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Newspaper
The Dalton Gazette
Location
Dalton, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1920
Page
3
A festive invitation theme for a garden of flowers party assigns guests to dress as a flower. A rose doll centerpiece holds garlands matching guests with small floral gifts. Gifts include enamel flower brooches, flower- trimmed baskets, and perfume bottles. Menu cards and rose silk lamp shades complete the floral setting.
The excerpt blends Mary McNeil Fenollosa’s Craftsman lines with Dickens’s nostalgia for Christmas. It evokes the Christ child’s birth and sacrifice, the light in newborns, and the longing for childhood simplicity during the holiday season. The passage contrasts sacred imagery with a homespun, universal warmth.
The term Yuletide Yule traces to an ancient Scandinavian festival at the winter solstice. The word likely derives from the Icelandic jol meaning a feast, with widespread solstice celebrations across Egyptians, Hindus, Persians, Greeks, Romans, and especially Teutons and Norse. A key ceremony involved a large Yule log burned to bring good fortune.
The Mexican Christmas blends sports revels and religious observances with crowds at Passion Plays and bull fights. In the Philippines masses are said in churches, children carry flowers to churches, and processions end with dancing and merrymaking. In Spain the religious tone dominates with mystery plays.
The piece notes a historical sequence beginning in 1525 under Henry VII when Christmas was kept silent due to illness, followed by Cromwell’s protectorate when the festival and nativity emblems were banned. It highlights London’s notable quiet in the Strand and the absence of bells and carols.
Dr George E Vincent head of the Rockefeller Foundation says major progress fighting yellow fever malaria and hookworm promises a 1921 global campaign. Vaccines and sanitation are key and quarantine blocked ports in Mexico as epidemics flare up in Tampico Vera Cruz Tuxpam Progreso Yucatan while oil workers fear exodus from Tampico field.
The Pathfinder claims a reader-supplied account linking the 1918 loss of the U S Navy collier Cyclops with the German vessel Waiblingen, camouflaged as an American merchant ship. Waiblingen sank Cyclops with a mine off Barbados on March 5, scattering gas shells that caused poison clouds and many deaths. The first officer reportedly fled to Texas and died in Houston on March 20. No navy official comments on the tale.
The council asks farm groups to approve a program including government packing house control railroads under public ownership a short time credit system for farmers expansion of the farm land bank and tighter federal reserve rate spreads a rapid progressive war tax on estates incomes excess profits land and natural resources repeal of the Jones shipping law and public ownership of natural resources for service not profit George P. Hampton urges support joined by leaders of major farm groups including J R Howard S J Jowell C S Barrett Milo D Campbell W L Drummond and O G Smith.
Travelers from western Canada report that despite drought fears, the region will stay wet long term due to the Hudson Bay Company charter. They claim the charter, granted in 1670 and extended, cannot be canceled until 2018, and may be challenged in federal courts and London courts.
Mrs. Gibbs of 541 Liberty St, Niles Ohio, recounts years of bronchitis and fatigue after trying many remedies. She credits Earle's Hypo-Cod with major relief after one bottle and urges others to test the tonic, endorsed by doctors and chemists as a potent restorative.
A famed professor known for a parterre in class quips at a football star student Mr. Smith after the star admits watching his watch to confirm it runs. The professor mocks the habit by asking if the student sighs to assure himself he is still breathing.
A Birmingham Age Herald quote notes Bibbles regards the one piece bathing suit with the closest attention when worn by a shapely member of the fair sex.
Healing claims praise Bulgarian Blood Tea as a universal remedy for stomach bowels blood and rheumatic ailments with a single trial package. Advertises benefits for constipation biliousness liver kidney issues and sleeplessness while urging daily use and steam with lemon to fight colds and influenza. Aims to sell via druggists and grocers.
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