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Newspaper
Washburn Times
Location
Washburn, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1906
Page
2
Poem describes a tropical island where children roam barefoot and lack chimneys and stockings. Santa Claus struggles to deliver gifts among cocoanut palms while fruit trees flourish. The speaker envisions building chimneys and sending stockings and Christmas trees to delight the children.
A sermon on the birth of Christ emphasizes the in carnation as central to world history. It calls for forgetting bitterness, reconciling family feuds, and glorifying life, praying for peace and goodwill toward men. Dr. Robert Stuart Macarthur of Calvary Baptist Church in New York City delivers the message.
A Salvation Army Santa on Fourteenth Street is interrupted by a persistent girl who gives her full name and address and lists her Christmas wishes as bystanders and a passing mother look on. Her insistence blocks traffic for a time while the crowd listens to the impromptu appeal.
An old sheet becomes Santa Claus when guests paint and draw. Red caps are placed on the sheet while blindfolded players try to pin a cap on Santa. The winner gets a toy Santa. two runners up with nearest results receive reindeer prizes.
The piece contrasts southern Christmas with Fourth of July celebrations noting inexpensive gifts and a heavy use of firecrackers torpedoes and roman candles. It mentions a tin horn that sounds from Christmas Eve through midnight of December 25 with the cry Christmas gift heard instead of merry Christmas.
A detailed look at how the Vatican’s finances have been managed for six decades by the Rothschilds, including investment control, annual income streams from Peter’s Pence and real estate, and Pope Pius X’s frugal, charitable administration amid reform efforts. It notes arrears on a guaranteed income, cardinals’ salaries, and cautious returns on investments.
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