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Newspaper
Yerington Times
Location
Yerington, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1918
Page
3
A humorous long list claims animals and birds played prominent roles in a great conflict. Parrots warned of air raids, horses and oxen performed tasks, and various creatures supposedly aided artillery, reconnaissance, and defense efforts amid a chaotic, fantastical account.
A Royal Journalist Journalian notes a revel recruit to the king of iam who wrote about Freedom of the Seas in a Siamese Journal. The piece ponders whether the author used ordinary Siamese or a Palace language designed to spare royal ears from crude terms while preserving national speech distinct from common usage.
Important to Mother examine every bottle of Castoria for the signature of the maker. Chicago, a diamond center, becomes a key hub during the war as the United States absorbs most South African mined diamonds. New York houses several diamond cutting factories while Chicago hosts major diamond headquarters and Bouvet Inn building.
A garbled OCR snippet mentions hall, rates, surfaces and drugs but offers no coherent case details. Readable names or dates are absent, leaving only disjoint phrases about medicine and surfaces without a clear incident or outcome.
Morey Oexel alleges the presiding elder is shocked out of the window while claiming children are trying to kill one of their number. Neighbor Gap Johnson dismisses the claim saying the injured boy belongs to neighbors and sums up that the kid is prone to fights whenever healed.
Miss Hannah Turner of West Pitts Moss completes her hundredth sweater for the Navy since starting in December 1917. She knit at about one sweater every three days and was told in Boston that she had beaten any knitter in the United States. In spare moments she made mutilera and wristlets, a craft she began during wartime with no prior knitting experience.
The passage recounts Loki’s attempt to slay Baldur with mistletoe, myths of kissing under the plant, all heal legends and Druids rites, and tales of the plant’s sacred oak connections, parasitic nature, and regional spread from New Jersey southward in America.
The excerpt reflects on Christmas as a season prompting self examination and joy amid hardship. It contrasts a dissatisfied man tempted to sadness with winter’s reminder of loss, suggesting a smiling face as a noble response. Stevenson’s voice frames happiness as a moral posture during hard times.
A playful exchange features a sweet young thing and a bachelor as they speculate on a third floor youngster receiving a tin trumpet for Christmas. The bachelor plots to crush the toy underfoot, claiming the expected anticipation will lead to mischief and festive mischief.
A Bethlehem star shines with vivid light, outshining its first appearance as a joyous proof to all people. The message echoes through history, marking a timeless beacon of hope and faith.
The account notes the first Christmas inside a house on the American continent on December 25, 188, at Plymouth Massachusetts. Puritan settlers, 19 families, allocated house and garden lots but many faced cold outdoors. Despite harsh living, religious observances were fervent with prayers and songs to the Babe of Bethlehem.
Margaret Mott Gordon muses on Christmas spirit lasting beyond the season. She invites readers to give time and sacrifice for others, noting the joy in making others happy and the deeper fulfillment found in selflessness even as conflicts loom. The piece urges cultivating that spirit year round.
A historical note on St. Nicholas born December 6 312 in Lycia Asia Minor famed as patron saint of children girls and sailors. His secret gifts created the Christmas stocking custom when he dropped purses of gold through windows guiding a noble family’s daughters away from ruin.
A fragmentary verse piece evokes festive stars and Christmas bells. It calls for loving eyes and gifts and pure joy, urging happiness and warmth during the season.
The piece surveys Christmas beliefs in England France and other regions. It notes that brunettes crossing thresholds on Christmas morning is unlucky in England and Scotland, baking bread prevents mold, and turning a mattress on Christmas day brings bad luck for the year. Bees are said to sing at night and birds receive oats for Nativity goodwill. In Lyons a hospital ritual honors the first arriving baby with gifts, as a reflection of Bethlehem’s welcome.
Montreal man Hugh Russell completes a monumental handwritten Bible begun in 1888 and finished on St Andrew's day 1916. The manuscript spans 1,887 pages in a half‑print, peculiar writing style. Russell offers 100 dollars for any errors or omissions found.
Santa Fe claims a distinct American architectural form via the new Museum project. The design replicates six 300 year old Franciscan missions including Acoma and Pecos, preserving unity with fabric of Pueblo terraced houses. The Museum of New Mexico houses Taos and Santa Fe art colonies and rare historical collections.
A man falls for a woman he sees in a surface car and urges quick marriage with a taxi to a minister. He then phones a furniture store to furnish a three room apartment, moves in within ten minutes, and explains the rush by saying he has spent five years writing moving picture scenarios.
A collection of humorous quotes about thrift and charity. A boy jokes that giving junk away feels virtuous, and a boy complains about speaking proper English during a street corner conference.
Report on artificial coloring of goldfish by keeping them in water with certain chemicals. The practice is widely carried out, with avoidable risks noted as researchers call for tighter controls and more transparent methods.
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