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Newspaper
Roblin Review
Location
Roblin, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Dec 21, 1977
Page
4
Zeb Harrod returns with a wounded Indian and shelters him at the cabin. Mary fears Indians but aids the man while Tam chief and followers demand the hostage’s release, threatening a broken peace. The scene ends on New Year Eve with hopeful wishes for a peaceful year.
The piece traces the Christmas tree origins from Alsace and Prince Albert's impact in Victorian England to American adoption by German settlers and Hessian soldiers. It notes its rise as a universal holiday symbol and mentions typical decorations like popcorn, tinsel, and ornaments.
Lights and decorations define festive trees in homes and offices around the world. In Italy the ceppo pyramid uses a presepio and tiered shelves with gifts, fruit, and gilded pine cones. Denmark adds candles marzipan cookies and heart baskets as dancers sing a traditional song.
After Christmas trees can serve as mulch and frost protection. Small branches spread on beds. larger limbs form teepee covers for azaleas and shrubs. Trees anchored around boxwood and rhododendron provide shelter. Standalone trees can become backyard bird feeders with suet and a feeding shelf.
The article notes frankincense and myrrh as highly valued gifts alongside gold. It describes their origins from small trees, historical guarding by Arabian authorities, and uses from religious rites to burial anointing, linking myrrh to Bethlehem and Jesus’ tomb in John 19 39.
The piece urges readers to use the new year to set goals and plans, stressing success comes from initiative and effort, not luck. It encourages reasonable expectations and firm resolve to strive, earn, and achieve in the months ahead.
Make pineapple ice floats by freezing pineapple juice in small bell shaped molds. Dip in warm water and add to cranberry punch for about 12 servings. Cook cranberries with water and cloves until skins burst, strain, blend with water, strain again, heat with sugar, boil two minutes, stir in lemon juice, and serve with optional lemon slices and mint.
The article surveys explanations for the Star of Bethlehem seen by the Wise Men. It contrasts views calling it an exploding star or meteor with theories that it was a spiritual guiding light rather than a physical star. It notes ongoing scholarly debate.
Historians say the Wise Men may have followed a planetary grouping in 6 B.C. Jupiter Saturn Mars and Venus appeared together in the sky shaping the famed journey of the Magi. Astronomers note such a conjunction occurs about every 805 years.
Fragile glass ornaments and delicate creche figurines can be protected from breakage during storage by wrapping them in a sheet of foam rubber to cushion against knocks and shocks.
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