Dickens on Christmas With the Pickwickians
A literary chronicle extols Dickens wondrous Christmas scenes in The Pickwick Papers. It focuses on the Dingley Dell visit, Sam Weller and the fat boy, and Mr. Pickwick’s playful misadventures amid merriment and hospitality.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gay
Merry
Leas
Dingtey Dell
Fat Boy
Mr. Wickwick
Sai Weller
Pickwick
Felds
Mr. Weller
Sam
Aston
Long Walk for Santa as Fire Destroys Cleveland Home
Alfred Hammermeister trudges eight miles through snow to seek new toys after a Christmas tree fire destroyed his Cleveland home and affected his eight children. Fire occurred just before midnight as the tree lighting sparked the blaze.
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Cleveland
Alfred Hammermeister
Santa Claus
Mra
Hammermeister
Dickens Christmas at Manor Farm Recalls Old World Charm
A nostalgic Dickensian Christmas tale unfolds with Mr Pickwick and friends at Dingley Dell. The lively gathering features holly, mistletoe, music by fiddlers and a harp, and a jovial thwarted Santa mood, ending in a candlelit dawn and a quest for gifts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Weller
Dingley Dell
Pickwick
Mangleton
Ticktwick
Raitchen
Wardle
Christmas Ghost Hunt Returns From England to Washington
Washington society whispers of a Christmas ghost hunt as a fashionable hobby with mansions decked in ivy. The piece notes ghostly imports from England and stories of a buccaneer ghost aboard the Spanish main, famed for guarding stolen doubloons.
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Washington
England
William the Conqueror
Washington Star
Christmas sentiment on charity and justice in a commercialized age
The writer reflects on Christmas charity as only a temporary relief for poverty and misery. True equality and fraternity arise from justice, not sporadic gifts, and the holiday spirit should counter industrial greed rather than promote commercialism. Credits to New York. Mal
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Fay Dickens
Dickens
Kekwick
Stirt
Dingley li
New York
Bark Dere Santa Comes The Bargain at Home
A collage of holiday verses and snippets from Brooklyn Eagle and Collier’s, noting Christmas hymns about peace and stars, plus brief quotes on generosity and friendship. Includes scattered remarks from Kansas City Journal and a quip about confidential relationships.
Prayer to the Christ Child by Eugene Field
A historical fragment presents a prayer thanking the Christ Child and asking for peace charity and protection. It requests gentle guidance over earth and envisions angels singing and bells announcing Bethlehem birth. The verse invokes good will and moral renewal for all peoples.
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Bethlehem
Chrystchilde
Earth
Eugene ‘Field
How Many Bricks Have You Sent Away
A town reader is urged to consider bricks sent for a grand brick building in a distant metropolis. The piece notes the building claims to be the world’s largest monolithic structure, financed by dollars from small towns and individuals who may have unknowingly contributed. It highlights a mail order store behind the fundraiser and asks how many bricks the local population has contributed.
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Phero
Calla
S. A
Jim Tandy
Jockey Tricks and Maltese Serpent Tales
An article fragment discusses two kinds of legitimate racing tricks, including causing a rival to swerve and shallow whipwork. It shifts to Maltese superstitions about serpents linked to St Paul, describing stones, venomous tokens, and charms worn as pendants or dissolved in wine for protection.
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Jleft
New Orleans Times- Democrat
Taliemansle
Malta
Seth Hoy
St. Paul
Ion
Apostle
St Paul’s
Patriotism Question Echoes From Cincinnati Courier
Fragmentary line reads A True Patriot and asks Johnny what a patriot is. The Louisville Courier-Journal contains garbled references to a boy, a miss, and a baseball game incident with a ball going over a fence.
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Johnny
Louisville
Courier-Journal
Inconsistency Meaning in Rural Speech
A comic fragment presents a dialectal question about the meaning of inconsistency. A speaker asks what a certain phrase means and contrasts it with a man who blames a barking dog for nocturnal disturbance, reflecting humorous rural talk.
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Wreddy
Also Mentioned on This Page
Oortet
the Pickwickians
Santa
Mr” Pickwick Wert
Bobby
Mamma
Brooklyn Eagle
Angela
Christ
Margaret
E. Sangster
Collier's
Kansas
City. Journal
Jean Paul Richter
Nebraska
FarmerEditors
Fiotak
Sam? McMelvey
Braska
Sidney
Nebraska Farmer “of
Lincoln
Snebs
McKelvey
Bdster
Meription
Tele
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