes Camel cigarettes with ten packs per carton and emphasizes Camels as a top choice. It also suggests Prince Albert Smoking Tobacco for pipe and roll‑your‑own smokers. Items come wrapped with built in greeting cards for easy writing.
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Prince Albert
P.S
Prince Aber
Make Christmas Figures To Decorate Your Tree Pattern
Pattern 320 provides five designs and directions for making and decorating Christmas figures. Price c. WORKSHOP PATTERN SERVICE Drawer 10 Bedford Hills New York.
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Price
Bedford Hills
New York
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Nick
U.S
Joseph Booth
Morristown
Hyesanjin
Wyoming
Lorraine Kurnath
International Amphitheater
Chicago
Korea
Greece
U.N
Paul
Athens
United Nations
New Jersey
U.S.S
Brooklyn Navy Yard
William Halsey
Japan
Carmen Torresola
Rosa Collazo
Federal Court
Truman
Torresola
Esquire
Barbara Harvey
Colorado College
Clarence Biskey
Fay
Brooklyn
Washington
American Activities Committee
Picasso
Paris
Crown Prince
Olav
Washington, D. C
White House
Harry S. Truman
Crown Princess
Martha
Lydia
Pinkham
Lydia E. Pinkham
Doan
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