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Newspaper
Russell Banner
Location
Russell, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Dec 17, 1980
Page
13
The minister warned that a Christmas tree can burn if base contact occurs. Store outdoors until required and place in water once indoors, trimming the butt diagonally. Refill water to prevent rapid drying. Clear wrappings from the base and keep cigarettes lighters cigars and matches away. Set the tree away from heat sources including radiators fireplaces and TVs.
Christmas music heightens the season with reverent or merry tunes. The article notes famous composers like Adolphe Adam and Felix Mendelssohn, traditional melodies such as Deck the Halls, and the universal joy shared by all social strata through carols, cantatas, and songs.
A brief history traces Christmas cards from 1843 when John Horsley designed the first card for Sir Hew Cole to Louis Prang popularizing cards in the United States. The rise of free city mail delivery in 1863 and postal expansion swamped the system by the 1880s, while Prang’s designs often avoided nativity themes and favored birds flowers and children.
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