Christmas Keeping and Holiday Customs in Early New Amsterdam
Helen Evertson Switt reviews 17th century Christmas customs among Dutch English and French Huguenot settlers in New Netherlands. She contrasts Dutch moderation, English feasting, and French temperance, noting gift practices and evolving American tradition embracing Santa Claus and global influences.
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New Netherlands
Louis the Magnificent
United States
Old England
Holland
Helen Evertson Switt
Hanging Up the Stockings in Staffordshire
In Staffordshire England children hang stockings on Christmas Eve and recite a rhyme to the Christmas fairy to ensure they receive their wished for gifts. The verses express sorrow from the year and longing for greetings and joy at Christmas.
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Staffordshire
England
Henry Friend
A. Weiss
Christmas Carols Before the Twelfth Century
From ancient chants to medieval carols the article surveys Christmas music origins in England and Europe. It notes Gregorian and Anglican roots, the wandering minstrels, pre Twelfth century singing, and enduring customs of carols sung door to door on Christmas Eve with lines like God Rest You Merry Gentlemen.
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Merry Dagland
England
St. Augustine
Great Britain
British Museum
Old Warton
Milton
Harper’s Bazar
A Legend of the Mistletoe From Nordic Lore
The piece recounts a Scandinavian legend of the mistletoe sapping life from trees. A loving peasant girl falls ill, her lover seeks mistletoe on a snow clad oak to save her, climbs the tree and dies. The tale links the mistletoe to the crucifixion and notes it as a parasitic plant bearing waxy white berries.
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New York Ledger
Roasted Venison with Paste and Rich Gravy
Instructions for preparing venison with a flour paste browning at heat, then buttered and floured, plus a hot pan gravy with onion peppercorns and cloves. Cook times total about two and a half hours for a fifteen pound leg. Philadelphia Record.
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Philadelphia
The Coming of the King
A Toronto Mail excerpt reflects on the birth of Jesus in Bethlehem, describing the heavenly leader’s march from distant worlds and the proclamation of the monarch’s crown, tyrant’s scepter, and the dawn of Christmas with eternal echoes.
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Heaven
Bethlehem
Judea
Lim
Toronto Mail
Christmas Verse and Street Smiles in 19th Century Dispatch
A collage of brief verses and quips on Christmas cheer and temptations. A lender taunts a borrower with mortgage deadlines while a minister jokes about moral trials. Christmas luxury and satire mingle with old time phrasing and Exchange snippets from Philadelphia Ledger and other sources.
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Business Directory
T. Neill
Hoffman Block
Samuels Bros. Ary Goods
Corner Liberty
Second Reets
W. N. Yates
Waerren Savings Bank
L. G. Noyes & Co
Warren, Pa
BAY & Thompson
Attorneys AT Law
Beaty Block
A. A. Davis & Co
D. I. Ball
C. Thompson
Cable & Peterson
New Savings Bank
Char
Dinsmoor
JAS
Chas. A. Feterso
Norman Davies
M. D
Liberty Street
W. W. Freeman
Hazeltine
Perry
Justice Or the Peace
Warren
Water Street
Geo. Ball
A C. McAlpin
BR. W. Bryarnt
D. D.S
St. Warren
D. M.C. Moe
de Sphtallse
Warren Hotel
HE Revere
Frank Metzgar
D.A.V
W.N.Y
P.r.r.de. Warren
Greaves
Hall
Episcopal Church
Ossuth
Warren Lodge Hall
G Smith
First National Bank
Golden Horse Shoe
C H. Meacham
Justice OF the Peace
Esquire
Cornelius
Presto
Kodak
PENN
West
John C. West Company
Chicago
Ill
Siegfried & Co
Warren, Paly
Humphrey & Nemoyer
Traialogue
Clarke’s Business College
Erie
J. C. Char
A. E. Scheiter
L. D. Wetmore
M. Beecher
Warren County
Ireland
Scot
Europe
Spi
Pretty Rose
Old Madrid
Mary
John
Seady
Kelle Connor
Krout
Albert Krout
Phila
Ayer
Frank Teson, Jr
West Fourth Street
New York City
BD. W. Barnes
Valparaiso
Neb
J. C. Ayer
Bilious
Doore
A. P. Ordway & Co
Boston
Mass
Viur Ind Savings Bank
A.J. Hazeltine
W. Beaty
O. W. Beaty
M. B. Dunham
L. B. Wood
Chas
B. Noye
James Clark
Lt. Freeman
Charles Stone
F. A. Rockwell
A. J Hazeltine
Cainer Mollingey
Federal St
Alleghny
Dalk Line
Eline
Wu Arch St
Somersetshire
Joseph
Christ
Deller
Philadelphia Ledger
China
Santa Claus
Castoria
Samuel Pitcher
Dr. G. 0
Oscoon
Lowell, Mass
Sam
J. F. Eiocarnos
Conway, Ark
Ancien, M. D
Oxford St
Brooklyn
Children’s Department
Castorta
Usitip
Wospira
Allen C. Surtn, Pres
the Centaur Company
T. Murray Street
J. J. Speck
Holmes
Pennsylvania
WM. EH. Holmes eCo
Miedlers
Water St
First Ave
C. B. Judd
Detroit
Mich
Rechts van Borre Crry
Mont
On & Honths’ Trial
Brown & Friend
Williams
Nerve Seed Co
Lib
Warren Pa
Siezfried & Co. Uruggists
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