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Newspaper
Williston Graphic
Location
Williston, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jan 08, 1903
Page
6
Robert Allerton, a hopeful young man, adopts a widowed mother and two girls for Christmas after a stranger’s urging. Through a day of gift giving, he finds belonging, love, and a renewed sense of family, culminating in a tender vow to share year round joy.
A Detroit Free Press excerpt recounts Mrs. Dillingham visiting Mrs. Keedick to learn Freddy Keedick’s best Christmas gift. They prefer useful presents like a French clock and a desk, rejecting toys, while Freddy’s thoughtful relatives supply practical items such as vases and a solar pillow.
The Woman's Home Companion offers tips to decorate a Christmas tree safely. It advises thinning branches to show gifts, boring a spiral row along the trunk, placing varied length green-tipped sticks as supports, and fixing a Christ-child figure atop. adornments include stars, sachets of nuts and candy, fruit, popcorn strings, and ribbons to delight children. Christmas Etiquette urges sharing happiness with others.
A fragment poem celebrates Christmas joys and sweets for children and elders. It references King Cupid and Santa Claus in the festive scene, noting not all treats arrive on the day and time of thrice blessed celebration.
A reflective editorial urges respect for the man who vows to reform on New Year’s Day. It argues perseverance, support from others, and learning from life’s hard lessons as paths to better habits, noting habit’s roots in youth and ignorance and praising self-improvement.
A short verse from Marguerite M. Hillery age 4 appears in St. Nicholas celebrating the end of the Old Year and the arrival of the New Year. The poem muses on time aging, snow, and memories as the old year departs.
Meadowbrook-Slow fine this world should be if we should all keep the good resolutions we make on New Year's day, instead of breaking ther all within a week. Hempstead-Yes! I guess the few days after New Year's, eac yet, will be about as near as we will ever get to the millennium.
Clarissa voices relief that New Year’s Day is over while Fidelia calls the day a sorrowful anniversary. Clarissa insists she does not mean that, noting that Clarence and she always have a sharp quarrel over suggested improvements in each other’s conduct.
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