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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1919
Page
3
The readable text is garbled with no identifiable people places organizations or events to summarize into a coherent news item.
The piece reflects on Christmas as a concept that stirs compassion and generosity. It discusses how giving embodies the giver's spirit, citing Sir Launfal and the leper tale to illustrate humility and devotion, and how inner richness outshines worldly riches during the season.
The piece links rising turkey prices to the upcoming Thanksgiving. It notes supply concerns and public curiosity about how different households will cope with higher costs. An unrelated fragment mentions neighborhood bids and a careless driver incident in passing.
Practical guide for after school window cleaning aimed at boys and girls in Lorain County. Advises using two clean chamois, ammonia-water solution, and a two-person team to wash windows efficiently. Recommends sliding scale pricing and marketing to neighbors, with weekly or monthly service options.
A Boy and Girl Scouts feature promotes developing five senses for woodcraft. It urges training sight by long-distance landmark spotting and ear, smell, taste, and touch awareness through daily outdoor practice. The piece cites observation games and progressive distant goals.
The article traces Christmas fixing to December 25 in the middle of the fourth century. It notes earlier pagan associations and mentions Pope Telesphorus and Julius I as key figures in the shift. By the century's end, Christendom widely accepted December 25 as the birth date.
The industry begins cutting in October with December as the last carload shipment. Five men prepare a tree for the market priced around three cents. Large markets such as Pittsburgh Cleveland Detroit Chicago Cincinnati Boston New York and Philadelphia receive shipments via direct distribution.
The piece describes how Christmas trees from Northern Vermont New Hampshire and parts of Maine reach big city markets. It covers cutting crews loads freight challenges box car versus freight car costs and the sourcing from mountain districts. It notes two main varieties balsam fir and spruce and details labor roles foreman cutters gatherers and loaders with earnings per day and seasonal timing.
Warsaw dispatch reports Leon Trotsky says China will be used to aid a Bolshevik drive in Western Europe. Chinese troops recruited at 4000 daily are trained at a military school for a spring assault on Poland, with expectations of a Bolshevik revolution in China.
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