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Newspaper
Scandia Journal
Location
Scandia, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1944
Page
2
A collage of humorous poems on taxes and trees contrasts with wartime notes. The piece cites Roosevelt and Franco, riffs on tax forms, a WPB envoy to China, New York hotel stays, and light commentary on aviation, Japan, and Leyte.
Washington Irving recounts a December stagecoach ride in Yorkshire. Crowded coach, festive mood, curious passengers, and a lively coachman amid villages and smithies. He notes Christmas warmth, bustling village scenes, and an English inn’s inviting kitchen near nightfall.
A quotation traces the saying Christmas comes but once a year to Thomas Tusser in The Farmer's Daily Diet, an early English work from around the 16th century. Tusser, active circa 1515 to 1580, uses the line to urge festive merriment at Christmas.
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