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Newspaper
Winchester News
Location
Winchester, Kentucky, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1908
Page
12
In Hesse Nassau a Schwalm district study notes boys wear brimless cheese-box hats and kilts like Highlanders while girls don several stiff hooplike skirts and pill box hats with chin bands. An outdoor Christmas dance gathers villagers. boys bow to chosen partners, then a lively vigorous dance follows under festive silence.
The fragment praises fruit from a Chrisiige tree noting peach snrappe plumens pear are nice but urges focus on the fruit that grows on the Chrisiige tree. The text presents a playful, nonsensical list with emphasis on the Chrisiige fruit.
Uncle Henry praises Susie for improving in piano and decides to give her a real nice Christmas present for her hard work.
A New England town received a festive package addressed to Roy the collie last Christmas. Inside was a large bone with meat, sent by a girl who had spent the summer there and grown fond of the dog. Roy, aided by friends, expressed gratitude via telegram: Many thanks for the bone and many happy returns.
A new three legged style of race requires no tying and allows girls to participate with no danger. Two nimble girls can beat two boys as they hop along holding the raised left foot of the companion in front. The fastest hopper wins a Christmas gift as the prize.
A retold verse tale shows Mother Hubbard finding a grand crowd at her door with gifts to fill her cupboard. Various fairy tale figures bring food, but her dog wastes away from overeating, delivering a cautionary moral: eat to live rather than live to eat.
A holiday party game uses a large brown tissue pie crust with attached letter ribbons. Children pull threads to reveal letters that spell A MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR when arranged correctly.
Poles and eastern Europeans celebrate Christmas by masquerading as birds and beasts. Keepers lead costumed actors from house to house where carols are sung and gifts of cakes and sausages are given. the procession repeats at each stop.
The readable words show a jumble about getting into bed and small socks with an exclamation of nothing at all. Names, dates, places, or concrete events are not discernible in the fragment.
On Christmas Eve four stockings of as many sizes are depicted. A magistrate questions each stocking who, with knitted brows, admits boldly that they ran away with a foot, despite attempts to escape.
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