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Newspaper
Scandia Journal
Location
Scandia, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1961
Page
4
The notice lists Thursday 4 p.m junior choir meeting and 4th Sunday events. It includes 10:00 am Sunday School 11:00 am Worship and 11:30 pm Christmas Eve Candle Lighting Service.
A patient at the Veterans hospital in Grand Island Nebraska receives thanks for the cards and well wishes from John Nondorf. Mrs Sherman Robison was a Thursday evening guest of Mrs Bertha Granstedt. Mr and Mrs James Homan Wichita are parents of a baby girl born Friday December 15. Grandparents are Mr and Mrs Richard Fogelberg. Great grandparents are Mr and Mrs Charlie Berggren and Mrs Lena Fogelberg.
A preChristmas dinner and gift exchange was held Sunday at the home of Mrs. Agnes Cardwell. Attendees included Mr. and Mrs. Homer Cardwell Mr. and Mrs. Duaine Green Slade Mr. and Mrs. Todd Cardwell Mr. and Mrs. George Cardwell Steven Mr. and Mrs. Delbert Aspegren and family and Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Brown and family from near Beloit.
The article argues work and training reduce juvenile delinquency. It highlights reformatory programs, community clergy efforts, and youth employment centers like Topeka East Side Civil Association and Lawrence Sertoma Club with 432 placements for ages 14 to 18. It notes stigma against ex cons hinders reintegration and urges vocational training and councils to aid parolees.
Pattern notice for apron trio No 3114 and waist fitted sweater No 1093 sizes 32 to 42. Instructions include knitting and sewing items. Send 35 cents for dress pattern or 25 cents for needlework pattern plus 10 cents first class mailing to Audrey Lane Bureau Box 1490 New York 1 NY.
Frankincense and myrrh come from Somaliland and Arabia. Frankincense is tapped from small trees with pale bark and yellow resin tears shipped from Aden to Europe, America, or Bombay. Myrrh, from Somaliland, yields brown to red brown masses used in embalming and medicine, with ancient ascriptions for chest pain and other ailments.
The first US music bar was produced in 1892 by the Regina Box Company, a branch of a German firm. Music boxes emerged after 1780, developed by Swiss watchmakers.
Barrel-shaped glass lights served as ornaments before the century turn, with illumination glowing through amethyst moss and emerald green glass balls and blue and gold hues, complemented by strings of tinsel.
Poinsettia care tips emphasize bright sun warm drafts and 70 degree indoor warmth. Water when the soil dries to wet it to the bottom. The second item references a hopeful holiday scene with lights over the Brandenburg Gate on the Soviet British border as West Berlin decorates a tree symbolizing hope.
Safety tips for selecting a fresh Christmas tree and keeping it safe. Check needle freshness by tapping the end, keep the tree in water, place away from heat sources, use fire resistant decorations, inspect electric lights, provide an accessible switch, and discard when needles shed.
Franklin Pierce and Benjamin Harrison had yule trees in the White House. Theodore Roosevelt banned trees fearing forest loss. His sons Archie and Quentin cut a tree, saved from punishment when forester Gifford Pinchot argued selective cutting benefits forests.
A shopping center near Seattle drew crowds by erecting a 212 foot Christmas tree. The display used about 3,500 colored bulbs and required the lift of a helicopter to place and trim the top sections.
The first Christmas observance in our region followed Columbus discovery. The Santa Maria beached on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. effort to free her failed, gear was salvaged to the Nina, leaving some crew behind in a fort named La Navidad in honor of the season.
The piece traces plum pudding’s origin to the early English frumenty a dish of boiled wheat and broth or milk with yolks. An imaginative cook later added raisins prunes mace chopped suet and other ingredients, creating the plum pudding.
A fragmented advice piece suggests brightening doors and windows with festive ribbons sprigs holly and wreaths. It recommends stringing decorations along the door frame and across curtains to create a cheerful, colorful effect with bows and festooned ribbons.
A reflective piece compares the first Christmas's hardship with modern woes. It urges Christians to acknowledge world sorrow, resist cheerful denial, and renew effort to aid the oppressed, trusting that God remains sovereign even amid disappointment.
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