Christmas Spirit and Civic Yuletide Cheer Across Boston
A reflective piece urges practical Christmas generosity toward hospital and prison inmates and orphans, recalling Dickens and Kipling. It cites Boston’s example last Christmas, when lights and a public tree brightened Beacon Street and Commonwealth Avenue, illustrating Christmas as a cosmopolitan festival rooted in Puritan New England and the creed of peace and good will to all.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jamestown
John Smith
England
Kipling
Yuletide
Boston
Beacon Street
Commonwealth Avenue
New England
Why not revive old customs in Christmas time
A nostalgic reflection laments modern excess and loss of simple holiday joys. It contrasts lavish gifts with simpler, shared memories like Tiny Tim and goose dinners, urging revival of sincere warmth over ostentation and luxury. It warns against conformity and the hollow practice of contemporary celebrations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Santa Claus
Tiny Tim
Scrooge
Baby Sister and a Wax Doll Christmas Gaffe
A humorous dialogue highlights a playful seasonal exchange about gifting a wax doll. The aunt questions the recipient’s taste while a misheard remark about a kiss under a lemon tree adds a comic miscommunication vibe.
British Pension Wives of Turks Improve Basra by Force
A British expeditionary corps administers Turkish civil pensions and allowances in Basra, funding pensions for retired Ottoman officials and Turkish prisoners of war families. The program funds roads, sanitation, and civic improvements while policing and commerce reforms proceed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louis Edgar Browne
Chicago News
Haxra
Arabia
Fnr
Turkey
Ashur
Basra
Ashur Creek
Lhe
Nod 4
Beiiah
America
Mohamed Akhised
Princess Baddwill Driven From Home by War
Princess Baddwill, once Lene bhy Denoen of a noted Boston society family, is forced by war to abandon her historic Boston home in Meschesy. She says the Hind’s plight is worse than Beagum’s, and seeks shelter after the crisis.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Princess Baddwill
Lene Bhy Denoen
Boston Society
Meschesy
Vast British war clothing needs loom large in supply figures
London reports reveal the war office faced immense task supplying socks and buttons, boots and greatcoats for an army swelling from 200,000 to over 4,000,000 in two months. Tables show textile output, woolen cloth, blankets, buttons, and leather gear required, with millions of yards produced and distributed to allies as the army adapts to modern warfare.
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London
War Office
Dritith
Htrle
France
Auist
W.quakx
Mieo
Wayne
Russia
Idaho News Briefs From Boise Twin Falls and More
A chaotic blend of Idaho notes reports a Boisy man Gartinar Aduma convicted in St Anthony and a $25,000 appropriation for a project to house a pool facility at the Bava Tree Springs. Payette figures, a 14 year old hit by a car in Boise, and a fire fatality in Twin Falls are listed alongside election tallies, turkey shipments from New Plymouth, a Pocatello hotel hold up, and a drive for a state standardization act. Deaths, court actions, and public notices intermingle with local crime and civic projects across the state.
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Gartinar Aduma
Boisy
Lucnir
St. Anthony
Bandera
Caldwall Ofpor & Worthbee
Falreen Fed
Sinte Prinim
Bava Tree
B. Compton
Payette
Hy Wow Wayor
Hugh Stane
Boise
Charles Smyth
New Plymouth
Portland
Seattle
N. B. Seritchdeld
Twin Falla
C. Conant
Second Idaho Infantry Regiment
Nogales
Nympa
Children's Home Finding & Aid Society
Oregon
Nampa
William M. Jackson
Surveyor General's Office
Haa
Crow
Pocatello
Charles Gilbe
Idaho
Wilkson
Hughes
Benson
Hanley
Boise Statesman
Chicago
Manuer Sing Lee
Se Wae
Wallace Vihar
Waleachia
Herman J. Roast
Mabel A. Rossi
Rossi
Socialiste
Debs
Commercial Club
Cristall
Rattlesnake
Caldwell
Methodist
New Methodist Church
Twin Falls
John Shaifer
Nving
Star
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Dickens
Cassie Epliqua Sachs Lyne
George Washington
Avraham Lincoln
Mary Jane
Inez Dorris
Mesopotamia
Fezzy Boy
Bawlogne
Eigty
India
Aim
Fusto
Gentine
Netun
Londin
Leeds
Balkan
Daughter OF the Sea
Wash
Evalyn Hansen
Evelyn
James Johnson
Idaho State
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