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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1916
Page
2
Headquarters for Christmas shopping at McKean Bros The Gift Store invites customers to select presents now and have items laid aside. The stock includes cut glass silverware and a range from inexpensive to best quality gifts signaling a urged early buy.
A Few Suggestions Link Buttons Jewel Box For the family present what could be more appropriate than a Lyon and Healy Piano or a Columbia Graphonola. Spend a few minutes in our store. Mr. W. H. Wiker, Registered Optometrist, has charge of our Optical Department McKEAN BROS., Sidney, Nebr.
The notice lists subscription rates for The Telegraph including one year with postage paid and mentions Nebraska Sidney post office registration and second class matter terms.
Professor Huxley is quoted describing men as a mix of horse perviousness and camel malice with an angel in tow. A new cancer book promises clear explanations and non surgical treatment, based on sixteen years experience and ten thousand cases, free by mail from O A Johner M D Kansas City. Realty note: Sidney property with Osborn and Jorgenson.
The Providence Journal notes continued advocacy for conserving timber and reports northern forests saw reduced losses during Christmas. In the Adirondacks, $1,000,000 worth of trees were cut without damage by selectively removing only young growth. The shift from denuding to selective cutting saved mature timber and reflects late but growing awareness of conservation benefits.
Thom as North recounts a Christmas scene opposite a major church where the poor waited for charitable relief on Christmas Day. After the crowds dispersed, the same beggars quarrelled loudly over civic matters, hurling oaths and curses while denouncing each other as impostors.
The piece notes that Christmas gifts now travel in decorative wrappings, with cards designed inside or on the wrapping. Designs include a miniature tree, plum pudding, a Merry Christmas scroll, a holly border for children, Santa Claus, a green holly wreath with a red bow, and a mistletoe card for the best girl.
A cheerful verse urges readers to begin Christmas shopping early to avoid crowds. It playfully warns against procrastination, encourages buying for relatives, and suggests finishing gifts now to enjoy a peaceful holiday season without last minute stress.
Sidney Lumber Co promotes a new home building financing plan offering percent money for buyers. The ad highlights flexible terms and quick approval aimed at helping homeowners secure construction loans.
The December festival was the principal yearly event in Anglo Saxon England. Kings hosted great men in splendor and showed hospitality to the poor. Alfred the Great legislated twelve holy days after Nativity for Christmas celebration, and his strict observance helped him defeat the Danes.
A Christmas poem excerpt by Willis Boyd Allen from Harper's Magazine contrasts fierce winter with a plea for room for the Christ Child and the shepherds. It laments distrust and greed, mournful homes, and war as a dying people cry out, seeking light amid gloom.
The piece urges festive decorating with holly and greens and suggests using small Santas perched over doors or windows. It promotes Santa motifs on dance orders and seals, noting store bought options or home crafted water colored Santas as alternatives.
The troupe faced hard luck with nightly receipts of 50 to 100 dollars while chasing salaries. They scraped to Wayville on Christmas night and drew 24.75 at the show, most from the gallery. The town manager offered supper and the night’s receipts, claiming bundles he gave the kid once belonged to his own son, ending with a woman crying as the tale closes.
Holiday Time describes Belgium’s wartime Christmas as austere with no carols or trees. Advent abstinence lingered, and old beliefs persist in rural parts. Young women bring candles to wells at midnight to glimpse future husbands, and a single extinguished candle is seen as signaling a guest's death.
A period newspaper blurb notes a furniture sale at the Essig Store with a poetic Christmas nod. It references Nancy Byrd Turner and a church and invites readers to visit for items titled Christmas and winter decor.
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