Contest Turns Win into Double Wedding News
In a Christmas Eve living room scene Muriel and Agnes discuss luck and life choices, Agnes reveals a contest win that puts Harold Ryan, now a managing editor, in contact. Fred Ryan arrives with a surprise: a plan for a double wedding as the holiday joy unfolds.
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Phooey
Harold Ryan
Fred
Harold
Mine
Fred Ryan
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Honker the Honkerback and Peter Meet on the Big River
Peter Gossips with Honker the rabbit sails the Big River in a moonlit scene as Honker leads a cautious flock toward safety from hunters. Peter greets Honker, learns of their long journey and looming winter, and marvels at Honker’s markings.
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T. W. Burgess
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Ed Wynn Question Box Doles Out Light Advice
Readers submit jokes and queries to Ed Wynn with playful answers. A detective question about a criminal escaping at a railroad station is lampooned with a pun, and marriage and travel queries receive simple, humorous solutions.
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Mr. Wynn
Violet symbolism and Napoleon exile legend
A brief note recalls the belief that violets signal Napoleon’s return from Elba. Followers wore violet rings and watch ribbons as secret markers of allegiance during the exile era.
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Napoleon
Island
Elba
McClure
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Mothier Cook Book Card Beverages Candies and Desserts
The item outlines a Velvet Molasses Candy recipe using molasses sugar water vinegar and a candy pull. It also includes Apple Sauce Pudding instructions with cinnamon junket and almond flavoring, plus a buttercup butter molasses roll suggestion and home guidance for gatherings and snacks.
Edison Optimistic After Fire Destroys Plant in 1914
Edison told his general manager Wilson that the Orange New Jersey plant was a goner but would be rebuilt bigger and better than ever, as the fire peaked in 1914.
Prophecies Attributed To Mother Shipton Through Time
A brief overview recounts Mother Shipton as a figure from a 1641 tract reputed to have lived during Henry VIII's reign. It notes later 1677 editions by Richard Head crediting her with predicting steam engines telegraphs and other inventions and even apocalyptic predictions for 1881.
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Mother Shipton
Henry VIII
Wolsey
Cromwell
Lord Percy
Richard Head
Patty's Curls by Anne Campbell
A poem about Patty's refusing haircut as parents and others plan to cut her curls. Each week she is photographed to remember the curls that end up avoided. The verse notes Patty's ringlets remain and the desire to postpone the cut, hoping for joyful years ahead.
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Patty
Pat
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Evening gown with plaid taffeta and bold decolletage
A young evening gown features a green, fuchsia and gold plaid taffeta fabric with a black velvet stripe. A bow hints at the high front decolletage while the back is cut to the waist.
Fondant Making Instructions From Western Newspaper Union
Directions describe boiling and roiling to brittle fondant, adding cream of tartar butter and soda near end, pouring when firm in cold water, cooling and pulling, forming a long roll then covering with buttercup mixture and slicing into pieces.
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Western Newspaper Union
Party Cheese Salad Preparation
Recipe notes describe shaping two packages of cream cheese into twelve small balls. Toast or tint to desired color. Arrange in lettuce nests and serve with mayonnaise dressing.
Indians Perform Numerous Ceremonial Dances
Iroquois people perform about eighty dances in their ceremonies as part of traditional rituals.
The Supper Jesus Gave His Friends Lesson
Lesson based on I Corinthians 11 23 34 outlines the institution and meaning of the Lord s Supper, its symbols bread and cup, and its significance for remembrance, substitutionary atonement, and future redemption. It covers proper understanding, church membership, orderly conduct, disqualification for immorality or heresy, and penalties for unworthy participation.
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Christ
Jesus
Jesus Christ
God
Patience Explained as Loyalty to Hard Tasks
The excerpt defines patience as staying under burden and loyal to difficult tasks even when escape seems possible. It emphasizes the whole person remaining committed in heart, head, and body in a challenging place.
They Are the Winners of the White Robe Spiritual Purity
A reflective line extols triumph through spiritual purity and moral struggle. The speaker frames the white robe as a symbol for those who overcome base human frailties in the journey of mankind.
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Mothiers Cook Book
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