Food Prices Rise Four Percent in Mid Oct to Mid Nov
The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports the average moderate income city family saw a nearly 4 percent rise in the food bill from mid October to mid November. Overall prices for goods and services vital to budgets rose 2 percent while costs excluding housing rose less than 1 percent. By November 15, consumers paid 14 percent more than June 15 and 17 percent more than last January.
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Washington
Bureau of Labor Statistics
When It Gets to Zero It’s Springtime
Weather improves after extreme cold as Yukon schools reopen after moderate temperatures. Forty below top temperatures gave way to milder conditions. two schools resumed classes and about 200 children returned to classes as wood shortages and canceled social events eased.
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Dawson, Y. T
Yukon
Christmas Seal campaign funds end Tuberculosis battles
Officials estimate at least 100000 lives saved yearly in America by the Christmas Seal program funding tuberculosis efforts. The idea began in 1903 when Danish clerk Einar Holboell proposed a voluntary tax on Christmas cards to fund a hospital for tubercular children, with ministry approval to sell seals at post offices and campaigns run with postal cooperation.
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America
Einar Holboell
Holboell
Red Cross and tuberculosis seal history outline
The Red Cross began interest in 1907 and worked with the National Tuberculosis Association. They co operated to sell seals with the Red Cross emblem until 1919, when the double barred cross became the seal design. In 1920 the Red Cross shifted to annual Roll Call and the tuberculosis seal sale moved to the Tuberculosis Association.
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American Red Cross
National Tuberculosis Association
Red Cross
The
Tuberculosis Association
Pick a Plump Husband Is Professor's Advice
Harvard anthropologist Professor Ernest Hooton counsels women to seek a plump husband, arguing fat men possess even temperaments and gentleness. He dismisses the “string-bean” and “bone and muscle” types as poor partners for family life.
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Boston
Ernest Hooton
Harvard
Hooton
Children of Provence pray for virtues in Christmas crib scene
Children in Provence recite a Christmas crib prayer listing virtues from fishermen to Magi, bakers to hodglers, asking for patience, kindness, strength, and wisdom. The scene reflects nostalgia for a humane world, with praise of work, play, and sacred leisure.
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Provence
France
Jesus
Future Foretold By Drowsy Hens
Divinations were a Christmas ritual in Czarist Russia. After dinner, five grain piles named Hope Ring Money Thread Charcoal were laid for a drowsy hen to select. The hen’s pick predicted wealth marriage fortune toil or death, while songs and stories followed the hen’s actions.
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Russia
Hope
Ring
Yule Means December from Anglo-Saxon geol
The word Yule for Christmas derives from the Anglo Saxon geol meaning December, reflecting a seasonal naming tradition.
Greyhounds Average 35 MPH Over 525 Yard Course
Greyhounds can maintain about 35 miles per hour across a 525 yard track. This speed reflects typical racing pace observed in standard greyhound events.
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Sherman
Dee G. Patterson
A. Y. Creager Company
M. & P. Bank
Sherman, Texas
Breas
Merry Christmas
Farley & Hill Grocery and Market
Oyhristmas
Jewelers
N. Travis, Sherman
Kirkpatrick Pharmacy
EE Cardus
L. LaRoe & Co
the Magi
Hi-Way Grocery
James H. Gosnell
James Robnett
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