Two Kinds of Horses on the Lazy Y Ranch
Libby Miller rebuffs Rus Crandall but follows through on a solo ride. Lost in the mountains, she clings to her pony and finds home. overheard gossip at the corral prompts a shift in her view of Rus and eastern folk. Libby plans to rethink her earlier judgment and consider Rus again.
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Evelyn Billings
Libby
Rus Crandall
Rus
Evelyn
Hope Palmer
Bill Hart
Bus Crandall
Vitamins Key to Buoyant Health for Workers
A survey by Doctors Stiebeling and Phipard shows half of workers live on poor diets, 15 percent good, with 35 percent fair. Nutrition groups under Dr Henry Borsook at the California Institute push using vitamins to defend national health, noting small daily vitamin needs can yield better health than large low vitamin intake.
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Stiebeling and
Phipard
Department of Agriculture
California Institute
Henry Borsook
Borsook
Service of
National Defense
Santa Shovels Snow Before New York Store
In a lighthearted note, Santa Claus battles several inches of snow preventing his mechanized carriage from moving outside a New York store. He wields a snow shovel to free the vehicle, prompting an editor's bemused aside about North Pole snow depth.
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Santa
Santa Claus
New York
North Pole
Christmas Customs Across Early American Colonies
Across the Atlantic seaboard early colonies varied in Christmas. Southern colonies kept feasting and worship, New England pursued Puritan limits before adopting English yuletide traits, middle colonies mixed traditions from England Germany Holland and Sweden with religious observance. Frontier celebrations ran high as reunions, fowls, wines and sweets characterized the season, later blending into a unified national practice.
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Virginia
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New Jersey
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Delaware
Germany
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Sweden
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Philadelphia
Saint Nicholas as a model of piety and grace
The article traces Saint Nicholas of Myra a fourth century bishop known for piety and grace. It notes his birth to a wealthy merchant family and his refusal of nourishment on fast days as a child. It explains the feast originally on December 6 and its later fusion with Christmas traditions.
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Nicholas
Christmas origins and dating in early church history
Tradition places Christmas celebrations back to AD 98 with a solemn feast order by Pope Telesphorus in AD 137. No record of Christ’s life commemorations exists. By AD 340 St Cyril evaluated the birth date, December 25 was deemed closest to the actual date, and Pope Julius approved the festival in Rome, later adopted across Christendom.
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Telesphorus
Christ
St. Cyril
Julius
Rome
Christendom
Calico Cat Teacup Tea Towel Design Transfer
A playful calico cat motif decorates seven tea towel designs and a matching panholder on transfer 29378. Bright plaid car and corner outlines accent the pattern with outline embroidery and decorative stampings offered as gift sets.
Gift ideas for service members cigarettes and tins
A wartime advertisement suggests gifts for soldiers and sailors. Camel cigarettes are favored in camp and shipboard, with Prince Albert tobacco widely sold in two gift wrap options, pound tins, and pound glass humidors. Local dealers promote these as ideal Christmas presents for men in the service.
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Prince Albert
Army
Navy
Marine Corps
Coast Guard
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