30 Dec 1903
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Newspaper
Abbeville Press And Banner
Location
Abbeville, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1903
Page
1
A dated prose-poem depicts a snowy scene at home and in town. Family joys contrast with poverty’s quiet ache as health and hearths illuminate the season while hardship presses on the widow and the poor. The poem laments wealth without well being and celebrates love and home.
A correspondence describes travels to Pulacco to observe Hopi dances among Moqui people changing name usage and customs. Teachers, staff, and a St Louis Globe Democrat member join a dusty twenty mile journey, noting diverse visitors from Oxford professors to tourists, some paying entry and photography fees to witness the event.
A reporter describes the Mogul Indians two clans the Antelopes and the Snake men performing a major snake dance atop Mesas. The ceremony includes ritual prep nine days before, sacred meals, snake handling by carriers and huggers, and a thunder sound from a ritual rod. Spectators, both white and Native, watch from village roofs as dancers in carved costumes move in circles and chant a solemn cadence.
A garbled market item references Kerr Furniture Co and a promotional line about charm for entertainments. The readable text includes scattered phrases about a new or newly reached end, a reference to "a woman there is only one man" and "the world," but the overall meaning is unclear and fragmentary.
Thomas Lipton emerged from a coal dusted New York fur nance room era hunger for trade. He built a Chicago based food products business shipping 600 refrigerator cars and goods to the seaboard. His ventures expanded to supply every quarter of the globe, shaping a merchant empire.
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