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Newspaper
Upper Des Moines Republican
Location
Algona, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1905
Page
14
The passage offers detailed candy making rules from Rorer in the Ladies Home Journal. It emphasizes careful preparation, using best granulated sugar, avoiding stirring after dissolution, and watching the syrup as it boils. It explains fondant formation, cooling on a marble slab, and storage tips while noting slight adjustments to prevent scorching and graininess.
Decorative touches include peanuts in colorful tissue tied in strands, cranberries with satin ribbon knots, gilded English walnuts with hidden fortunes, and a Christmas mood urged by Margaret I. Sangster to dress the home with holly fir and mistletoe, mingle with crowds, share bright talk, and celebrate Christ's birth.
An abridged Newspaper card notes a witty exchange about stocking up for Christmas. The piece mentions a clever man without a bank account and references heiress affection, Santa Claus wishes, and assorted international holiday imagery.
A Detroit Free Press style vignette depicts a sleepless child asking about Santa Claus and Christmas while a weary parent tries to lull him to sleep. The piece ends with a brief note on the Mystic Mistletoe and its historic supposed curative powers and romantic associations.
The royal family in Germany places Christmas trees on tables of varying heights with the emperor’s table the tallest, the empress’s next, and the baby’s smallest. Carp is served as a traditional dish for the imperial Christmas feast across Germany.
A man asks for wife gift ideas and the shopkeeper jokes about cigars, noting she bought a lace parasol for him that morning. The scene reflects playful holiday wit from the Baltimore American amid festive, uneven verse about Santa and city life in Brooklyn.
A reflective plea on Christmas as a philosophy of giving and humility. It urges forgetting self for a day or always, stressing duties over rights, care for the vulnerable, and keeping love as the guiding force. The message links Christmas to universal humanity, urging shared joy and compassionate action.
The article traces Christmas traditions from kissing under the mistletoe to holly at New Year. It cites Washington Irving and Nares on kissing rules and marriage luck, noting berries dried up ends the kiss privilege and holly removal before midnight signals serious New Year entry, with holly to stay until Twelfth Night.
Dealers in rare coins and stamps and similar curios mount their strongest business just before Christmas as needy sellers liquidate items to fund holiday celebrations. The Chicago Daily News notes the seasonal rush and the appeal of valuables in year end trade.
A fragmentary snippet from Detroit Free Press and Chicago Poste hints at seasonal musings. References a letter about not entering by automobile and a sleigh request, plus a father figure noted as looking 89 blue on Christmas Eve.
An account tracing Christmas evolution from Puritan bans in England to renewed celebration in America. It notes Parliament restrictions, church arrests for decor, secret home festivities, and Dutch influence in New Amsterdam. The piece contrasts stern Puritan views with later moderation and cheerful customs.
A fragment from the Washington Star describes Little Billy Billions crying with jealousy over railroad bonds in a Christmas stocking, contrasting Santa’s corporation stock gifts to a neighbor’s luck. It mentions an ancient superstition of nine holly leaves under a pillow to dream of future spouses and a whimsical note on small gifts versus costly presents and Christmas pudding ready to fill one up.
An account from the Methodist Recorder recalls a Christmas Eve truce between French volunteers and German lines near Paris in 1870. A lone French soldier crossed into no-man’s land to sing Noel, followed by a German who echoed the hymn, moving both sides to shared reverence before combat resumed.
A New Year Resolution traces Christmas gifts to the biblical call for peace on earth and goodwill. It notes early charity by great funds, then widespread elving as a social custom. The piece ends with a playful exchange about gift rules between Mrs Nexdoor and Mrs Sunshine, reflecting holiday buying habits.
In old paintings of the Holy Family the Madonna is depicted wearing red and blue, red representing love and blue symbolizing Heaven, reflecting traditional symbolism in European art.
A long anecdote extols Aunt Elmira who makes two kinds of gifts each Christmas to suit her relatives. She calmly knits bed shoes and mittens in pink or blue, believing many Christmas woes stem from worry. Ruth may not cherish pink shoes now, but Elmira trusts practicality over perfection.
The Women’s Companion recommends placing a dozen or more five and ten cent dolls on the tree. Dress them as fairies in bright gauze and tinsel, add wings made from spangled paper with spiral wire for motion. Dolls hover above the tree, creating a magical effect as the wearer lands a festive air.
A quackish snippet offers old time lore about holiday remedies and rites for dream destinies. It mentions nine mistletoe berries steeped in honey and vinegar, to be drunk on an empty stomach before midnight, and a New Year superstition about pulling hairs to form a ring for marriage prayers.
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