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Newspaper
Sullivan Union
Location
Sullivan, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1905
Page
10
The article highlights the Christmas spirit aboard American warships worldwide. Sailors bring festive cheer no matter where they are, often trading fur for po poises attire as they celebrate the Yuletide aboard ships in navy yards or at sea.
The article describes Christmas aboard American warships on foreign stations. It details varied decorations using bamboo and banana leaves, shipboard dining and a noon Dec 24 start, religious services, and festive contests like rowing, boxing, pie eating, and games. Mail distribution follows, with “Not to be opened before Christmas” inscribed on parcels. Officers often dine ashore while crews celebrate aboard, and a concert or minstrel show concludes festivities.
The text describes festive measures aboard a ship where sailors lavishly celebrate Christmas. It notes oyster soup roast turkey and cranberry sauce as part of the feast, with prizes for pastry speed and an atmosphere of merriment amid duties and discipline. It mentions a captain facing a deputation over merit marks as the day unfolds.
The Earl of Lonsdale sent a 576 pound Christmas pie to King George III. It housed 9 geese 2 ducks 4 fowls and many other fowl game plus 28 pounds of butter and 3 bushels of flour. The tale echoes the nursery rhyme about twenty four black birds baked in a pie.
In London last Christmas, gifts of radium were popular with Infinites mal particles included. Prices ranged from 10 to 50 dollars. A spinthariscope instrument held the radium particle under a lens, and in a dark room the viewer could see flashing lights through the eyepiece.
The Union offers waterproof hunting notices in large print suitable for farm posting against trespassers and hunters. These notices provide durable, weather resistant wording to mark properties as protected from unauthorized hunting activity.
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