Birthplace of Santa Claus Celebrated in Moore Memorials
A long look at Dr Clement Clarke Moore and his Christmas poem, The Night Before Christmas, and how his house near Chelsea Square faced demolition. The article highlights Moore's life, the poem’s origins, and the annual Christmas observances honoring him at the Moore plot and St Peter's Church.
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Elmo Scott Watson
New York
Tillie Hart
Santa Claus
Clement ©. Moore
Doctor Moore
Benjamin Moore
Columbia University
Washington
Alexander Hamilton
Aaron Burr
Clement
Moore
General Theological Seminary
Jeffer
St. Nicholas
Newport
St. Luke’s Church
Hudson Street
Chapel of the Intercession
Trinity Parish
Chelsea Square
Milo H. Gates
Broadway
One Hundred and Fifty-fifth Street
Bethlehem
Alfred Tennyson Dickens
Charles Dickens
St. Peter's Episcopal Church
Twentieth Street
Night Before Christmas Poem Recited in Household
A classic Christmas verse depicts a quiet home as St Nicholas arrives in a sleigh with eight reindeer. The stock stockings are filled, the children dream of sugar plums, and the narrator wishes a merry Christmas to all.
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St. Nicholas
Mama
Lin
St. Nick
Dasher
Dancer
Prancer
Vixen
Comet
Cupid
Clement C. Moore
Buckeye Laboratories
St.Clair Ave
Cleveland
Rio Grande Valley
Texas
United States
T. Jackson
Edinburg
Cabiil Import Co
Broadway
New York
Christmas Spirit Across Climes and Times
Katherine Edelman writes that Christmas brings joy in snowbound regions and warm climates alike. The message honors universal cheer, friendship, and goodwill, noting the spirit transcends climate, country, and conditions.
Christmas All Year Message on Forgetting Enmities
The passage urges embracing perpetual goodwill by choosing to forget enmities beyond December. It suggests a continuous Christmas spirit if people commit to lasting reconciliation throughout the year.
Burial of Traveler Gen Robt E Lees War Horse Described
Mrs Margaret Letcher Showell recalls the burial of Traveler at Washington and Lee University in Lexington Virginia. Custis Lee helped lay the horse to rest under a tree in a ravine behind the campus with a lime sealed wooden casket. The skeleton was later mounted in Lee Memorial chapel after 1907 funds.
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Lexington
Robert E. Lee
Margaret Letcher Showell
Letcher Avenue
Showell
Washington and Lee University
Gen
Custis Lee
Pretty Divorc ee Seeks Ideal Mate
Omaha Nebraska Laverne Mae Robinson a twenty nine year old divorc ee seeks love after five marriages none of which she loved she travels toward Florida hoping to fall in love again She prefers a blond older man who is tall neat and a good worker She has split with her fifth husband Frank L Robinson a forty year old Omaha salesman and fears Omaha men but plans a Florida trip in a month to find romance Her marriage history spans five husbands with Genevieve her daughter from 1918 and a pattern of non support and annulments continuing through 1928
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Omaha
Neb
Laverne Mae Robinson
Mrs. Robinson
Frank L. Robinson
Florida
Laverne Long
Nebraska
Gilmore
Edward Bursick
Fred Burton
Genevieve
Burton
Bursick
French Rail Mileage Second in Europe
French rail system covers 41,727 kilometers and ranks second in Europe by mileage after Germany. It leads in net profits due to higher financial receipts, with France earning 28 percent of gross capital receipts versus lower shares in other nations.
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Europe
Paris
Germany
Italy
France
Belgium
England
Switzerland
Centennial of Turbine Invention Goes Largely Unmarked
The 1930 centennial of the hydraulic turbine is to be celebrated. Fourneyron is largely ignored in major encyclopedias and by some engineers despite refining and generalizing turbine use. Marcel Desprez, a French inventor, first envisioned transporting electrical energy, yet died poor and unrecognized.
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Paris
France
Fourneyron
Marcel Desprez
Desprez
Azulina fuel from sugar aimed at Pernambuco mills
A new motor fuel named Azulina gains use in Brazil as sugar mill owners in Pernambuco form a corporation to exploit an ether and alcohol blend derived from cane. The byproducts from sugar production, usually discarded, become the basis for this alcohol based fuel in Pernambuco and neighboring states.
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Brazil
Rio de Janeiro
Pernambuco
Sub Inventor Honored Home Now Is Museum
Westbrook Connecticut opens the home of David Bushnell a Revolutionary War officer and inventor of the torpedo and submarine as a museum. Exhibits include what is claimed to be the first submarine the American Turtle. Bushnell later became a physician and schoolmaster in Georgia after the war.
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Westbrook
Conn
David Bushnell
Bushnell
Georgia
Medicine Man Potions Still Used by Indians
Milwaukee reports Huron A. Smith a botanist spent three months with the Oneida in northern Wisconsin to study traditional cures. He describes milkweed milk for warts ground cherries for eye trouble and tansey plant smoke for headaches as still in use by the remaining redmen.
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Milwaukee
Wis
Huron A. Smith
Wisconsin
Smith
Elderly Mother Denied US Stay to Live With Son
Mrs Rosinee Allison, 71, from Calcutta, India, came to join her son Albert K. Allison in Wethersfield. Officials say the Scotch-Indian quota is filled and she must return to India and reenter with the next quota, travel to India and back.
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Wethersfield
Conn
Rosinee Allison
India
Irish Bar U. S. Films Dublin Ban Over Clothing
The Free State censor bans two American films shown in Dublin because certain characters wear insufficient clothing.
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U. S
Dublin
Free State
Gas-filling stations dazzle traveler on motor journey
Mr Chuggins cites gas-filling stations as the most beautiful and interesting buildings seen during his motor journey, noting their aesthetic appeal and practical charm. The remark blends humor with a travelogue tone, reflecting roadside architecture's impact on travelers.
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Mr. Chuggins
Old Insurance Company Legacy and Rural Wedding Mistake
Philadelphia based Presbyterian Ministers fund is one of the oldest insurance companies in the country established 170 years ago. A proverb notes many a slip between the engagement ring and the wedding ring. The text ironizes farm boys mistakes about monotony in city life.
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Old Insurance Company
The
Presbyterian Ministers’ Fund
Philadelphia
Suspicious Husband and Aunt Sophie Exchange A Cue
A terse domestic note notes a man asking about his suspicious spouse and an aunt named Sophie. The aunt leaves a pipe behind, hinting at a simple domestic misunderstanding or mistaken context.
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Sophie
S. H
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