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Newspaper
Weekly Wisconsin
Location
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1885
Page
7
A fragmented verse invites guests Faith and Hope to celebrate the new year. It calls for feasting, singing, and a bold toast to the newborn year as moods mix with sober gowns and sapphire skies. The speaker urges filling the cup to brim and drinking to the young year's birth.
Billy Davis a nine year old in The Wisconsin story is molded by older neighbor Tommy Toodles into doubting Santa Claus. Billy proclaims no Santa, questions where parents get gifts, while his sister Nelly and brother Johnny react with tears and confusion. The tale explores belief versus skepticism in a Christmas setting.
A restless Billy suspects Santa is watching and plots to uncover his parents stocking gifts. He trails his mother, finds no clues, and clumsily confronts a midwinter ruse. Dawn reveals the culprit is a wax doll mistaken for Saint Nicholas, easing Billy’s jealousy as Nelly beams at a surprise doll.
The text recounts how the groom nicknamed “nitoes” pressured the bride with almonds and a candy mouse to silence her. After the event Billy grew secretive about Santa Claus and never tried to confront him again.
A 19-year-old, John Eckley of Eckley Station near Vallejo Junction, swallowed two knives blade first, then a third. He survived after doctors used a buckwheat diet to form a protective coating and pass the blade. The incident drew praise for the medical care and Eckley’s cautious recovery.
A Swede named Henry Amberson, recently from Chicago, was killed in a woods accident near Unity when a falling tree ennahed him to death. The report notes a local remedy advertisement for Ayer's Sarsaparilla as a general health endorsement.
A long, unreadable OCR fragment lists numerous names with ages and December dates from various places including Milwaukee Fond du Lac and Delavan, followed by brief notices of price drops on cashmere shawls and an 1886 Hostetter's Almanac advertisement.
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