New Year's Eve in Big Cities Mixes Noise and Rush
The piece notes how New Year’s Eve prompts urban chaos from New York to Chicago, with Broadway and State Street packed, horns and tin horns in use, cars weaving through revelers, and clubs and restaurants racing for tables. It contrasts upscale venues with affordable eateries where prices vary, yet each group follows its own version of the holiday celebration.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Broadway
Gotham
Coney Island
Chicago
State Street
van Buren
Randolph
New Year Celebrations Across the World Through Time
The article traces shifting New Year practices from ancient times to the modern era. It contrasts purifying worship and restraint with drunken revelry, explains calendar reforms in 1752, and maps greeting times across Greenwich, Australia, Japan, Korea, India, and Europe as the year turns. It notes calendar quirks and the possibility of a ship crossing the date line twice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Greenwich
Siberia
New Zealand
Australia
Japan
Yellow Kingdoms
Angwangi
Santa Claus
Malay Peninsula
India
Perth
Calcutta
Bombay
Moscow
St. Petersburg
Multiple Crises Sweep Nation in Christmas Era Reports
Reports detail bank robbery at Halls Summit Kansas netting $3000, a treaty signing for arbitration with Salvador, a $10000 bill found in St Louis, a major fire wiping out Ravia Oklahoma, and a deadly clash between miners and marshals in Kentucky. Additional items note a child crushed in Chicago, a mysterious Sonora illness, feuds and murders in the Carolinas, and a surge in naval rankings.
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Nobbers
Halls Summit
Kans
Root
Mojia
Salvador
Patrick
Sullivan
East
St. Louis
Ravia
Okla
Castro
United States
Stearns
Elmer A. Birdseye
George Birdseye
Seattle
Wash
Boston
Chicago
Hermosillo
Sonora
C. R. Moore
W. T. Smith
Smith
Bishopville
S. C
France
Spain
Portugal
Arenean
Joseph Krauskopf
Keneseth Israel Temple
Philadelphia
Harvey Hazel
Toledo
Montana Cab and Messenger Service
L. Carroll
Mollie Hillman
Europe
Greenfield
van Dwight Sheldon
Lockport
N. Y
School of Engineering
New York University
Tnean Snow
New York City
Cheat River
Uniontown
Cripple Creek
Colo
Arthur J. Lake
Tony Cuaz
Frank Taylor
Cuaz
United States Navy
P. U. Pullstier
Senate Navy Committee
Germany
Ja Rans
Pear Locke
Jesse B. Cook
San Francisco
Board of Police Commissioners
W. 3. Blegg
Cordelia Botkin
J. P. Dunning
Wilmington
Del
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Sherman
Constantinople
LWIA
CAL
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