12 Dec 1918
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Newspaper
The Alma Record
Location
Alma, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1918
Page
1
A playful poem depicts Santa at a military camp delivering gifts to sleeping soldiers. Santa moves through huts with a bowing smile, naming recipients as parcels and boxes are distributed. The scene ends with Merry Christmas and a good night atmosphere.
In wartime, the piece stresses preserving the Christmas spirit and moral resolve. It urges charity and kindness to bolster morale, noting that acts of generosity support civilization, liberty, and national resolve despite casualties and hardship.
A commercial traveler offers a Beloved bribe to a Scotsman in a discussion about a hardware consign ment. The Scot refuses and proposes two tasks as a condition, citing the Christmas present as motivation while noting a bribe would be refused.
A fragmentary tale recounts Old Crusty and a distressed child in a snowy neighborhood. The miserly figure wrestles with memories while the surrounding crowd and a searching brother contrast with a hopeful, tender desire for a small puppet gift.
A Japan Times editor rails at dire telephone service and recounts a farcical tale. A Kamtown woman phoned from Token, caught the next train, chased a cat, and reached her destination hours late, illustrating the era’s telephonic chaos.
The clove tree was introduced to the western world and grown widely over recent years. Plantations formed in islands like Mauritius under early colonial auspices, with European interests driving expansion and production into the Indian Ocean region.
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