Christmas Contrast: Abundance Now and 1930s Memory
The piece reflects on this Christmas as abundant yet restrained for many Americans, especially grandparents relying on Social Security. It recalls the 1930s era of WPA, CCC, breadlines, and high unemployment, contrasting past hardships with modern gains in production, security, equality, and minimum wages, while noting lingering lessons and cautious optimism.
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General Motors
Works Progress Administration
WPA
Civilian Conservation Corps
Wrist Watches Rise After 1900 Popularity Surge
The wrist watch did not become popular until the turn of the 20th century. Britannica notes about 50 wrist watches exist for every pocket watch today.
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Encyclopaedia Britannica
Ruby Unable to Take More Tests In Ruby Case
Dallas AP reports Jack Ruby appeared unable to answer further questions as authorities pressed for details on his claim that he acted alone in the killing of Lee Harvey Oswald.
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Ruby
Dallas
Tex
Jack Ruby
Lee Harvey Ose
John F. Kennedy
Andrew L. Smith
Ruth Verification, Inc
Smith
Parkland Hospital
Oswald
Gadsden
Ala
Viet Nam
Dear Abby column readers weigh in on relationship schemes
Advice column items include a neighbor urged to trigger jealousy with a fake scene, a dig at Abby’s photo, nurse introductions for visitors, and a note on a cancer patient and polygraph tests amid Kennedy assassination coverage. The page blends fan letters, roguish quirks, and public health notes.
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Abby
Tradition says it is the woman who pays in time
The line hints at shifting duties when wealth arrives, imagining many hoping the current present never becomes past, as money and tradition reshape power and expectations.
How It Was Named Mississippi River source Itasca origin
The Mississippi River source Lake Itasca in northern Minnesota was named by explorer Henry Schoolcraft in 1832 from Latin veritas meaning truth and caput meaning head. Chippewa legend says Itesk ka, daughter of Hiawatha, was carried to the region of darkness and her tears formed the river.
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International Falls
Minn
Lake Itasca
Minnesota
Henry Schoolcraft
Itesk-ka
Hiawatha
Chebiabo
Netherworld
Mississippi
Desert Bighorn Sheep Population in Arizona Leads U.S.
Arizona hosts an estimated 2,600 desert bighorn sheep likely the largest state total. The national population of bighorn sheep is under 8,000 across the United States.
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Arizona
Union
United States
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