New Year’s Mummers Parade Dazzles Philadelphia Crowd
Philadelphia gears up for the New Year parade of mummers with grand costumes valued in the thousands. Kings in ornate robes lead vast train of pages as bands and clowns swirl through Center City. Spectators see satire floats, daring stunts, and a heavy public celebration that lasts around a day.
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New Years
Philadelphia
New Orleans
Rome
Althugh
Maine
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Metropolitan Opera House
Philadelpha
City
Brooklyn Engle
New Year Customs Across Cultures and Time
A Philadelphia New Year's kindergarten game with bells and a New Year figure, followed by brief notes on Dutch colonial customs and Roman holiday flexibility. The piece cites the Philadelphia Ledger and Utica Observer, contrasting festive practices with Puritan restraint and early American interactions.
New Year's Eve in Romemarked by papal high Mass
In Rome on the last day of the year religious services are held at all churches, with the pope presiding at St. Peter's and his entourages present. The ceremony is described as imposing as bells ring out the old year, signaling the transition to the new.
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Philadelphia
Sam
Bella
Philadelphia Ledger
New Amsterdam
Manhattan
Holland
New England
Massachusetts
Utica
Rome
St. Peter's
Great Swear Off Declared Superior To Spotted Pup
Denver Republican reports a public meeting in Cactus Town deciding the Great Swear Off would not ban drinking or gambling. organizers found no need for a moral pledge after weighing excess carousing, cussing, and games of chance, concluding they led in the higher life and were better than Spotted Pup.
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Spotted Pup
Denver Republican
New Year's Calls Levelers of Social Barriers
A Chicago Tribune excerpt from January 2, 1873 notes New Year visits reveal social leveling as calls are made across class lines. It contrasts clerks with their bosses and rich hosts, describing streets crowded with carriages and the custom allowing the lower classes to enter the homes of the wealthy, with moral commentary on true nobility.
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Chicago Tribune
Dancing Round the Apple Tree Tradition Notes
A historical snippet describes Saxons dancing around an apple tree on New Year’s Eve and singing to usher in the new year. It recalls old customs with bells announcing the old year’s death and the new year’s birth, including door openings at midnight to bid farewell to the west and welcome the east.
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England
Live Boys in Mail Pouches Hazing in Pittsburg Postoffice
Postmaster W H Davin in Pittsburg reports a dangerous hazing ritual among new postal carriers. Older boys lock recruits in mail sacks and shoot them down chutes into mail wagons, causing near smothering as pouches mix with regular mail. Specials defend the practice as rite of passage, while Davin threatens prosecutions and seeks safer tasks.
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Pittsburg
Davis
Special Delivery Department
West
Ind
Alba
Novel Figures In Cotillon Of Eighty Introduced In New York
The second Cotillon Of Eighty in Delmonico's ballroom drew about 200 guests. New figures by Ferrars H. Tows and George C. Mittendorf featured illuminated dances and festive props. Dancers, guests, and governors hosted supper after midnight amid holiday themed effects and Christmas trees.
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Delmonico
New York
New York Times
Ferrars H. Tows
Dorothy Vernon Ruston
George C. Nichols
George C. Mittendorf
Gladys Clarkson
Mr. Tows
Posillon
Silk Dresses for Hulking Labor in Corn Belt
Minos schemes to save the corn crop by paying silk dresses to laborers. Near Morrisonville Illinois a young farmer offered his wife a silk dress to help husk 75 bushels in one day, inspiring many dresses among rural workers. Also, an Omaha theater now checks cigar butts to boost patronage, with no cigarette butts found so far.
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Minos
Carmi
Indianapolis News
Tony van Reeder, Jr
Morrisonville
Omaha
New York Evening World
A Clever Ruse Reveals Pearl Merchant's Quick Trick
A Parian merchant sought a Yokohama firm’s name via a banker and used a ruse with a list of ten firms. The banker refused direct disclosure, but by checking the list the merchant identified the one genuine firm. The banker’s caution prevented responsibility, but the man deduced the correct firm from the playful test.
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Gable
Paria
Japan
Yokohama
Orm
Ling
Fim
Strange Wishes Lion and Elephant Dishes Across Cultures
A historical note discusses exotic meats including lions, tigers, and elephants. It contrasts Indian beliefs and Brahma and Buddha practices with European views, citing reports that tiger meat is tough and sinewy and elephant flesh is controversial, with even Stanley claiming varied taste.
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India
Bret
Stanley
Pays to Be Kind Ends in Generous Will
Special dispatch reports that Louis B. Austin of May's Landing New Jersey receives $160,000 from aged John Caywood of Lewistown Pennsylvania who left his estate valued around $800,000 divided equally between Austin and Caywood's daughter.
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Lewistown
Louis B. Austin
May's Landing
N. J
Bays 9
Special Dispatch
New York World
Caywood
Austin
Roosevelt creates Arkansas National Forest in Arkansas
President Roosevelt has signed a proclamation creating the Arkansas National Forest in the western central part of Arkansas. It covers more than 1,000,000 acres and will be the farthest east of the government’s forests.
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New National Forest
Roosevelt
Arkansas National Forest
Arkansas
Washington Dispatch
Short Stories and Oddities Around the Nation
Turnips grown near Dawi son Alaska weigh fifteen pounds. Quon Chong a Race street Philadelphia Chinese provision merchant cultivates celery in a cellar and makes large profits from his sales. A seven foot eight inch Russian eagle shot near Denver. said to be the second ever seen in the United States. Dr Andrew Draper New York commissioner of education notes higher literacy in New York than in several European nations. An old gentlemen of Milton New Brunswick held a reunion and dinner with fourteen present.
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Alaska
Quon Chong
Race Street
Philadelphia
Denver
United States
Andrew 8. Draper
New York
Germany
France
Great Britain
Switzerland
Scandinavia
Japan
Milton, N. B
Ancient customs and personal peril in a disjointed note
Fragmentary text references a gift to a friend and sympathy for Miss Manley, then shifts to ancient customs among tribes with a mention of Askleplas and an Aboriginal context. It also notes a subscription label indicating paid status and month, urging careful record keeping.
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Wickers
Askleplas
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