Santa Brings Cheer to Penasse the Farthest North US Town
Santa Claus travels to Penasse Minnesota, the nation s farthest north community, by ski plane twice weekly from Warroad. Lt Nick, customs officials, and trapper Indiana Pete on the Lake of the Woods await his arrival every Christmas. Miss Helen Arnold, the 22 year old postmistress, notes winter business is slow even at the holidays.
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Penasse
Minn
Santa Claus
St. Nicholas
United States
Nick
Warroad
Indiana Pete
Lake of the Woods
Helen Arnold
Ointment from US shrub linked to Bible tale remembered at Christmas
A Minnesota shrub yields spikeward oil cited in the King James Bible as the anointing ointment for Jesus feet. Authorities note the plant’s abundance in northern Minnesota and other US areas, linking a local botanical source to the Christmas story shared with the Holy Land.
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America
Holy Land
Bethlehem
Minnesota
North Woods
United States
Jesus
Northern Outposts Await Planes With Christmas Parcels
EDMONTON ALBERTA Almost forgotten by millions of Canadian and American Christmas celebrants are residents of far flung outposts of the Canadian northwest territories. Each year they look forward to a merry Christmas if the weather is good and parcels arrive by plane in time for the annual celebration. Christmas express and provisions usually reach Adkavik 1480 miles northwest of Edmonton a few days before Christmas. Another far away place is Coppermine 1100 miles north of Edmonton on Coronation Pilot Marlowe Kennedy makes the trip to that outpost from Port Radium on Great Bear lake. But even though Christmas provisions don't come through by air plane residents of the arctic waste lands are brought to civilization's very door each Yuletide through the magic of radio.
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Edmonton
Alberta
Canadian
Northwest Territories
Adkavik
Coppermine
Coronation
Marlowe Kennedy
Port Radium
Great Bear Lake
Arctic
Christmas Tree Traditions In American Towns
Christmas trees are erected each December in the main square or street and in the town's activities center. Communities also string colored lights along streets to boost holiday spirit. The lighting ceremony occurs with the season and shopping ends after New Year’s Day.
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Sigmin
Yale
Fateful Meeting
In a December afternoon encounter a weary man is nearly ignored by passing drivers until a passing motorist stops. The meeting sparks a reflection on Christmas kindness and the urge to help one’s mother, highlighting human compassion amid holiday rush.
Unusual Christmas Meeting With Scientist Perry Birch
Tod Jenkins travels toward St. Louis to spend Christmas with his mother. A wind soggy car ride leads to an unexpected encounter with eccentric scientist Perry Birch who reveals he is the younger Spirit of Christmas and inspires Tod with a dream to become a scientist.
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Tod Jenkins
St. Louis
Tod
Ted
Perry Birch
WNU
Aerial Santa Delivers Gifts Along Coast to Lighthouses
Captain William H. Wincapaw flies from West Quoddy Head to New York each Christmas season delivering packages to isolated lighthouse keepers. He began the service a decade ago and now his son Bill Jr. assists by handling target work over each lighthouse, shouting Let er go as bundles are dropped.
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Santa Claus
Air
Boston
New England
William H. Wincapaw
West Quoddy Head
New York City
Wincapaw
Bill Jr
Bill
Dolls for grown ups and gifting ideas from Ruth Wyeth Spears
Christmas dolls excite collectors including adults who craft rag babies from scraps. Directions describe a stocking head and body, hand and foot divisions, and assembly with a wool sweater. Books by Mrs. Spears offer further sewing and crafts, with autographs and a free CrazyPatch quilt leaflet with orders.
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Spears
Largest Lake Reclaims NC Farm Then Submerges It Again
North Carolina’s Lake Mattamuskeet, the state’s largest lake, was partially drained in a massive reclamation project costing 17 million dollars to seal out the sea. Crops were planted but the attempt failed. the farm was abandoned and is now fully submerged as the lake refilled, the world’s largest water pumping system failing to hold back the water. The lake remains shallow, only one to six feet deep.
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North Carolina
Mattamuskeet
Classic Quiz Questions From Ask Me Another Round
A set of ten trivia prompts covers claims to polar land, authorship of a famous line, Canadian maple leaf prize size, Huey Long’s congressional record, the origin of gospel, Daladier pronunciation, Capitol floor area and rooms, Conestoga wagon color, nuanced meanings of alumnus alumna and alumni, and William Jennings Bryan’s Cross of Gold speech date.
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North Pole
Canada
Huey Long
Congress
United States Capitol
Bryan
Fragmented historical notes on politics and culture
The text lists varied facts from a maple leaf contest win, a 1935 Senate filibuster by Huey Long, to definitions and pronunciations. It notes the Capitol’s 14 acre floor area with 430 rooms, color schemes cited by Seymour Dunbar, and a July 8 1896 Democratic convention speech leading to Bryan’s stampede.
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Huey P. Long
Senate
God
Seymour Dunbar
Chicago
Bryan
North Pole land claim dispute and Peary flag claim
The excerpt notes no nation holds land at the North Pole and cites Robert Edwin Peary hoisting the American flag on April 6, 1909. It also references lines from Sir Walter Scott's Marmion.
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North Pole
Robert Edwin Peary
Sir Walter Scott
Knee-ed Boogy Learnings From Fathers and School
A playful dialogue where Willie proudly recalls learning to say yes sir no sir yes ma am and no ma am from school and father. A naturalist claims ants talk to each other as a joke about spelling bees and clever payback.
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Willie
Pro proprietor abroad. secretary says lion hunt in Africa
In a brisk exchange a caller asks after the proprietor who is away in Africa hunting lions. The secretary confirms the trip but notes the proprietor saw the caller first through the window, adding a wry twist about a champion boxer and a silver lining.
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Africa
Radio Fiend Over Garden Wall Reception
A lighthearted exchange notes a loud clear broadcast of animal life from a garden wall last night. A bored neighbor adds a jokey remark about including his goat in the reception.
Log Cabins Aid Law Students At Duke University
Lawyers in Log Cabins Law students at Duke University Durham North Carolina find they can study and concentrate better amid rustic surroundings. Five log cabins in the Duke forest a few minutes walk from the law school and library house 32 students. Here they live and study during the academic year unhampered by customary campus distractions.
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Duke University
Durham
N. C
Duke Forest
Law School
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