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Give gifts kids will love (The Oklahoman)
It’s a Christmas scenario all parents dread: After the effort and expense of shopping, their child gets more excited about the crumpled wrapping paper and empty box than the actual present.From high-tech stuffed animals to environmentally friendly tea sets, this holiday season offers many creative gift ideas for parents willing to look beyond the usual options.Everyone loves a puppet show, and ...
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LIFE'S LIKE THAT: Toys: A rite of passage (Chambersburg Public Opinion)
It's that time of year when the catalogs -- or what is left of the toy catalog world -- start filling the mailbox and the newspaper. The children browse through them as I tune out a steady stream of "I want that" and "Oh, I want that, too" and "I want this."
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Tarrant County catalog's gifts keep giving - to charity (Dallas Morning News)
By ANNETTE NEVINS / Special Contributor to The Dallas Morning News Annette Nevins is a freelance writer in Plano.
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Education update (Pacific Daily News)
Nov. 27: Thanksgiving Day holiday, no classes.
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Vivid memories of Christmases long past (The St. Charles Sun)
Ah, for those simpler times, when Christmas trees were real and shopping meant paging through the Sears catalog and heading to the F.W. Woolworth five-and-dime store.
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ARTIFACTS OF WAR (The Monterey County Herald)
When sailors from the Defense Language Institute at the Presidio of Monterey showed up Oct. 4 to help at a fish fry at American Legion Post 41, they were shown a room crammed with military memorabilia spanning the legion post's history through six wars. Rifles — a Japanese Arisaka, a U.S.
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Remembrances of Christmas past (The Beacon News)
Ah, for those simpler times, when Christmas trees were real and shopping meant paging through the Sears catalog and heading to the F.W. Woolworth five-and-dime store. Author Rochelle Pennington, who has written about the famous Christmas tree ship that delivered the holiday greenery to Chicago, spoke at the St. Charles Public Library last week about her newest book, An Old Fashioned Christmas.
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Household gets buried in catalogs (Worcester Telegram & Gazette)
The season has begun with a swish and a thud: the sound of catalogs sliding through the mail slot and landing on the floor in a flurry of unaffordable pages.
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Tom Brady Teams Up With OLPC (PC World)
Injured quarterback is buying 1,500 low-cost computers and will send them overseas.
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City notes (The Naperville Sun)
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