Christmas Across the World in Mission Stations
The piece surveys Christmas customs at distant mission stations in Africa Alaska and Asia. It recalls improvised trees such as a boat mast on Blacklead Island and Santa visits by Sheldon Jackson delivering bags of food and toys to Eskimo families in remote villages.
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Africa
South Seas
Eskinto
Blacklead Island
Alaska
Santa Claus
Sheldon Jackson
Arctic
Siberia
Zululand
South Africa
Christmas Customs Across Asia and Balkans Across the Globe
The article describes Christmas rituals in African missions where trees bear gifts and dolls delight children, in Korea China and Burma missions with toys and school supplies, and in the Balkans and Aleutians where folklore and saints shape observances. It notes Filipinos give shoes to receive gifts from the Wise Men rather than Santa and extend Christmas through Twelfth Night.
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Star of Bethlehem
Santa Claus
Philippines
Kings
Jesus
Bethlehem
Sensational career pivots as star limns future
Tdred Harris Chaplin, famed actress of Dad!, The Woman in His House, Habyt, and an upcoming masterwork, nears her nineteenth birthday. She plans marriage at seventeen to a renowned comedian, reflects on royal meetings and a late eighteen loss as a mother, shaping a life of sorrow, philosophy, and sympathy amid the Hollywood glare.
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Tldred Harris Chaplin
Mildred
Tryez
Sorrie
Cod
Stars and Stardom At The Movies Feature Profiles
A fragmented write up profiles Shirley Mason and Vera Gordon highlighting their film careers and personas. It notes Mason’s moonlit project Girl of My Heart and Gordon’s rise as a screen mother acclaimed for her warmth and breadth of work in theater and film. It mentions Charlie Murray and Cullen Lands Landis as notable industry figures shaping early Hollywood careers.
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Shirley Mason
Mother Eve
Vera Gordon
Thema
Sarah Bernhardt
Moiion Pictures
Russia
England
Canada
Cullen Lands
Chien Landis
Princes Screen
Los Angeles County
Cullen
Diamond Dick
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Cee A
Wight
Niger
Robert Tighe
Santa Claus Vistis
Lilel
MSSM
China
Korea
Burmah
Laos
Siam
Balkans
Medifal
Sérbia
Jeave
Alm
Familly
Emall
Ong
Aleutian Islands
Bering Sea
Sndien
Lanin la Merites
Borie Jams
Ee del LR
Wee Ellie
Cere
Zorro
Dowe
Mlo
Charles Murray
Charlie Murray
Lauril
Murray
Alvin Joslyn
Red
Arisigorat
Corlane
Broadway
Ner Gwin
New York
GriMth
Cle Lea
Cherries Foye
California
Miss Action
Doug
Marguerite de la Motte
Fairbanks
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