What’s in a Name and a Garden Romance
A quirky narrative follows Sally and Jack as they swap favorite names in a garden, hinting at love and engagement. Their exchanges reveal character, with Sally unsure about past crushes while Jack nervously contemplates revealing news to Bob Waite and others. The tale closes with reflections on names and a quirky aside about left handedness and stage entrances.
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Sally
Jack
Salty
Giyra
Jack Woods
Myra
Bob Waite
Bob
Robert
Ana
Bill Farnham
Larry March
Christmas Hollowed Memory in a Town Comeback
In a tense dialogue Martha Banning Thomas recalls a home town, a looming break in to a house, and a wish to return to better days. Two men, Slinky and Ratty, debate loyalty and risk as a Christmas morning visit to a church offers a glimmer of redemption and a chance to reclaim old values.
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Slinky
Ratty
Rou
Martha Banning Thomas
I Want To Be Wanted Pop Wheeler Story
A first person tale follows a scrappy red headed runaway who runs a hot dog joint and papers with Bozo the dog. He finds a hungry stranger named Pop who becomes a father figure, guiding him toward college and respect. The pair build a modest business and a sense of belonging as Pop’s presence changes the narrator’s path.
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Roboty
Pop
A.m
Bozo
Jack
Through the Storm on the Betsy Lee to Christmas Home
Bill Parker pilots the Betsy Lee through a fierce squall and ice en route to home for Christmas. Clouds rise to twenty thousand feet as rain and hail lash the craft and a tailspin looms before a moonlit calm finally arrives. The narrator, Joelle Webb Pearson, notes a headline about another plane crash.
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Lucy
Daddy
Bill Parker
Betsy
Betsy Lee
Bill
Joelle Webb Pearson
Western Newspaper Union
Christmas tree superstitions and warding off lightning
A historical note explains Christmas tree customs about shadows on the wall during lighting. A headless shadow omen is said to foretell death before the next Christmas. After the tree burns, a partly burned stick is kept as a charm to avert lightning.
Journey to Bethlehem Not Like Today’s Travel
A reflective piece contrasts Mary and Joseph’s arduous Nazareth to Bethlehem journey with modern travel. It envisions their reliance on a donkey, describes landmarks around the route, and muses on the prophecy and lasting impact of Jesus’s birth as Mary might have foreseen it.
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Bethlehem
Nazareth
Mary
Joseph
Caesar
How Christmas Tree May Be Kept Green
The U S Forest Service advises simple home methods to keep a Christmas tree green and fragrant through the holidays. Use a wide mouth container with about a gallon of water and a solution of citric acid malic acid or pectin in water with calcium carbonate added. Replenish as the tree uses water, and trim the butt to improve uptake. Cool damp storage before setting the tree in a warm room also helps retain moisture.
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U. S. Forest Service
First Christmas Carol When Christ Was Born se DXA SARA
Frances Grinstead reflects on the holiday carol tradition from its Bethlehem origins to St Francis of Assisi and modern public singing. She notes carols like Away in a Manger Silent Night and Joy to the World cross churches theaters schools and radio to spread Christmas joy, faith, and unity.
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Earth
Bethlehem
Christ
St. Francis of Assisi
Herald Angels
Frances Grinstead
Old coat joke in Christmas tale exchange
Bunny asks her husband for a new coat for Christmas. Leopard asks what he said. Snake replies she had no business shedding her old one.
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Snake
Bunny
Leopard
Hampshire mummers perform ancient Christmas play without script
Farm laborers in Hampshire travel troupe perform a Christmas play believed to be about 1000 years old. They wear costumes crafted from colored wallpaper, and no written script exists for the performance.
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Hampshire
Christmas Cheer or Condensed Trouble Quote by Uncle Eben
A pithy holiday remark frames Christmas cheer as an expensive, troublesome form of celebration. Uncle Eben critiques festive excess, labeling it as only a condensed burden rather than joy. The line reflects a wary, folksy voice on yuletide expenditures.
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Uncle Eben
Pain killer developed in New York college study
A new long lasting local anesthetic called neothesos is reported by Burt and Rennie in the Journal of Surgery Gynecology and Obstetrics. One shot of a procaine mix with French almond oil yields two to three weeks of insensibility and enables many patients to walk and work sooner after operations.
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New York
College of Physicians and Surgeons
Journal of Surgery
C. V. Burt
M. D
American College of Surgeons
J. Gordon Rennie
Richmond
Celebs Cook Contest Dishes With Named NY Figures
Twenty seven prominent New Yorkers prepared themed dishes such as Apple Mess and Paula Boula Bear in a men's all gas cooking contest sponsored by the American Culinary Federation. Heavy ranges supplied by the American Gas Association aided the cooks as notable figures including Walter Slezak and Gelett Burgess appeared in illustrated action.
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Apple Mess
Paula Boula Bear
American Culinary Federation
Friends of Escofher Society
Clinton
American Gas Association
Walter Slezak
Pau S. L. Hilken
Gelett Burgess
Jeff
H. C. Brentzer
U.S.A
Clifford MacGregor
Jolly Bill Steinke
Will B. Johnstone
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