Bethlehem Nativity Story Told by Dorothea Waitzmann
The Christmas narrative recounts Mary and Joseph traveling from Nazareth to Bethlehem in December, finding no inn space, a stable cradle for Jesus, angelic visions to shepherds, and Wise Men bearing gifts. The piece emphasizes humility, peace, and universal goodwill sparked by the holy night.
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Bethlehem
Jerusalem
Mary
Galilee
City of
David
Joseph
Augustus
Shepherds’ Field
Christ the Lord
Jesus
Tied Up in Love and Christmas at the Department Store
Rusty McGonegal, a clerk, endures a crowded Christmas eve as a overbearing shopper and Miss Annabelle Tooodles occupy his thoughts. He frets about gold, brown hair, and a polka dot tie while the store stays open late for last minute shoppers and a date with Annabelle.
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Rusty McGonegal
Rusty
Green
Blue
Henry
Loop
Miss Annabelle
Toodles
Miss Toadies
Annabelle
the Aragon
Christmas Trees Become Big Business for Santa's Gift Season
The article notes Christmas tree farming as a major industry in the United States and Canada. It highlights grower profits, regional production in Washington Mason County and Montana, and the rise of tree farming practices under forestry management. It also cites R. Kirk Co. shipments and rising prices, with Santa depicted as a lead tree farmer in a growing, science based industry.
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Santa
Santa Claus
America
North Fole
United States
Pacific Northwest
Great Lakes
Canada
G. R. Kirk Company
Mississippi
Montana
Seattle
J. Hofert Company
James L. Woodbury
Morrill
Maine
Woodbury
Mason County
Washington
Forest Industries
Tree Farmers of America
Manhattan
Wall Street
Dolls Return to Fashion with New Christmas Line
Santa Claus prepares for a festive season with a wide selection of dolls for all ages. After wartime toy making, the current collection features complete wardrobes and costumes for various social occasions. Historically wax bisque and China dolls give way to plastics in many designs.
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Santa Claus
Nativity Figures Preserved by Pennsylvania Dutch Homes
Scenes of Nativity in Pennsylvania are kept as treasured heirlooms among the Pennsylvania Dutch. Families pass the figures down through generations and display them in living rooms during the holiday season. During Christmas week they go from house to house admiring the Putyes by doorbell rounds.
Many Ways of Saying Merry Christmas Across Cultures
The piece notes how Christmas greetings differ by country as Joyeux Noel in France Rozhdestvom Khristovym in Russia and Merry Christmas in the United States. It emphasizes language as a vehicle for universal Yuletide sentiment across Christian civilizations.
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France
Russia
U. S
Unguarded Wares Prove Honesty in Bayboro
In Bayboro North Carolina J G Alcock the local hardware dealer says his store has kept $300 worth of tinware horse collars fencing farm and fishing equipment unguarded in front of the shop day and night for 17 years with only rare thefts. He explains the lack of space indoors and notes that customers who take items during his absence always return to settle up later.
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Bayboro
N. C
J. G. Alcock
Alcock
Pattern Sizing and Fabric Yardage Note
Pattern 2%3 details sizes 2 3 4 5 and vote on fabric length. Size 3 skirt requires 114 yards of Dive jacket and short sleeve 14 yards ceveralls 154 yards.
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Ceveralls
Liquid Sand Reveals Odd Liquid Like Behavior
A dry substance, described as liquid sand, acts like a liquid when used to grind lithographers' stones. A hole punched in it closes, and objects that sink in water will also sink in this strange substance, suggesting it behaves as a liquid despite being dry.
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Gloria IN Excelsis Deo
Nazareth
Palestine
Israel
Moses
Egypt
Caesar Augustus
Dorothea Waitzmann
By Wendell Brooks
Polka Dottie
Great Plains
Pines
Pennsylvania
Our
Sewing Circle
Pattern Dept
Mission St
San Francisco
Calif
Sis
Scott
Eveready
Labseumecy
Dhe
Evereach
National Carbon Company, Inc
East 42Nd Street
New York
N. Y
Union Carbide
Td and Carbon Corporation
The
American Standards Association
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