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Newspaper
Vienna Progress
Location
Vienna, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1900
Page
3
A Victorian style note links Christmas candles and the sun god festival to Yuletide customs. It describes the plus pudding as a giant pottage of meats and flour boiled in a large pot, served with honey and mistletoe, often celebrated with processions and gratuities from guests.
The piece notes Scotland’s Christmas growing as a holiday with rites after the Reformation, contrasts old Halloween and Yule with modern Christmas feasts, mentions Bavaria as the world’s great toy center producing nine tenths of European toys, and describes German toymaking families painting and assembling toys for Christmas with French dolls and fur animals also cited. It includes a recipe fragment for a stuffing dish and an ad-like line about Herlay Goods in Vienna.
The Pampa Herald reports diphtheria outbreaks linked to circuses visiting the area. Three outbreaks in five years followed performances by Gentry horse and dog show Sells & Gray and others near Tampa Bay, Garrison, and West Tampa. Officials urge wider medical inquiry and state exchanges to investigate animal transmission.
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