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Newspaper
Saline Reporter
Location
Saline, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1972
Page
4
In parts of France Spain and Mexico a special twelfth night cake hides a bean. The finder is hailed as Bean King a survival of the Saturnalia practice of choosing the ruler by lot.
Saline School Board approved higher charges for district building use by groups not exempt under bylaws. Adds 50 cent per hour pay for volunteer cafeteria staff at banquets and a new 20 dollar custodial fee for Middle School cafeteria use. High School rates updated with auditorium 40 to 50 and gym 75 to 200, with gym tournaments earning over 200 per event.
The Tuesday Night Singles Club at the Ann Arbor YM YWCA plans a New Year's Eve party for Saturday December 31. Local leagues list standings for Saline junior and Merchant division teams. Betsy Meister and Barb Leonard lead individual scores in recent blocks with multiple players posting high series.
A diary recounts a Dixie plantation dinner with oyster soup mut ton ham and turkey served alongside wild ducks partridges plum pudding lauterne Burgundy sherry and Madeira. In 1858 miners in the Rockies faced a menu of elk antelope buffalo smothered and grizzly bear a la mode with Black Mountain squirrel prairie dog mountain rats swans cranes and quail plus wines.
The article notes Europeans mainly give gifts on St. Nicholas Day December 6 or Christmas Eve, with Epiphany January 6. In English speaking regions gift exchange centers on Christmas Day. Mistletoe is rarely used in church decorations due to its pagan associations as a Druid emblem.
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