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Newspaper
Sikeston Herald
Location
Sikeston, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Dec 25, 1941
Page
7
A comical protest signed Disgusted “Youth” asserts babies under one year can enjoy Christmas. The piece features a mock poll of 1000 babies claiming 987 affirm preference for gifts, jokes about toys, clothing, cribs, and even life insurance as practical baby presents.
Davie and his mother face Christmas disappointment until a reindeer sighting leads to a hidden house. The truth unfolds when Davie meets Phil Philips Bentley, formerly Phyllis Bentley, kidnapped on Thanksgiving and presumed dead. Police action follows as Jock springs into action to bring the child home before telegraph deadlines.
The article traces diverse Christmas practices in early American colonies along the Atlantic. Southern colonies kept English customs with feasting and prayer, New England Puritans discouraged pagan rites, middle colonies blended origins from England Germany Holland and Sweden, with family reunions and festivity shaping a national practice shared today across the United States.
The Massachusetts General Court in Boston on May 11 1659 enacted a law fining five shillings for observing Christmas. It denounced celebrating the day by labor forebearance feasting or any other act and imposed the fine on offenders to the county authorities.
The line humorously admonishes not to wish for a doctor with the same fevered anticipation as Santa Claus, urging calm and practical thinking over fevered hunger for medical help. This reflects a folksy, cautious mood in the Fair Warning excerpt.
Children from one to four years enjoy noise makers. A suggested set uses six baking powder tins filled with small objects like buttons nails paper clips pebbles or screws. Tins are cemented shut and painted in bright colors to prevent swallowing hazards and ensure visibility.
The article traces Saint Nicholas as a fourth century bishop of Myra who showed piety from birth and refused nourishment on fast days yet was not a recluse. It notes his father’s wealth and his role as a dispenser of goods, and that his feast began December 6 before shifting to Christmas Day amid medieval church suppression of the Boy Saint festivities.
Oklahoma University football coach Dewey Luster declares national defense outlived its usefulness and urges calling it offense. He says the team must carry the ball and score, insisting defense cannot score.
The text tracks the origins of Christmas celebration from A.D. 98 through A.D. 340 with Pope Telesphorus ordering a feast, St. Cyril dating Christ's birth to December 25, and Pope Julius establishing the Rome festival on that date, later adopted universally in Christendom.
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