Baby Stocking Hung With Christmas Wish
Poignant verse about a family preparing for a baby's first Christmas. A parent describes hanging the stocking and explaining the holiday to the infant who still has blue eyes and a gentle, knowing expression. The memory captures warmth and anticipation in a small home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Darling
Santa
Santa Claus
Oil City
Gracie
M. D
Derrick
Rochester
N. Y
Gainsborough
The
Osceola Sentinel
Osceola
Christmas Miracle of the Poor Neighbors
In a small room, sisters Dolly and Polly share a bare Christmas with a torn branch tree. Miss Kent and Mr. Chrome secretly fund kindness, Mrs. Smith contributes pies, and Mrs. Blake's family receives a festive surprise. The new gift tree brings dignity, hope, and a restored spirit of generosity to the weary household.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dolly
Polly
Santa Claus
Mr. Chrome
Miss Kent
Chrome
Chick
Mrs. Smith
Mrs. Blake
Perkin
Betsey
Puss
Mother
Puss In Boots
Marquis of Carabas
Blakes
Will
Miss Blake
Pete
Mrs
Harper
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A. Greaves
Warren
E. Beeman
Justice of the Peace
Warren, Pa
Allen Block
Ball & Thompson
Beaty Block, Warren
Wm.swanson
Johnson’s Exchange
Wilbur & Schnur
Front St
Postoffice
W. W. Wilbur
WM. Schnur
Brown & Stone
First National Bank
Warren Pa
H. E. Brown
R. Brown
C. W. Stone
Chas. H. Noyes
Wetmore
Johnson
Lindsey & Parmlee
Johnson's Exchange
P. Johnson
W.M. Lindsey
J. D. Parmlee
Dinsmoor & Cable
Attorneys At Law
Water Street
Scafield’s
Dinsmoor, Jas, Cable
R. B. Stewart
Hazeltine & Davis’ Drug Store
Hickory St
Union School
Henry Cobham
J. M. Davies
Nomeopathic
Liberty St
the Baptist Church
Sextus Keller
F. A. Cogswell
City Meat Market
Front Street
Parmlee & Henry
G. H. Leonhart
Tobacco, &c
Carver House
D. M. Davis
High Street
Court House
G. B. Evans
the Century Magazine
Scribner's Monthly
Century Magazine
Washington
Geo. W. Cabie
Louisiana
W. D. Howells
Lucy M. Mitchell
America
New York
Richard Grant White
Geo
Eliot
Robert Browning
Frederick W. Robertson
Dean Stanley
Matthew Arnold
Christina Rosetti
Cardinal Newman
Wm. D. Howells
Henry James, Jr
George W. Cable
Thackeray
Hawthorne
George Eliot
Dr. Holland
Wyatt Eaton
Century
Century CO
Union Square
N. W. Penn
W.H. Longwell & CO. Publishers
A. Siegel & Sons
Secoodn Yd
People's Shoe Store
J. H. Davis
Whatson & Davis
LG Noyes
Druesel
A. Mintzer & CO
Jamestown
Christmas
Thomas Tusser
Jesus
Whittier
Wither
Tennyson
Grandma
Dr. A
Dr. B
Dr. C
Manchester
N. H
Pennsylvania
Boston Post
Epstaffenay
Josh Billings
Louisa M. Alcott
H. C. Dodge
Hans
Timmins
Trenton
Brooklyn Eagle
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