The Bell on Christmas Eve and a Soldier’s Dream
A Chicago News reminiscence recounts a bell in a Belfry tied to Christmas memories. The speaker recalls winding the worn rope and hearing a blessing like a lullaby as stars appeared and angels whispered, guiding a lifelong bond between memory, faith, and solace. The piece reflects on care, comfort, and a doorway toward heaven.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Susan
Emilia
Bethlehem
Almos
Walter &. Stranahan
Chicago News
Wolfish Christmas Hunt on Bradley Mountain
In a winter trek to Bradley's, a hunter encounters a seven Wolf pack and uses a makeshift smelting ladle to cast 15 lead bullets. He climbs a large tree to escape, fells the alpha with a shot, and returns with wolf pelts and partridge for Christmas dinner at Bradley's.
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Hiram Hull
Bradley's
Hiram
Amos Barker
Amos
Moountain
Billy
Aaron Clark
Dolly
Jack
Bru
Bradley
Molly Bradley
Rowland Robinson
Chicago
Inter Ocean
Gifts for the Aged The old ladies deserve thoughtful Christmas gifts
Edward W Bok urges young women to brighten aging lives with simple considerate gestures and fresh holiday attention. He argues that small acts of kindness bring a year of sunshine, offering mutual growth as young and old share wisdom and respect.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ladies’ Home Journal
Edward W. Bok
Christmas Catechists and a Boy's Santa List
A Chicago Post snippet shows a boy happy after giving Santa a wish list to his papa. The papa’s sad face contrasts with the boy's glad smile as the moment prompts questions about promises and obedience in a holiday scene.
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Santa Claus
Papa
Chicago
Post
The lifelike peddler sells Samson biography to Dodson
A lean black clad book agent presses a volume on Dodson despite a “Peddlers and Book Agents Not Wanted” sign. Dodson buys it for a dollar fifty, later a friend jokes that Samson is a 3 000 year old figure, not a modern hero.
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Dodson
Samson
Man In Black
Dadson
Times
Detroit Free Press
Combination of Health and Wealth in Alberta Letter
A Calgary reader writes that Alberta offers a better life for poor home-seekers than Minnesota. He praises short winters and long sunny days, rapid vegetation, profitable hog and cattle farming, cheap railroad land on long payments, and extensive unsettled areas north of Edmonton and west of Edmonton suited to ranching and mixed farming. He also notes health benefits for consumption and endorsements from settlers, urging readers to seek settlement information from Canadian government agents.
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Calgary
Alberta
Duluth “Evening Herald
Duluth
Minn
Minnesota
Edmonton
Charles M. Scott
The Great Trouble in This World
The author laments excess of fools, noting they have always been numerous and doubt any future reduction in their supply. The lines reflect sharp social critique attributed to Atchison ode style.
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Atchison Ode
Hall's Catarrh Cure Promises Cure for Constitutional Disease
Hall's Catarrh Cure is claimed as the only positive cure for catarrh, described as a constitutional disease requiring constitutional treatment. The ad states the remedy works internally, targets blood and mucous surfaces, and offers one hundred dollars for any failure to cure. Sold by Druggists for 75 cents. Hall's Family Pills also recommended.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carbersta Fic Syrup Co
Cathorsia Fie Syrup Co
Caxt- Forsia Fie Syrup Co
Hall
Isc
F. J. Cheney & Co
Toledo
If I had lots of money I would burn it says Jimmie Peters
A Cleveland Plain Dealer report recounts a primary school lesson on charity and money. Pupils list gifts for family and friends while the last boy, Jimmie Peters, bluntly replies he would burn it. The anecdote highlights children’s moral impressions and humor in a classroom setting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Papa
Mamma
Jimmie Peters
Jimmie
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Very Low Rates Via the Missouri Kansans & Texas Railway
Semi monthly excursions to the southwest promote Texas as the empire state with rich resources and mild climate. Descriptive pamphlets and excursion dates are available from H. A. Cherrier in Chicago or T. B. Cockerly in Des Moines for interested travelers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Missouri
Kansans
Texas Railway
Southwest
Texas
Empire State of the Union
Middle States
H. A. Cherrier
Marquette Bidg
Chicago
T. B. Cockerly
Dist. P. A
Des Moines
Opinions of a Pessimist in Cleve land Leader
A column quotes lines about courage and doubt, noting that proof of knowledge does not change style, a weeping woman lacks value, consistent enemies beat doubting friends, hesitation ruins letters, great expectations idle capable men, and fortunes lift men beyond fit positions.
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Cleveland
Puzzle Verse Riddle Claims To Free Poets
A riddle asks for a simple go between that parts and liberally divides thoughts, freeing Shakespeare, Milton, Sidney, Spenser, and Taylor. It promises a reward to George H. Heatford in Chicago if solved and mailed with a two cent stamp.
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Shakespeare
Milton
Sidney
Spenser
Taylor
George H. Heatford
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul
Old Colony Building
Chicago
Diplomacy Quip Points to Bold Language
A Chicago Evening News quote defines diplomacy as the art of telling a man he is a scoundrel without letting him get mad about it. The remark satirizes diplomatic finesse and blunt confrontation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tommy
Papa
Chicago Evening News
Through Sleeper Cars and Routes to Gulf Coast Florida
The Louisville & Nashville Railroad markets winter through service with Pullman Vestibuled Sleeping Cars and day coaches from Cincinnati Louisville St Louis and Chicago to Mobile New Orleans and Gulf Coast destinations including Thomasville Pensacola Jacksonville Tampa Palm Beach and other Florida points. Connections with steamer lines offer trips to Cuba Porto Rico Nassau and the West Indies. Tourist and Home Seekers excursion tickets are offered at low rates. inquiries go to C P Atmore General Passenger Agent Louisville Ky.
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Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company
Cincinnati
Louisville
St. Louis
Chicago
Mobile
New Orleans
Gulf Coast
Thomasville
Pensacola
Jacksonville
Tampa
Palm Beach
Florida
Cuba
Porto Rico
Nassau
West Indian
C. P. Atmore
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Kristmas
Bright
Bobbie
Canada
OSSF
Butter — Creamery
Gralee
Milwaukee
Kansas City
St Louis
Hogs Packers Ag
Enaeneneeenes
Eric Ween
Omaha
Mita
Petiwir
Cohenstein
Atchison Globe
L. A. W. Bulletin
Aver
Ager
United States
J. C. Ayer
Lowell
Mass
Cas
Stedefond, & Deposit Co
Pittsburg
Ce Cathartic
Weigistsred
Sterling Remedy Company
Montreal
New York
CJ Allens
E.large
J. FP. Allen Medics Co
St. Paul
Webster
P. c
Webster Co
Ors St
Chicago Ill
THE
Muralo Company
New Brighton
Sapolio
Liggit
TT & Myers Toba
Mississippi River
West
Adams St
York, NY
Caers
Merrill, Bassin OL
Caverns
Bartholome
Uth Street
Iowa
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