Newspaper Classics and the enduring holiday prints
The piece traces how cartoons and essays like John T. McCutcheon’s Injun Summer and Webster’s Hardin County 1809 become annual reprints in Chicago Tribune and Kansas City Star. It notes Is There a Santa Claus and Irving Bacheller's No Grandmothers There shaping holiday culture through repeated newspaper reprints across decades.
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Elmo Scott Watson
Tribune
John T. McCutcheon
New York Sun
Virginia O'Hanlon
Santa Claus
Kansas City Star
H. T. Webster
Hardin County
Lincoln
Star
Kansas
Walt Mason
Chicago Tribune
McCutcheon
John McCutcheon
The
Herald
Webster
New York World
United States
Francis P. Church
Sun
Irving Bacheller
New York
West
Will C. Ferril
Rocky Mountain Herald
Denver
Mr. Bacheller
Mr. Ferril
Far West
Newspaper Classics and the vanished grandmothers tale
The piece reflects on folklore of grandmothers in the West and the memory value of verses reprinted by newspapers. It cites Walt Mason poems in Kansas and famed tributes like West’s Dog Eulogy and Ingalls Blue Grass, noting how such pieces become enduring Newspaper Classics through repeated reprints.
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West
Rocky Mountains
Oregon Country
Utah
Mountains
California
Pike’s Peak
Colorado
Kansas
Sunflower State
Walt Mason
George G. West
Missouri
J. Ingalls
Oglesby
Illinois
John Trotwood Moore
Tennessee
George Thomas Lanigan
Ahkoond
Swat
Punch
Isaac Bromley
Noah Brooks
W. C. Wyckoff
Moses P. Handy
Mark Twain
Times
Is There a Santa Claus in This Letter to Virginia
The famous editorial response asserts belief in Santa Claus despite skepticism. It argues that faith, love, poetry, and childhood joy reveal realities beyond proof, concluding that Santa exists as surely as devotion and will endure forever.
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West Ninety-fifth Street
Virginia
Santa Claus
Grandmothers Felt Vanishing Across the Land
The sketch laments a nation without grandmothers in distant western homes while Thanksgiving nears. It contrasts East and South family reunions with Rocky Mountain and Pacific communities where children grow up without a grandmother’s presence or knitted creations.
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Rocky Mountains
Pacific Coast
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