Hard’s Rich Dilemma Casts a Grim Christmas Mood
In a city drawing on its charity and public events, Owen S. Hard an affluent lawyer sits amid reflections on wealth and obligation. A friend notes Hard’s habit of bailing out others, while Hard alone probes whether wealth has isolated him, voicing a private fear of being seen as merely a society man who buys attention.
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Alice Louiee Lee
Wen Hard
Christmay
Yemang
Bard
Yemans
Owen
Hard
Hard Guardian Of A Christmas Gift
A weary man, Hard, meets a boy named Robert Allison Broxley at his office. Robert brings a pair of twins and a gift girl named Ruth, offering Hard a chance to care for one baby while Robert takes the other, ending with Hard hiring Robert to help raise Ruth as their bond deepens.
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Robert
Hard
Haré
Olay
Bree
Namin
Cate
Ruth
Ford
Mara
Mre. Broxley
Robert Allison Broxley
Yemans
Yeumans
Mr. Hard
The Only Child Freddy's Christmas Racket
Freddy Herman, an only child, receives a grand Christmas with a drum train and toy pistol. His parents and Grandma Herman watch the boy’s noisy joy fill the house as he parades through the hall shouting with delight. The piece notes Freddy’s unique status and family reflections on child rearing and holiday excess.
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Mel
Herman
Freddy
Preddy
Fred
Heither
Fret
Masa-m-mu
Clandma Herman
Vena
Mamma
Origin of Christmas Carols in Medieval Mystery Plays
The article explains that Christmas carols originated in eleveth century mystery or miracle plays. Songs introduced scenes about the coming of the Christ Child and became fixed in memory. At gatherings, people sang inherited carols, turning these songs into Christmas tunes.
The Old Woman Who Lived In A Shoe Parable Christmas
A verse speaks as an old woman with many children asking how to fit more into her home at Christmas. It reflects on sympathy for the famous nursery tale while lamenting crowded rooms and worried hearts.
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Tam
Taupe
Fragmentary World Notes From The Era Of Inquiry
A collage of miscellaneous items notes distant places and curious facts. It mentions British subjects in fear Americas shipping potatoes typewriters in Spyry Belief in electric glass making advances and a giant U S flag in Washington D C. It references the New England school system the American Museum in New York and the American Stock Breeders association with Eugenics headed by Alexander Bell. It also cites a New York hotel a roof chicken farm and tail carriage of a dog and various questions about coins and banking and brain weight.
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America
New England
American Museum of Natural History
New York
Corone Torsils
American Stock Breeders’ Association
Alexander Eech Bell
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Cara
Freddy Herman
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al Inhorareryat
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AL Washington
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