A Christmas Meditation on Gifts and Peace
The piece critiques material gift giving and urges a Christ Child gift of peace and good will. It notes Christmas burdens, contrasts cheer with strain, and suggests daily kindness and joy as the true holiday offering. It mentions Volunteers of America and Santa Claus outreach in cities.
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Rachel
Aine
North Pole
Christus O
Earth
Seillig
Santa Claus
Volunteers of America
Ballington Booth
Salvation Army
Kris Kringle
Christmas Family Advice Card
A humorous Christmas vignette offering family guidance to Papa, Mamma, Miss Belle, Little Willy, Jimmy Jones, and Baby. The verses joke about holiday stresses, gifts, and playful mischief including a disappearing gun and a parlor rug mishap.
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Papa—K
Santa Claus
Miss Belle
Little Willy
Jimmy Jones
Santa
Mamma
Sheep receipts world record broken in South Omaha
South Omaha set a new world record with 69,279 sheep receipts on October 11, records show the city again leading in livestock arrivals.
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Omaha
South Omaha
Seek to join America People urge sale of Danish West Indies
In Copenhagen on December 8 the islanders renewed demands to sell the Danish West Indies to the United States. The cabinet is unlikely to initiate talks, facing Rigsdagen opposition, though ministers are not opposed to a sale. Queen Louise favors keeping the islands.
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Daish West Indies
United States
Copenhagen
Danish West Indies
Louise
Packers Ask For Delay In Prosecution
Counsel for indicted meat packers petitioned the federal district court to withhold further prosecutions on the charges in the indictments until the equity suit before Judge Grosscup dissolving the National Packing Company, described by the government as the Boer trust, and linked to Armours Swift Morri ses.
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Chicago
Federal District Court
In Equity
Grosscup
United States Circuit Court
National Packing Company
Boer Trust
Armours, Swifts
Morrisses
Bryan Links Liquor Interests to Nebraska Legislature
Charles W. Bryan warned that liquor interests will push to organize the Nebraska senate and house to defeat county option and the initiative and referendum. He said it is important for welfare of the state and the Democratic party that county option Democrats organize the legislature.
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Lincoln
Oklahoma
Texas
Charles W. Bryan
Senate
House
Nebraska
Amateurs’ Violin Recital Closes With Gratitude
A trio of amateur violinists delivered a lengthy performance. The hostess thanks them warmly as the concert ends and guests depart.
Billy Finds a Christmas Feast in the Australian Hills
A young aboriginal boy Billy travels from a harsh camp to a magical garden near Yarra Glen. There he meets a blue fairy who grants him a dream Christmas with fairies, a magic opal, and a charmed boomerang. A goblin steals the opal, but Billy recovers it and helps the gardener reunite with his lost daughter before returning home as tribe chief.
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Billy
Ole
Santa Claus
Yarra Glen
Sum
Bily
Blue Fairy
Darky Boy
Darky
Christmans
Cate
Boomeran
Jily
Lesilo's Weekly
Why Not These For the Girl
List describes a variety of women’s accessories and gifts including a signet ring bangle bracelet sash ball bow postcard album and other items such as a camera leather desk set and roller skates. The compilation reads like an illustrated catalog of present possibilities.
King Arthur Christmas Feast at Camelot
The New York Evening Mail poem recounts King Arthur hosting a Christmas feast at Camelot in honor of the Virgin born Christ. Merlin observes Lancelot and Guinevere with a winged child present, and the king proclaims Christ is the Virgin's son while Merlin senses a nameless heathen god.
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Ing Arthur
Camelot
Christ
Merlin
Seer
Lancelot
Guinevere
Arthur
Lake
Love
MG Arthur
New York Evening Mail
Making Appropriate Gifts in a Prosperous Year
Cyrus P. Jones urges thoughtful philanthropy in Success as Americans prepare Christmas gifts for home and abroad. He notes overgiving and ill suited causes like the $20,000 freworks shipment to Irish famine relief and warns against improvised gifts such as three cheers for striking workers. He calls for choosing gifts by usefulness and relevance to those in need.
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Cyrus P. Jones
America
New York
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Eliza Archard Conner
American Press
Charles Bryan
King Arthur
Theodosia Garrison
King the Graybeard
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