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Newspaper
Roblin Review
Location
Roblin, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Dec 23, 1965
Page
7
A globe trotting overview of New Year customs from Holland to Ukraine, with straw stropoppen, coal for the first visitor, chimney sweeps, grape strokes for each chime, bells for Portuguese children, and multilingual greetings. It notes Babylonian roots and lingering superstitions carried into modern celebrations.
A church message reflects on Christmas as more than a child’s holiday. It urges trust in God, not self, and emphasizes Jesus’s birth as a universal gift guiding all ages toward peace, joy, and humility in the New Year.
A Christmas meditation urges generous Gifts and honest warmth to spread the spirit of Christ abroad. The piece celebrates gift giving, greetings, hospitality, and kindness as ways to make Christmas known from country towns to distant shores, insisting the Christ presence should be felt everywhere.
A short devotional line from Rev. E. S. Dixon of Roblin United Church speaks of sunlight and a perfect love offered to the world as he leads worship. The text frames a spiritual message in a concise form.
In Norway villagers lay unthreshed wheat for birds on Christmas morning. A northern England maiden used holly under her pillow for a mate. Punch derives from Hindustani five. its five ingredients are spirit lemon water sugar and spice. Old weather lore linked moon phase and Christmas to crops and winter. The Indiana village Sante Fe grew after a post office opened, until the USPS required its name change.
The piece surveys Christmas traditions from Santa Claus in Indiana to holiday beliefs in Scotland Denmark and France. It notes Santa Claus mail rushes, German evergreen history at Kalends of January, Scottish spirits, French baby speech lore, and Danish bread customs tied to harvest.
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