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Newspaper
Preston Citizen
Location
Preston, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1968
Page
9
The piece urges making Christmas about kinship and person to person ties rather than overburdened schedules. It recommends tenderness at home, involving spouses and children in preparations, and including extended family to foster goodwill and shared celebration.
The text reports the first U S Christmas card sent to R J Pease of New York in 1853. It describes the card as an advertisement for Pease and Co a goods merchant with a bright illustrated tree and figures including a gingerbread man and a large ball ornament. The scene conveys a homey, festive mood with a child’s wonder at the holiday display.
The piece surveys holiday meals across Europe noting carp in Poland, Austria, and Czechoslovakia, goose on Christmas Day in England, and turkey replacing goose in England over time. It mentions France’s midnight mass and later elaborate feasting before dawn on Christmas.
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