Block · one region of the page, as the scanner read it. It may hold a whole story, part of one, several, or an advertisement; stitching blocks into articles is the next step. Text is supplied OCR.
Page 4 · column 1 of 6 · from the scan, no model involved
Christmas Cards Are Not Old Custom
Colorful Christmas cards today seem as much a part of Christmas tradition as does Santa Claus. Yet the custom of sending cheery Yuletide cards is only a little over a 100 years old.
Post offices are buried under the landslide of Christmas cards every holiday season. More than 1,500,000,000 Christmas cards will :be exchanged in the United States alone .this year, according to an estimate by the National Association *of Greeting Card Publishers.
The first known Christmas card was designed in 1842 in London, England, by William May Egley, a 16-year-old engraving apprentice. He printed only 100 copies and sent them to his friends.
His quainty cluttered card, printed in black ink on white papei£ showed a formal banquet, a party dance, skaters and a typically English pantomime performance. Underneath the illustrations he wrote, “A Merry Year To You”—still the most popular' Yuletide greeting among all those ever ^composed.
61.9%