New Year's Mummers Parade Dazzles Philadelphia Host City
In Philadelphia the New Year parade features lavish robes valued in the thousands, worn by kings and their pages as Camden New Jersey sends delegations for prizes. Costumes are designed months in advance by a corps of dressmakers, with trains so heavy that kings sometimes faint. The procession includes jesters, ladies in waiting, knights, and a sprawling crowd along the broad streets.
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United States
Camden
N. J
Philadelphia
New Orleans
New Year Parade Delights Philadelphia With Colorful Pageant
The New Year celebration in Philadelphia unfolds as crowds cheer a parade of mummers and "shooters" through the streets. Festive clubs march past judges, prize money funds costumes, and spectators gaze at tall figures, airship imitators, and robed revelers while police report a quiet day after.
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Individus
Maine
Airship Corps
Philadelphia
Old Time New Year Calls Remembered by a Dapper Rover
The speaker recalls bygone New Year customs of heavy hospitable calling. He describes two hundred to three hundred visitors, tables laden with turkey oysters jelly ham cigars and wine, and polite exchanges of bows and coffee.
Origin of Lacemaking Legend in European Peasant Folklore
A romantic tale explains lace origins among European peasants. A lover brings a leaf to his betrothed, who treasures it until he goes to war and never returns. She attempts to reproduce the delicate pattern with needle and thread, giving birth to lace.
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Europe
Wealthy Youth Pursue Ordinary Jobs to Escape Social Duty
New York cenens visiting homes of the rich report fac of sons and daughters taking up regular work. Misa So and Co, daughter of a Wall Street banker, becomes a milliner apprentice while Jack and Marty, offspring of a Broadway financier, work in an electrical factory and a locomotive works. The Herald notes hundreds of wealthy youths voluntarily seek modest salaries to escape constant social obligations and seek relief in employment.
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New York
Misa So-and-Co
Jack
Marty
0 Electrical Company
The
New York Herald
Oxford expedition begins study of cannibal island natives
An Oxford University expedition led by David Jenness departs to Goodenough Island in British New Guinea to spend a year examining local native habits. The volcanic island, about forty by thirty miles with peaks to 8000 feet, is famed for cannibalism reports and largely unmapped interior.
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British New Guinea
Oxford University
South Seas
David Jenness
Balliol College
Goodenough Island
Possum Farming Gains International Recognition
Australia honors the possum for its commercial value with new farms. A dedicated possum farm opens in Victoria’s eucalyptus country and Western Australia forms a breeding company across about 200000 acres.
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Australia
Victoria
Western Australia
Unremitting Constancy Quote Sparks Old Debt Gag
Etbel notes Algernon's unremitting constancy toward Madge as George calls it his great specialty. The Brook lyn Eagle records a joke about Algernon owing ten dollars for two years.
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Etbel
Algernon
Madge
George
Brooklyn Eagle
The New Phone Brings Early Morning Surprise
John awake on New Year’s to a long distance call from Mary. She reveals a home telephone is now in place and can reach him any time. A misunderstanding over the call ends with Mary wishing him a happy New Year before the line cuts to a central exchange.
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Mary
Fen
John
Thev
Central
Grass by Panama slopes may prevent slides
The Panama Canal may gain grassy slopes to stop landslides. H Pittier of the Smithsonian leads tests with seed from Washington to cover exposed banks and cut slopes. If effective, grass cover could curb erosion and reduce ground loss during heavy rains.
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Panama Canal
H. Pittier
Smithsonian Institution
Agricultural Department
Washington
Peru
Oldest and Largest University El Azhar Cairo
The oldest and largest university in the world is El Azhar in Cairo. Founded in 075 it remains a national institution with the khe dive as rector. Entrance requires at least fifteen years of age and mastery of half the Koran. the curriculum is theology and canon law with final exams after fifteen years of matriculation.
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El-Azhar
Cairo
Khedive
Cupid Counting the Cost and a Dentist Visit
A humorous montage opens with Flo facing a painful toothache and a dentist appointment, then shifts to a child’s question about a woman “wetting her cap” for marriage, a teacher testing his voice, and a playful New Year’s resolution about kissing. The piece closes with a Cleveland Plain Dealer quip about doorbell peddlers and bill collectors.
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Cupid
Judge's Library
East End
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Exhibition Attracts Counterfeit Bione Worries
A Boston Record note hints at an aviator's claim of a scare during a display and reports on suspected counterfeit Bione prepared for an exhibition, raising reader concern over authenticity and safety.
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Boston Record
Hartford Clergyman Honors Late Charles Battell Loomis
A Hartford clergyman eulogizes the humorist Charles Battell Loomis noting his light hearted view of life. He recalls Loomis’ remark about a dubious Roander and reflects on Loomis being “all right” despite financial trouble.
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Hartford
Charles Battell Loomis
Loomis
Obscure Text Snippet Appears From Fragmentary Exchange
A fragmentary dialogue shows a speaker claiming a Volvo is busy with something and another answers yes. The garbled exchange suggests a beaded or misspelled transcription with no clear context or identifiable event.
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Atlanta Constitution
By Algert B. Lewis
Panama
Aearty
Flo
Juat
Weil
Cornell
Bessie
Jessie
Apellblader
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