Little Elsie Teaches Thrift and Charity at Home
A 1913 tale shows Elsie Blake earning money through chores and baby-sitting to aid a poor family. She learns the value of earning, thrift, and helping others, and plans to continue saving for future gifts. Her mother guides her to manage tasks, mend clothes, and save pennies, culminating in Christmas gifts earned by effort.
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Elsie Blake
Elsia
Elsie
McClure Newspaper Syndicate
New York City
Gunkerton Me Holiday Program Highlights
Dunkerton Iowa December 26 The Sun day school presented its usual Christmas program with child exercises recitations songs and drills followed by a cantata The Heart of the Bells by the young people Santa Claus distributed gifts from the tree and sweets. Evening services Dec 28 at 7 and Dec 31 8 45 feature cantata Bethlehem and a social hour 10 15 11 15 watch night devotions at 11 15 Everyone is invited and strangers are welcome.
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Dunkerton
Santa Claus
Bethlehem
Orpheum Choral Society
Brotherhood
Ladies Aid Society
Eczema on scalp cured by Cuticura in two weeks
A report from Beymour describes chronic eczema on the scalp with itching burning and sleepless nights. After two years pimples spread to the shoulders and persistent irritation. The patient credits Cuticura Soap and Ointment with a complete two week cure and recommends the regimen for pimples and blackheads.
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Beymour
L. Hiflan
Cutiona
Dept. T
Boston
Nien
How to Bankrupt the Doctors Ad Analyzed
A New York physician claims doctors would be bankrupt without women’s thin stockings and shoes. The ad urges immediate treatment of colds to prevent pneumonia and promotes Chamberlain's Cough Remedy as effective, pleasant, and safe. For sale by dealers.
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New York
White retires from Waterloo Canning after eleven years
J. J. White, farm superintendent at Waterloo Canning, resigns effective Jan 1 and will retire from active business life. He has also engaged in banking and farming, and plans to move to California briefly before returning to Waterloo in spring. He moved from Reinbeck to Waterloo fourteen years ago and remains a noted local booster.
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Waterloo Canning Corporation
J. J. White
Ager
White
Waterloo
Reinbeck
Canning Company
California
Calumet Mourning Over 72 Dead in Italian Hall Tragedy
Calumet Michigan December 26 mourns 72 killed in a false fire alarm at an Italian hall Christmas Eve celebration for families of copper miners. Most victims were children. A drunken man is blamed for crying fire and triggering the deadly crush on the stairway. A mass meeting pledged unlimited funds for relief, with no outside help. Firefighters recount heroic rescues and losses as officials identify the dead and manage funeral plans.
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Calumet
Mich
Moyer
Western Federation of Miners
Matt Sari
S Tventy-Towo
Calumet & Hecla Hospital
Hanl
Patrick Ryan
Mr. Ryan
Hegend
Angelo Curto
A. Nimela
John Burrill
Leonard Wilman
Trudell
John Scari
Scotes
Houghton
Christmas Visitors and Travels in Winthrop Area
Local notes list residents and guests visiting kin or traveling for holidays. Names include J B Ryan and Mary Ryan Holmes Wiscon sin. A J Cummer from Dubuque. Ethel Hunter visiting Mt Vernon. Will Kretz in Jesup. Mrs Arthur Phieffer from Allerton. Selima Aldering of Brandon. Edna Braden of Ames. Mrs H White and daughter from Chicago. R M Braden on business to Gimen Wis. Irene Peterson from Waterloo. Mike King and family to Monticello. Gordon Guthrie and others traveling or hosting relatives around Christmas week.
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John Slaughter
James Trainor
Frank Peterson
Dubuque
W. J. Hilmer
Waterloo
W. Yeager
Mies Flo Bateman
Central City
John Bateman
George Burnette
Jesup
George Harrington
Gilbert Brintnall
Ames
Clara Henderson
Independence
A. J. Foster
Morris Maroney
Masonville
James Diggins
Pomeroy
Annie Digging
Bert. Lord
Mechanicsville
Henry Lord
Mayme Stoneman
James Sherren
Arlington
Fred Sampson
Frank Klotzbach
J. D. Jackson
I. S. Hobson
Baby
Winthrop
J. B Ryan
Town City
Mary Sryan
Wisconsin
James Ryan
A. J. Cummer
Ethel Hunter
Mt. Vernon
Wilbur Hunter
Will Kretz
Arthur Phieffer
Allerton
Frank Thor
Selima Aldering
Brandon
Ray Postel
Edna Braden
R. M. Braden
H. White
Chicago
O. J
Ray Smith
Fred Schrader
George Thomn
Earl Urinthall
Marvel Can
Ken Shine
Jows City
Dan Shine
Don Glazier
Bridgewood
Reunion at Traer Belin Family Gathering at Emil Ehlers Home
The Stroh belin family plans a reunion at the Emil Ehlers home near Dinsdale. Visitors will come from Waterloo and thirteen children will attend, six with their families, forming a group of over thirty relatives.
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Traer
Star-Clipper
Strohbelin
Emil Ehlers
Dinsdale
Waterloo
Resinol Promises Quick Relief From Skin Itching
Resinol Ointment stops itching instantly and begins healing when applied. Paired with Resinol Soap, it reportedly clears eczema ringworm pimples and other eruptions quickly. The ad notes safety for delicate skin and even babies, claims doctors have prescribed it for eighteen years, and invites readers to request a trial by writing to Dept 1 M Resinol Baltimore Maryland.
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United States
Dept. 1-M
Resinal
Baltimore
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