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EDMOND — Many well-known Christmas songs tell of the season’s joy, the holiday trimmings and trappings, but they do not mention the reason for the season.
Alan Day, senior pastor at the First Baptist Church of Edmond, said individuals can turn Christmas into “Xmas,” say “Happy Holidays” instead of “Merry Christmas” and decorate [...]

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FROM THE INGHAM PAPERS.
[When my friends of the Boston Daily Advertiser asked me last year to contribute to their Christmas number, I was very glad to recall this scrap of Mr. Ingham's memoirs.
For in most modern Christmas stories I have observed that the rich wake up of a sudden to befriend the poor, and that [...]

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PART I.
_A WOMAN’S PLAN._
‘My dear Mary,’ said I, one morning, to my widowed sister, as she sank into an arm chair in front of my library fire, and
heaved a sigh replete with exhaustion and sadness:
‘What is the matter?’
‘Enough for a woman, William, but of course, nothing for an old bachelor like you, who have only [...]

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Making one’s true love happy will cost a whopping $87,403 this year, a minuscule increase from last year, according to the latest cost analysis of the items in the carol “The Twelve Days of Christmas.”
That’s the grand total for everything from the partridge in a pear tree to the 12 drummers drumming, purchased repeatedly as [...]

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Any film starring a dog and airing for holiday-season consumption raises certain expectations—the right word is probably suspicions. All are borne out in the new, mercilessly affecting Hallmark Hall of Fame production (Sunday, 9-10:30 p.m EST on CBS) titled “A Dog Named Christmas.” (The film is based on the novel of the same name by [...]

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