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Excerpt from The Brethren Evangelist, 1935, Vol. 57 A little newspaper out in Poplar Bluff, Missouri, has a custom of several years standing not to print any unsavory and unpleasant news on the day before Christ mas. Once a year, therefore, the readers find no word of any crime, broken homes, disease plagues, kidnapping, wars, financial tragedies, etc. Such'a custom, in such a world as ours today, is merely a pleasant ight from real ity for the space of 24 hours. After that we come back to things as they are. And doubtless the readers of the Missouri paper will have to read just twice as much, on the day after Christmas, of crime and trag edy. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.