Christmas Adventure on Crusoe Island With Peccaries
The narrator recounts a Christmas morning on Crusoe Island where a peccary herd corners him in a tree. A black man and a dog save him, and Pappy Ned prepares meat and cassareep for a festive feast. The tale drifts to Crusoe’s fictional location and a rugged camp life with palm hut, cocoa, coffee, and cassava staple foods.
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Crusoe’s Island
Crusoe
Juan Vernandez
South America
United States
Caribbean Sea
Old Crusoe
Robinson Crusoe, Esq
Mariner
Bristol
England
Daniel de Foe
Tobago
Pappy Ned
Ned
Pappy
Crusoeian Christmas Feast in Tobago with Pappy Ned
Frederick A. Ober recalls his Tobagan Crusoe like life with Pappy Ned, a loyal mulatto servant. They hunt peccaries and share a feast of gumbo, fish, frogs legs, turtles eggs, and cashew cocktails on a palm hut island.
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Ned
Crusoe’s Island
Pappy
Frederick A. Ober
Plums Pudding Directions From St. Louis Post Dispatch
Step by step recipe for plum pudding using beef kidney suet raisins currants bread crumbs lemon peel sugar flour nutmeg allspice brandy six eggs. Cloth preparation and steaming three hours then cooling five minutes bring to table with sugar and flaming brandy.
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Malaga
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Sauce For Plum Pudding And Non Alcohol Version
The instructions give two sauces: a brandy enriched pudding sauce using four tablespoons butter two egg whites one cup powdered sugar one gill brandy and one gill boiling water, whipped to light cream and kept warm in boiling water. A non alcohol variant uses cornstarch butter boiling water one egg and sugar with flavoring.
Cranberry and Apple Sauce from a Historic Guide
Select ripe berries and wash in cold water then simmer cranberries in water until tender. Add two cups sugar, boil gently until dissolved, and serve hot or cold for a clear sauce. Peel tart apples, boil in water until tender, press through a colander, add butter and a dash of spice, and sweeten.
Presents For Men From A Christmas Gift Guide
The article outlines gift ideas for men including toilet articles in silverware such as talcum jars and cold cream jars, silver mounted brushes, combs, clothes brushes, whisk brooms, flasks and shaving brushes. Bath robes, heavy silk mufflers, embroidered suspenders, neckties, handkerchiefs, chest protectors, and a wastebasket are suggested. Japanese masks, swords, bayonets and oriental panel decorations are noted as den-like decor. A corkscrew with horn top and silver trim is highlighted as a desirable utensil.
Christmas Gift From Rich Uncle
A humorous exchange reveals a gift described as a useful device to save coal bills. The item is a bill file meant to sit on a desk, not attached to the heater, as recounted in a Philadelphia Press piece.
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Ascum
Philadelphia Press
The Only One In Captivity
A museum patron quips about holiday shopping as the manager notes the rarest item is a person who buys fewer gifts than he can afford.
Mistletoe Kissing Sparks Lighthearted Quip Exchange
Comfort Brown questions the practicality of kiss under the mistletoe as Thomas Tubbs affirms the charm of lighthearted flirtation the two share a playful exchange about festive affection.
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Comfort Brown
Thomas Tubbs
Christmas Synonym Card
A synonym for Christmas and a moody exclamation about a break.
Yuletide Cheer Truces Heal Foes Across the Land
The New York Journal praises Christmastide as a time when hearts are kind and feuds fade. Friendship is renewed through forgiveness and goodwill, with celebrations and generous giving uniting people across distances.
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Gay. Yuletide
New York Journal
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de Foe
Guiana
River Amazones
Orinocco
Great River
Trinidad
Orinoco
Robinson Crusoe
Massa
Pam
West Indies
Walter Raleigh
Robinson
Popper
W. J. Dolan & CO
P. L. Lawler
Oder
B. Ungroot
Jossse
The
Washburn Steam Laandry
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