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Newspaper
Tripoli Leader
Location
Tripoli, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1973
Page
11
An old legend recalls a peasant woman with many mren decorating a humble Christmas tree with odds and ends. She fled in the night to preserve its beauty as spiders crept along the branches. The Christ Child blessed the tree and the webs turned gleaming silver.
A collection of non alcoholic drinks featuring MOD-FASHIONED with citrus half and half over ice, SCARLET SLING tomato juice with Worcestershire and celery salt, and RUSSIAN SOUR blending tea and cranberry juice. The guide suggests garnishes like orange slices pineapple spears and celery sticks.
A recipe describes concentrated lemonade with one egg white per four cups, shaken until frothy, and served with orange slices and maraschino cherries.
The term wassail comes from waeg hael meaning Be in health. It describes a mulled ale mixture with eggs curdled cream roast apples nuts and spices.
A legend says on the first Christmas night a lamb trailing shepherds to the manger was caught by holly thorns and its blood froze as red berries on the branches.
Near Atkins 47 men arrived with ten corn pickers tractors and wagons to harvest the corn in a cooperative effort led by Car Gerhold and neighbors turning fields into active labour sites.
On the Gerhold farm near Tripoli Iowa 137 acres of corn were harvested. Mr Gerhold was in the hospital during the harvest period.
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