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Newspaper
Roblin Review
Location
Roblin, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Dec 23, 1971
Page
7
Christmas carols popular across Christendom are sung by carolers and familiar to children. The piece notes Isaac Watts as writer of Joy to the World and creator of the modern hymn, authorship of hundreds of hymns.
Edmund H Sears chronicled Christmas music in Massachusetts. Silent Night was first sung in 1818 after mice silenced an Austrian church organ. Father Mohr wrote the lyrics and the organist added a guitar melody. Oh Come All Ye Faithful traces to Adeste Fidelis with debatable origins, potentially Saint Bonaventure in the 18th century.
The text explains how early Bible translations misidentified Palestine’s native trees. It lists terebinth as elm, aspen as mulberry, sycamore misnamed, and other confusions. It notes shittim acacia, carob, Judas tree, date palm, olive, fig, apricot, pomegranate, almond, pistachio, and walnut as key species in ancient Palestine.
In 1836 Alabama became the first U.S. state to designate Christmas as a legal holiday, marking a historic shift in the observance and public recognition of the holiday within the state.
How well will you endure the stresses of standing, toting gifts, and hailing clerks? Exercise gauges prompt tests: hang in there on one leg 60 seconds, balance a gift with a yardstick for 60 seconds, draw shapes in the air, and alternate musical notes for a minute.
A puzzle lists tongue variations of place names including Norge Helvetia Nippon Hellas Suomen Tasavaita Magyar Orzag Bharat Shqiperia Espana and other garbled forms. Readers are asked to identify four or five correct modern equivalents from the mixed strings.
Santa Claus offers a memory trick using a random page and nine-line constraint. A reader picks a word from the first nine lines, ensuring it lies within the first nine words of that line, then multiplies the page number by 10 and adds a further step.
The passage explains a cipher where a line number and word position are used with page numbers to produce a total. The performer computes 630 for page sixty three, adds line four and word six, multiplies, then subtracts 250 to locate the word six on line four of page 63.
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