Christmas Eve Sleigh Ride Ends With Injury
In a holiday outing through a frosty town, Mary Byron leads a group of young riders in carols. A spill on an alley causes Mary to break her ankle while Bob Miles sets the bone, promising to check on her recovery as the group plans to visit Widow Elder the next night.
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Christ
Widow Elder’s
Bob Miles
Mary Byron
Mary
Wider
Bob Alles
Western Newcpaper Union
Gift of a train sparks thoughts on progress and thanks
On Christmas morning Harold receives a detailed electric train set from Uncle Dan, including yards of track, a station, signal tower, switches, tunnel, and turntable. The boy is enthralled as the train roars through the layout, while Uncle Dan reflects on progress and the debt to past inventors who made such gifts possible. Harold thanks the inventors and the benefactors of the race for their contribution to the present.
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Arold
Dan
Harold
Davie Dan
George
Uncle Dan
Western Newspaper Union
Christmas Trees by Constance Withrow
A seaside family lacking gifts finds twenty Christmas trees erected by the hedge near their cottage. Sallie, a hopeful child, wakes to discover each tree bearing a present, proof of Santa’s visit shared by village neighbors and the mother’s quiet faith.
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Constance Withrow
Sallie
Santa
Salie
Mrs. Moore
Christmas Dinner Knot Resolves With Elopement Plot
In Knollton the Lambert Greene Sansome Christmas dinner faces a feud between Mrs Lambert and Grace Sansome. Allan and Marie hatch a plan to unite the six young people and end the rift. Betty and George contemplate elopement but with a twist the group schemes a playful reconciliation that brightens the holiday gathering.
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RS. Lambert
Knollton
Lambert- Greene-Sansome
Allan
Marie
George
Dorothy
Jack
Betty
Salad Mra. Greene
Diane
Grace Sangome
Mary Greene
Mrs. Lambert
Grace
Mrs. Greene
Grace Sansome
Mrs. Sansome
Mary
Allan Lambert
Greenes
Sansomes
George Graene
Betty Sansome
Lambert
Tne
Eorge
Thomas Jefferson Greene
Greene
Meg. Sansome
Conservatism and human nature in a storm of ideas
A reader reflects on writing honesty and the faults of others, arguing that long works echo common faults and that genius is often just great effort. The piece critiques hypocrisy, outlines conservatism as a natural law, and recalls anecdotes about poets, money, and a gunfight where thirteen officers faced two bandits, with the bandits prevailing.
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Thare
Pol Tea
Bey Bradiogtqen
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Allen Gaisford
el Ciriateias
Charles Frederic Wadeworths
Lambert Mr
Personnel Greene
Sansome If
George Jacke
Dorothy Batty
Mamini
Aub Grace
Mahatwa Ghaddi
George Washington
Marle
Janta
Allah
Nand
Allen
Earl
Valow
Silerius
Silerlus
Rome
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