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Newspaper
Shiner Gazette
Location
Shiner, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1906
Page
8
A Victorian guide offers Christmas party ideas for children and guests with games like Blow Out the Candle, The Barrel Pie, The Bobbing Apple, Musical Chair, Charades, A Topsy Turvy Concert, and Whose Are the Eyes. It praises Santa traditions and emphasizes shared play, costumes, and playful storytelling with rules and forfeits to heighten merriment.
Washington hosts an international Christmas scene as embassies from Italy Germany Mexico Russia Peru and others display varied customs. Festivities feature Yule logs nativity tableaux gifts and games reflecting each nation’s traditions and the sacred meaning of Noel.
Recipes for coloring confections with red yellow green and white dyes. Red uses cochineal cream of tartar alum and water boiled in an earthen vessel. yellow steep saffron in cold water. green press spinach or beet leaves strain and color with alum. white uses almond paste rose water or thick cream.
In Yonkers a humorous tale unfolds as a suitor vows a kiss for each stroke of the midnight clock. He explains fourteen clocks across surrounding rooms chimed at different times, making the count unpredictable and the gesture charming rather than stingy.
A response asserts Sir John Moore’s burial was not at Camas. The fragmentary dialogue suggests confusion and lacks verifiable details or clear historical context.
A tested home carpet cleaning method uses soap, bark, borax, Fuller’s earth, alcohol, ammonia and chloroform. Boil bark in water, dissolve solids, add remaining ingredients, and apply a cupful per area to create lather without soaking the carpet while scrubbing then scraping and drying the treated area.
The article defines domestic economy as the science of the home and argues it is a woman’s knowledge. It explains the misperceptions linking it to cookery or drudgery and urges girls to learn cooking, budgeting, and home management while noting books alone cannot teach it.
Drain canned peaches and cut into pieces. Mix flour baking powder and salt add beaten egg milk and peaches. Pour into a greased loaf tin top with peach pieces, butter bits and sugar. Bake until done and serve with whipped cream or plain.
Combine half a pound each of rice and currants. Wash rice, wrap in cloth, boil in cold water for an hour, then add currants after untying. Re-tie and boil again for another hour or longer. Serve with sweet sauce. For custards add currants to the mix.
A fragment quotes Mr. Power of the Press in The Imorat Magazine urging men to be honestly just half or three quarters square as soldiers with a Gatling gun pounding at the door. The piece uses vivid nautical dialect and a sharp moral cue on courage and deception.
Readable fragments suggest a discussion on how literature shapes thought and behavior with unclear details. Mentions influence, gate, and personal notes, indicating a literary or critical essay snippet with incomplete phrases.
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