A Bright New Year Poem Echoes Through Bells
A lyrical New Year verse bids farewell to the Old Year and greets the bright year ahead. It invokes bells and singing, hoping for joy, gratitude, and blessings for loved ones and all listeners in the fresh year.
New Year Gift Ideas: Whiskbroom Holder and Work Box
A self-contained guide offers two craft items for New Year gifts. A whiskbroom holder uses denim circles, Persian trim, and gold braid with a back loop for hanging. A novel work box recycles old suede gloves, focusing on a soft, plain surface with possible embroidery.
Glove Making Instructions From Past Pattern Card
Detailed steps for assembling a decorative glove with wadding, pasteboard pattern, and silk embellishments. Describes cutting, folding, tracing patterns, sewing edges, and finishing with silk cord detailing. Includes guidance for lining, pockets, and fitting each side to a square bottom.
Embroidered Light Craft Projects From Home Guide
Sewing steps detail side lining pockets and ribbon attachments for a finished look. Butter plate motif uses Kensington stitch on linen with fringe using slashed edges. A book mark set with ribbon colors and tassels explains assembly and gold thread finishing. Also notes lettering on ribbons with bronze powder and gum arabic for gold ink effects.
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Kensington
New Year in Ancient Egypt Observances
The Nile flood tied to Egypt’s new year between June 17 and 20 marked by the night of the drop. Priests watch the river at dawn, clear altars, light fires, and carry coals home to light hearths. People shed old garments, dress in white, anoint with sacred oil, crown with flowers, bear palms, and celebrate with chants and feasting.
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Yyousness
Egypt
Stear
Isis
The First Steps Wishes Vs. Purposes
A brief exhortation contrasts mere New Year wishes with concrete aims. It urges turning good intentions into plans and actions to uplift others and achieve personal progress rather than rely on wishful thinking.
Thousands of Centuries Reecho in the Horns To-Day
A long reflection traces the horn blast from Mount Sinai through Jewish liturgy and ritual to modern celebrations. It links the shephar and trumpet to lawgiving, war, and liberation, noting their sacred, national, and prophetic roles across ages and communities.
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Mount Sinai
Moses
Sven
Shephar
Malchioth
Sgormon
Isidore Myers
Montreal
Ephraim
Israel
Jad
Moab
Assyria
Ouluasta
Egypt
Holy Mount
Jerusalem
Helme
A Heavy Load to Carry and the Golden Medical Discovery
The text explains nervousness and poor health from a disordered stomach and thin blood. It promotes Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery as a non alcoholic tonic, claiming it aids digestion, strengthens blood, wards off germs, and supports recovery. Also mentions Dr Pierce's Pleasant Pellets for liver and stomach relief and digestion.
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Plere Golden
Promient
Pierce
R. V. Pierce
Laughing critic and a sailor of wit in London tale
In a London musical comedy stalls Clyde Fitch notes a box laugh as the author in that box reveals jokes he had not heard. An Irish worker Barney learns a hard lesson about pay and patience, finally saying he has learned that "seventeen hundred makes a ton." In Slipka Pass a Russian general stands amid hail of Turkish bullets, berating timid troops and spurring a fierce counterattack.
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London
Clyde Fitch
Fitch
Cricle
Barney
Slipka Pass
Dragomiroff
Reese
Man Swears Off Patent Medicines After Kidney Pills
Washington Kansas tale cites Jesse Mitchell a local resident who once cursed patent medicines but now praises Dodd's Kidney Pills after a twelve year kidney trouble. He describes back pain and fatigue before using four boxes, reporting renewed energy and no backache. He feels like a new man and as fresh at night as at work.
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Washington
Kans
Jesse E. Aitehell
Mr. Mitchell
Dodd
Fires and growth mark Joaquin Miller interview
In a rare 19th century exchange the Sierra poet Joaquin Miller, while describing Western progress, was interrupted by a reporter asking about Western city configurations. Miller quipped that Our fires are caused by the friction of rapid growth, underscoring his view of expansion.
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Joaquin Miller
Sierras
Unclear text with garbled dealer remarks
Garbled OCR fragment mentions tamer trial and selling something called cald witer ptarch. References to white lie and whitewashed terms appear, but content is incoherent and lacks discernible people, places, or events. No verifiable facts or entities to summarize clearly.
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