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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 25, 1883
Page
1
A Christmas church pageant sparks a baby’s mysterious gift and a bachelor jeweler Wallace Foster. Louise, his estranged wife, seeks forgiveness as past pride yields to renewed love for their child and a quiet, hopeful reunion at home.
The piece lists theatergoers seen this season such as a man dropping his programme, a woman who leans on her companion, a chatty critic, a head moving seat neighbor, a coat removal during tense moments, a late entrant with squeaking boots, a loud laugher, and a baby whose noise overwhelms visibility.
Advertisement notes Acker's English Remedy for consumption sold by Johnson and Seig for 1.00, described as a fried preparation.
A 19th century turkey dressing recipe instructs using eight to ten pounds of turkey, stale bread, oysters, lemon peel and juice, celery, and butter. Directions cover cleaning, stuffing, two hours of baking, frequent basting with oyster liquor, and preparing giblets for gravy as noted by J. Y. Post.
A twelve year old boy on Duffield Street avoids Christmas spending by seeking a fatherly beating to gain money. He meets a peer who plans the same tactic and a scheme to pool funds for presents, including pistols and knives, with intent to buy sweets and nuts once whipped. The Detroit Post describes a child’s plotted deception.
Rev. Dr. Ewer recalled as a lively Providence youth who, after returning a Mother Goose book to a Westminster Street bookseller, explained his motive that he could not keep it and then set out to learn most of its verses.
A Williamsport, Pennsylvania young lady asked her feller to call on Christmas morning with a minister, saying two souls and two hearts should be united. The prompt reflects rural optimism as Montana sees 00,000 cattle moving in pastures.
A writer recalls crafting two decorative pieces for Christmas using fungi from a dead oak, Florida moss, autumn leaves, grasses, and butterflies. The first piece hangs between windows, the second over the piano in a tarlatan basket, both moving from simple greens to intricate natural designs.
Grandma Melville sends a living white hen to Ava as a tree ornament. Papa cages the bird behind the tree, and the family discovers Snowball laying a snow white egg each morning all winter. Ava proudly calls her Snowball.
A Norristown Herald note describes a Christmas toy imitation cow that supposedly gives real milk. The inventor, possibly very old, lacks understanding of cows and his device is deemed out of step with modern progress.
F. M. Lamb of Tillamook Oregon says his rose bush is the largest in the world. The stock stands nine feet tall with a diameter of two and three quarters inches at six inches from the ground. Florida papers note tobacco stem fertilizer for orange trees gaining statewide notice.
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