A Dutch New Year in Mohawk Valley Customs
New Year merriment among early Dutch settlers in Mohawk valley featured bushel baskets of New Year cakes and hearty hospitality. Milk men carried cakes in bushel baskets while houses opened to all, rum teddy and wine served in moderation, and three to four hundred cakes were shared from the Glen estate. Outsiders later transformed the day into a raucous celebration in towns.
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Mohawk Valley
Jon
Barent
Bjbertje
Bagletje
Heaven
Alexander Lindsey Glen
Scotia
Glen Mansion
Esch
Teddy
New York Times
New Year Injustice in a City Saloon
In a grand beer saloon on New Year’s Day a lean owner informs two bartenders they will be laid off for two weeks as customers swear off drinking. The piece notes the widespread New Year’s pledge harms saloon workers, with the boss explaining layoffs occur during January’s lean period while many swear off.
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John
Harry
Jim
Broad Land
Philadelphia Bulletin
The Children of China Celebrate New Year
In China New Year is the Little Ones Great Festival a time when beggar children roam for coins while those with families stay indoors or play in courtyards. The holiday features flags lanterns and firecrackers with children dressed in bright clothes and braided hair, walking with parents to theaters as they appear grown up for the occasion.
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China
Goyt
Nicholas
New Year Celebrations Stretch Across Japan Tradition
New Year in Japan lasts from December 13 to January 16, a prolonged holiday with apprentices' festivities. A traditional stew of red beans, rice, sliced fish and konnyaku is eaten. The piece also notes a humorous exchange about plans and patience within a family.
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Japan
A Persuader Did you make any New Year s resolution
Miss Miami Brown asks if resolutions exist. Mr Erastus Pinkley replies no but claims he persuaded Miskah Colli to change her mind after a meeting at Gelas parlor. He says she would stop trying to pick eaten Trobever and others.
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Miss Miami Brown
Erastus Pinkley
Miskah Colliflower
Gelas
Revised Version The House and The New York Sabes
A garbled item recalling a house scene and various roles such as janitor, baker, and bootmaker. The text references New York figures and an assortment of unclear names while describing a setting involving a house and characters.
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Berm
Bellber
Butcher Boss
Baker Boy
Bootbinck
Ine
Eheweetor Mney
Srmuhey
Tatatnians
Sabes
New Tork
Airship to Horseback Then Car In Times Past
A collage traces fashion and transport from baby wings to aeroplane, a scarlet motor car, and a dandy in high society, then shifts to observers welcoming year end and year start with resolutions, citing Pliny and a St Louis Globe Democrat note on old customs.
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Pliny
St. Louis Globe Democrat
New Year Customs in Balkan Lands Reported
The Boston Herald describes varied Balkan practices for New Year celebrations. In Herzegovina people duck drunken men or borrow a prisoner to duck and release. In Oman marriages are held 11 days hence, boosting business with go-betweens. In Dalmatia men of poor conduct must present written resolutions to the neighborhood priest, with copies given to wives or mothers.
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Herzegovina
Oman
Dalmatia
Bostom Herald
Why We Call It January.
The Romans named January for Janus and marked the new year with rites and gifts while pledging loyalty to Caesar. Alpine New Year customs include a pastor’s sermon, distant travelers, snow dangers, and bells that echo through valley churches in harmony.
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Janus
Grables
Caesar
Alps
Scotch Knives and the Bells That Ringed Hearts
A look back at a popular old Scottish custom where young men ring bells at doors and gain the right to kiss the answering girl, with no option to avoid the salutation even if the girl was old or unattractive.
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Bushel Basket
Matutinas
Minna Irving
Pendleton’s Big Store
Toyland
Oregon
the Peoples Warehouse
Pendleton
Athena
Somo
N. A. Miller
Athana
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Tum-A-Lum Lumber CO
A. M. Johnson
Walla Walla
Toucchet and
Lowdon, Wash
Adams and
Freewater
Ae Reggae
Paice
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