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Newspaper
Rolfe Arrow
Location
Rolfe, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1921
Page
4
A humorous vintage collection of Christmas jokes and witticisms from 1772 era chroniclers. The piece features quips about Solomon, paydays on Christmas Eve, drinkers, love, marriage, and social mores with sly digressions on society figures and common woes.
Rolfe stores trim stock for Christmas and will stay open every night next week. The Arrow ads invite readers to consider Petersons' Clothes Shop The Fair Store Hikenberry Taylor J White Son and many others as sources for gifts. Is My Name Written There should be the watchword of every business house in Rolfe.
In Des Moines, the Evening Tribune promises more reading matter than rival papers. It claims November pages exceed competitors by 47 and offers beyond ads including news pictures features and market reports for a yearly $4.00 subscription with money-back guarantee.
A child explains Christmas in Chicago with no chimney or fireplace. The family lives in a steam heated flat and fears Santa Claus cannot enter through a two inch pipe. The poem expresses worry that Santa will not fit and deliver toys.
A New York Tribune note warns that Christmas holly, once common in southern New Jersey and Maryland, is vanishing due to city market cutters. Supplies now shrink as holly is hunted to swamps in Virginia and North Carolina, with Gulf states mirroring the decline. Botanists fear holly could join mistletoe in scarcity within a generation.
Captain Sam Brady, noted frontier fighter on the Pennsylvania Ohio border, escaped Indian captivity in Ohio after a stake ordeal. He leaped a 22 foot chasm at the Cuyahoga near Kent, pursued by tribes, evading capture by diving into a lake and hiding beneath water lilies before reaching Fort Pitt.
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