The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1912-12-25
Greetings on Every Tongue
As shoppers Enlivcn
the City.
BRIGHT MOON Is
FULL OF PROMISE
Cleaned-out Stores Of Many
Merchants Tell of Pros
perity and Busy Night for
Good Old Santa Claus
Order Preserved Through
out-Plenty Of Noise.

VIII plenty ~ money N ssfdenrs.
fireworks banging in every direction.
merry throng of Christfnsf shoppers
lendinE action 70 every street and
highway. holly IN Uroniuion. = eisar
sky. f1il moon and iust enough chuA
% mako % seem llhr Christmas csc,
last nisht was one 0f the busiest and
most colorfui n the history ~ Pen-
sacoia.
Certainty it .p'as the sreatvst % su
Christmas cvcs.
u vas a great DAY for ne aman hov
lnd hif littic sister. Both were diicI
with eager anticipation from early
morn gnul the moon rose upon sli-
Nercd roofs. giving the best possible
opportunity 20 sec Santa Claus Lots
of the youngsters could not e. 20
sleep until careful mamnaa anUw the
window blinds 80 The rotund Qid chap
could Ect about and attend 20 Als
useni business ~ travelling over tha
cntirc wcrid IN une might and Rcttina
~ ana out two.hv-four chimneyk with
AZ eifht-hy- twelve girth and q Eix-
tesn-eT -fwenty-four pack upop his
n vas nm, duv fsr nuyor nsn,.
white Foilx e and nom he aparf-
meuts I'm the ". ~ e. A. to hit oTes
IN rhe ctsv hnn ~ heari constant re-
ports which inferred that hts last proc
lamation had been enthusiastically re-
ceived TIE figured Il cut that Iuve-
nifty was celebrating over his an-
nouncnmont that fireworks would 10
permitted from midnight last nlwht
nnul the closo ~ the holiday week.
They spent the day celebrating the
proclamation and will have ths entire
week 90 shoot on v.hat arc irft IN
fulnning g.
About twelve O'Clock there vas Do
lack - evidence that there are plenty
lefi and today prumisc4 % he as noisy
a. the neirhhcrhood 70 Chinese mis-
H'pn in Philadelphia on'the Fourth -
July.
For che merchants of pcnaacola IL
has been the busiest and most prolt-
able Christmas rush thuv ever eNperf.
enned. None of them minded me least
that they worked sixteen hours . dar
the hnsi shopping daya or that ther
we're 80 busy planning they Couidn't
sleep the other eight
ono place On fhe cifV had runn un
r.f95 on the cash-reainter un 10 p
O'Clock last might and THAI didnt rep-
resent nearly aH the business of tha
dHA. Othrr merchants. uhiir not be-
iuE able tO give figures did admit tlsv
bad found t necessary % set new
caHh-rngistUru ug 80 wore down their
hmgernaila they won't have q manicura
hin FOR two weeks
Tor those IN the city ffal Ind pleas
ere In Swing and Soy In recoivinn lt
was also q hiE day. Cor the rcducod
stocks ~ the tradeamen essentially
hsapsak reuoral prosperity and mary
happy homes
There win Hn Christmas this Yrsr
where there waH never Christmas he-
f0ro-verv much Christmas. anyway.
While about the town huyinn ne
things 10 on out their rift lists srA
feeling q happy thrill with ths invest
ment ~ each dime ur dollar there wef@
fow that di6 not think ~ ne iosn for.
tunnta and put n little silver nre un-
Ger The hnilinE caidroua ~ me saliva
ton Army ur contribute their mite -
the blind musicians. lhs unfortunats
cripple ~ che worthy street hawknr
FurrcaHfH ~ unpleasant uoatbar
were HhupiiY dirslpated - ~ nppoNr-
anoca when tns nenr-fun moon arama