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Newspaper
Shiner Gazette
Location
Shiner, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1962
Page
2
A Corpus Christi family, Mr. and Mrs. Victor Blaschke and daughters, spent Christmas Day with Mrs. Mary Haverda. The statistic notes that eighty two percent of the nation's people twelve years and over read a newspaper on an average day.
The article notes centuries of debate over when Christ was born with no consensus, except that it was not December 25. It traces proposed dates across months and cites historical calendar changes and Roman traditions like Saturnalia as possible reasons for the chosen date. Christmas is a celebration, but the exact birthday remains uncertain.
The first state to abolish capital punishment was Michigan in 1847. The Benedictine Order began at Monte Cassino in AD 529. Fernando Magellan, a Portuguese navigator, discovered the Philippines on March 16, 1521.
Progress on screwworm eradication described with sterile flies dispersed across 73,000 square miles in Texas 7,000 in New Mexico and 10 000 along the Mexican border. About 77 576 450 flies were released last week, roughly half males, reared at a central facility funded by livestock producers.
Miss Mayme Merseburger spends holidays with friends in Mathis Beeville and Tynan. Mr and Mrs Travis Effen berger and son from Nacogdoches arrived for the holidays. Mr and Mrs J J Elsik and family of Corpus Christi visited the Fred Ulcak home enroute home from Taylor where they saw his father John Elsik. About 5500 people visit the White House daily. In Finland one in a hundred is illiterate.
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