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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1916
Page
6
A reflective guide urges careful daily wrapping of gifts with personalized greeting cards. It emphasizes attractive paper, ribbons, and labels to convey thoughtfulness, avoid last minute rushes, and prevent delays at the post office.
Mrs Van Spender tells Mrs Climber Lucia di Lammermoor is a great favorite of wine during an opera party. Climber replies she has never met her. The remark appears in the New York World.
A Kansas City Journal piece argues women can excel in household and clerical tasks. It notes women maintain organized records such as book stacks and a mental card index, suggesting speed and accuracy in managing information and shopping.
Fatty Erte, Fades Givens, and Serenene headline a visiting burlesque and vaudeville program at the local center in Virginia. The event promises lively acts and a familiar variety show vibe for audiences seeking stage entertainment.
Practical gift ideas by A NEELY HALL focus on quick home projects. The milk-card board attaches to door hooks and uses screws to hang milk cards, with patterns adjusted to card size. Readers are guided to bevel edges and assemble strip A to secure the card.
A fragment describes making a wooden board for card rests with shellac or paint, mounting hooks and hanger screws, plus constructing a safety razor blade handle. It also details a match box holder on a shelf with blocks and patterns for back boards, and ends with whimsical Christmas sketches and comic dialogue about New Year resolutions and mistletoe parties.
James J. Montague reflects on the season and the longing of poor children to glimpse and possess holiday toys. The piece imagines an angel removing poverty and a future dream where a store would let visiting kids take toys, a wish that contrasts with harsh cold and thin clothes.
A historical note describes era drod waenail also called wassall bowl as ancient Briton beverage. It details a medieval Oxford method mixing Lisbon sugar warp beer nutmeg ginger sherry and beer with toasted bread soaking for hours to create a potent festive drink.
The Christmas dinner evolved into a grand meal through the centuries, with writers shaping customs and beverages. Henry VII popularized the boar’s head at his Christmas feast, an observance echoed at Oxford and in Washington Irving’s Old Christmas.
In Oberammergau Germany a sacred Christmas pageant centers on a guardian angel who brings the tree to a table on Christmas Eve, rings a bell, and blesses obedient children. Saint Nicholas, an angel in disguise, visits homes asking if children have been good and leaves fruits and candies or a stick based on the answer.
In The American Magazine the tale of Andrew Carnegie's rise recalls a Pennsylvania Railroad incident. As a telegraph operator under Colonel Thomas A. Scott, Carnegie sent out telegrams in Scott's name during a wreck blockade, risking rule violations but clearing the tracks. Scott later appointed him private secretary, and Carnegie rose to lead after Scott’s retirement.
In a holiday plant guide the red berried favorites appear, highlighting holly trees and aucubas from Holland as the most beautiful, with archaias, Christmas peppers, Jerusalem cherry, otshelte orange, ponderosa lemon, and trailing partridge berries grown in glass bowls, catching attention in America.
A housing program offers quick financing to build a residence. The lender pledges ready funds to eligible borrowers, aiming to streamline construction and reduce delays in project completion.
A motor hearse and ambulance with fifty horsepower has been purchased. Mr. Harper will respond to emergency calls within fifty miles of Sidney to convey the sick or injured to or from doctors, trains, or other locations.
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