The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1876-12-30
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4 Is now completed. With is eight hundred royal
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ST. NICHOLAS FOR 1871,
which opens with November, 1876 begins u Short
and very Entertaining Serial from the French, THE
Thanksgiving Season. Another serial. OF absorbing
interest TO boys, His Own Master" by J. T. Trow-
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Besides serial Stories, lively sketches poems and
pictures Tor the holidays, and some astonishing illus
Lrations Of Oriental sports with drawings by siamesc
LAS, superbly illustrated contains very interesting
paper, The Boys OF My Boyhood," by William Cui.
len Bryant The Horse Hotel" lively article by
Charles A. Barnard spcndidly illustrated 'The
Clock IN the sky by Richard A. Proctor; "a Christ
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ia r Hale; Poetry and Carols of Winter" by Lucy
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