Crime and Portrait Clues In Paris Boulevards Tale
Bernardez pursues a suspect in the Boulevard de Clichy case while a piano of clues unfolds. A suspect’s portrait of Jacques Dantin surfaces in a shop window as police probe links to a murdered man and a theater scandal.
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Bernardet
Jacques Dantin
Revere
Tilegat Theaslon
Mme Tain
Bernardez
Boulevard de Clichy
Feporiitanal
Jomiidet
Talece
Paul Peller
Annie Province
Yoaterdas
Paul Rodier
Corti
Rodler
Parbley
Dantin
Moniche
M. Leriche
Jupiter
Sitmons
Morgue
Dee Hans-Enfanty
Bertere
Wetdormican
Yanl Yen
Sore Porat
Pasate
Interdocles
AeeNniniaks
Cerialile
Lena Chott
Guaiel Givartean
Clouet
Sosar
Palatine
Mateur
Ternardet
Jarques Dantin
Ton
Bres
Jacoive Dantha
Jacques Pantin Munsett
Oteer
Worman
Hannah and the Moonshine Banjo in a Dixie Poem
A fragmented dialect poem describes Hannah in a moonlit Dixie setting with a banjo, fireflies, honeysuckle glade, and night sounds. It weaves images of love, music, and a moonlit landscape. The excerpt ends with a magazine note about a theater show and a reader quote.
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Hannah
Hannan
Tanjo
Margaret Belle Houston
The Yule Log Origin in Scandinavian Mythology
Boston Herald traces the Yule log to Juul feasts honoring Thor in Norse myth. It notes the ash tree’s link to Odin and the Christmas fagot in Devonshire, plus Druids venerating Tutanus and mistletoe’s sacred threefold leaves.
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Boston Herald
England
Herrick
Tatanus
Baal
Tutanus
Bor
Odin
Aska
Devonshire
Bavaria
Bohemia
A Siberian Superstition
A Pall Mall Gazette note describes a Siberian belief that during the Christmas dawn beasts in stalls receive human speech and prophetic powers. The superstition is linked by some to the nativity story and persists among peasants today.
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Pall Mall Gazette
Siberia
German Goose Stuffing Recipe From Vintage Menu
German stuffing combines bread crumbs apples raisins and almonds with parboiled goose liver gage rind lemon salt and onion. Mix until moist then lightly stuff the crop and body to avoid soggy pressing for a gastronomic delight.
An Eye for the Present
A humorous dialogue from Baltimore American features Miss Smoothe delaying a marriage answer until next year. Mr Softleigh pleads, but she jokes that an engagement announcement would ruin Christmas gifts from other suitors.
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Baltimore
Christmas customs across faiths and folklore
The text surveys varied Christmas beliefs across communities noting warm stockings for poor children, feasting in many nations, Coptic thoughts on beasts, Yule log origins, Islamic respect yet non-observance, and references to Jesus in Muslim tradition. It blends cultural views and historical notes with dated remarks.
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England
Mohammed
Jesu-ben-Miriam
Up Boston Way New Lippincott
A caller uses a sly question about Santa to a girl who refuses old myths. She braces herself with dignity and a book by Ibsen, then collects her things and leaves the room.
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Boston Way
New Lippincott
Santa Claus
Kris Kringle and Santa Claus Tale Told by Grandpa
Teddy asks for a Christmas story and Grandpa recounts how in America Santa Claus delivers gifts by chimney while Kris Kringle, from the old country, travels by sea and visits houses at night. The tale explains differences between Santa and Kris Kringle, their kindness to children, and their insistence children go to bed early.
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Teddy
Grandpa
America
Sante China
Gounley
Krix Kringle
Krim Kringle
Kris Kringle
Boyd
Kris Krinigle
Digene
Atralt
Kris Kylogte
Iria
Santa Claus
Haile
Keene
Alwys
Dancu
Roman Christmas in Rome A London view of Eternal City festivities
The piece portrays Rome as the gayest domestic scene during Christmas with grand ceremonies and family reunions. It notes Rome's gastronomic focus on the cenone, lavish shop windows and confectioners cases, and references the early adoption of Christmas trees by the royal household, influenced by English and Teutonic customs.
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London Mail
Rome
Tyse
Caput Mundt
England
Naples
Teutonia
Christmas Game at the table emulates a playful challenge
The San Francisco Evening Post describes a comic Christmas game where participants write a capital D on paper while standing at a table and try to swing the right foot opposite to the pencil. It notes attempts like starting letter first or foot first and suggests laughter or profanity as outcomes.
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Gma
Web
Melanie
Montmarie
San Francisco Evening Post
The Innocent Wisdom of Youth and Hope in Harper’s Weekly
Poem by SW Howells on youth, hope, love, and foretold coming, blending mystic devotion with reflective doubt. Also a holiday luncheon menu lists celery soup with whipped cream, timbales, lobster sauce, eggs Newburg, fried chicken, scalloped potatoes, celery salad, ice cream with cherries.
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SW. D. Howells
Harper's Weekly
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Rie
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Enby & Chinwra
Erauly
Liege
Teitin Wien
Phos
Saul
Rman
Ealigie
Royere
Dan Morgue
Rémott
M. Ginory
Palais
Dinck
M. Pee
Philadelphia Ledger
Spring Garden Street
Vatican
Philadelphia
Santy
Brake
Cromwell
Success. Magazine
Merry Widow
Charles
Cromwall
Santa
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