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Boston Globe, December 25, 1920 . Brooklyn Citizen, December 24, 1920 . Chicago Tribune, December 24, 1920 . Daily British Whig (Kingston, ON), December 24, 1920 . La Presse, December 24, 1920 . London Free Press, December 24, 1920 . Oakland Tribune, December 25, 1920 . San Francisco Examiner, December 25, 1920 . St. Louis Star, December 24, 1920 . Washington Star, December 24, 1920 . Season's greetings to everyone, and enjoy your holiday in the most satisfying-under-the-present-circumstances way possible.  PS : Wonder what was happening in Toronto during the 1920 Christmas season? Check out Tales of Toronto . 

Source: the Mail and Empire , March 11, 1922. Click on image for larger version. An odd one-shot cartoon found on the crime and southwestern Ontario news page of the Mail and Empire . It appeared above the daily rundown of the previous day's proceedings at Osgoode Hall, none of which involved hold-ups. The only story with a vague connection to this illustration concerned two mail robberies in Essex County. In the first case, five men pleaded guilty to charges of "conspiring to rob Herbert Jacobs of Government mail at Tecumseh on February 15th." Severn Laforet, a bank teller, confessed to plotting the dastardly deed in order to cover a $2,000 shortfall in his accounts. One of those involved in the heist was also charged with two other men in an attempted hold-up of a mail car in Amherstburg. The oddest story from the Mail and Empire 's crime blotter came from the Chatham area, under the headline " INJURED BY VICIOUS SOW ." Roy Beamish, a farm hand e...

Found this cartoon while researching this weekend's edition of Historicist . I can sympathize with the frustrated diner -- a couple of months ago a friend and I experienced a lengthy delay at a Corktown brunch spot we had liked. Over an hour passed before we discovered our order had slipped through the cracks. Usually the 100-year wait while dining in Toronto is for the bill. I usually dash to the cash when it's time to go, regardless of the grumbly looks this occasionally inspires. Source: the News , December 31, 1887.

Dear readers: may you have better luck finding what you wanted under the Christmas tree than these people did a century ago ( I already have ). Unlike Bobby, little Jamie would have been happier receiving a well-illustrated "Lives of Great Men" (or "Lives of Great Hockey Players" or "Lives of Great B-Movie Character Actors") than a pair of skates that might kill my ankles. Source: the Globe , December 25, 1911

An all-too-familiar pattern of settling into a fine day of work. More about Gluyas Williams in an American Heritage profile . Source: The Telegram , May 28, 1928