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Yes, 
Christmas is 
drawing very 
near. Then let 
us with one 
hand _ tenderly 
cling to the old 
year of prosperity, 
to others, one of ad- 
versity and sorrow. As 
we look back over past 
events we cannot fail to note 
the absence of many that were 
with us a year ago. But now 
they are gone, been 
called 
home. 
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B. F. Keith’s Theatre 
A splendid holiday bill of  all- 
star vaudeville is announced for 
the week beginning with Christmas 
Day at B. F. Keith’s Theatre. No 
less than four splendid features 
of headline calibre are included, 
among them being the Old Soldier 
Fiddlers, composed of Col. J. A. 
Pattee, two boys in blue, and two 
sons of Dixie. These fiddlers can- 
not read a note of music, playing 
entirely ‘‘by air,’’ as they call it. 
They all fought at Gettysburg, and 
by a strange co-incidence their 
regiments were opposed to one an- 
other. B. A. Rolfe’s ‘‘Leading 
Lady’? is a big musical comedy 
with Marguerite Haney, Ralph 
Lynn, and a company of pretty 
girls. This is one of the best tabloid 
musical plays ever seen in vaude- 
ville, and Ralph Lynn, the comedian 
from the London Gaiety, manages 
to keep his audiences in a constant 
scream of laughter all the time he 
is on the stage. Alber’s Polar 
Bears, the largest and finest group 
of the species in captivity, have 
just completed a long engagement 
at the New York Hippodrome. Al- 
bert Hole, the celebrated English 
boy soprano, will be another fea- 
ture, and others to appear are Ar- 
thur Pickens and company in a 
comedy sketch, and the McGinnis 
Brothers, Dancing Cadets. 
A Prose Poem on the Printing Press 
I am the printing-press, born of 
the mother earth. My heart is of 
steel, my limbs are of iron, and my 
fingers are of brass. 
I sing the songs of the world, 
the oratories of history, the Sym- 
phonies of all time. 
I am the voice of today, the 
herald of tomorrow. I weave into 
the warp of the past the woof of 
A Newspaper that Educates 
A New England Journal of Influence 
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dren, how much they knew about 
the conduct of the larger world 
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the future. I tell the stories of 
peace and war alike. 
I make the human heart beat 
with passion or tenderness. I stir 
the pulse of nations, and make 
brave men do braver acts, and sol- 
diers die. 
I inspire the midnight toiler, 
weary at his loom, to lift his head 
again and gaze, with fearlessness, 
into the vast beyond, seeking the 
consolation of a hope eternal. 
When I speak a myriad people 
listen to my voice. The Saxon, the 
Celt, the Hun, the Slav, the Hindu, 
all comprehend me. 
T am the laughter and tears of 
the world, and I shall never die un- 
til all things return to immutable 
dust. Pie 
T am the printing-press. 
Salem Commercial School Winter 
Term 
Regular sessions of Salem Com- 
mercial School will be resumed 
January 1, 1912, at which time new 
students may begin their work. 
Salem Commercial School is meet- 
ing with the most gratifying suc- 
cess in its history. More pupils are 
in attendance than ever before. Its 
courses have been remodeled and 
revised and present the very latest 
in accountancy and_ stenography. 
The employment department is do- 
ing far more than that of any other 
school in New England. Open 
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