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Newspaper
Scandia Journal
Location
Scandia, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1917
Page
5
A Philadelphia Record piece compares Christmas dinners across nations. France offers fowl with liver pudding. Spain starts with almond soup then fish. Russia features beef and beet juice soup with young pig. Italy centers on eels. Germany serves goose and sausages. Switzerland ends with pastries and goose roast.
A Woman's Slain Companion piece recounts a playful Christmas plan. The sisters hid a two foot tree with tiny packages including a silk waist from a magazine, a purse of money, a doll muff in a pill box, and a rug cut from a page. The surprise remained intact until after the rush.
The Philadelphia Press recalls Washington crossing the Delaware in 1776 to defeat the British and Hessians at Trenton. The victory revived colonies’ spirits, turning a potential defeat into a turning point and marking a Christmas gift of hope and national resolve. Washington called it the happiest Christmas of his life.
A poem from Charles Hanson Towne in the New York World celebrates Christmas spreading through streets and countrysides. It depicts love, light, and joy moving from a widow to a child, with images of moonlight and crystal air, conveying a universal festive spirit.
Poem in dialect from Eugene Field describing a boy Willie or Bill preparing for Christmas. The narrator's family roles and pets appear, with humor about mischief, chores, and etiquette, ending with a pledge to be well behaved before Christmas.
In a New York Evening Sun spoof, Santa Claus testifies in the People v S Claus, denying illegal market restraint while blaming parents for Christmas demand. The judge halts proceedings as jury leaves to shop, and Santa wishes the court a Merry Christmas.
A Baltimore Sun poem fragment by Folger McKinsey paints Christmas as seen through children's eyes. It speaks of autumn skies, glowing secrets, and the joy of Santa, lights, and holiday cheer amid life’s struggles.
A ninth century legend credits Saint Winfried with transforming pagan ritual by felling an oak and revealing a young fir. He declares the tree sacred to the Christ Child, guiding Norse and Germanic peoples toward peaceful home ceremonies.
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