New Orleans Battle Remembers Jackson Defending City
A Chicago Inter Ocean account recounts how General Andrew Jackson defended New Orleans on New Year’s Day 1813 with 4000 American troops and 20 artillery pieces against a British force of 7000 with fifty ships. The battle featured intense close quarters as Coffee’s Tennessee regiment and Jackson’s line repelled a major British assault, with key moments of hand to hand combat and a dramatic mistaken capture. American losses were 11 killed and 23 wounded, while 20 British were found dead and many more disabled.
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England
Chicago
Inter Ocean
Bloody New Year's Day and German Festive Origins
Helen Philbrook Datten notes in The Year's Festivals that New Year's customs are centuries old and traced to ancient Germans. A glimpse shows German festivity history, including Germanicus’s 14 campaign night raid on a village during a drinking festival to exhaust and capture its people.
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Helen Philbrook Datten
Germanicus
A Thought For the New Year Dean Stanley Quote
A New Year reflection urges individuals to improve their small circles, spreading happiness and influence to benefit the wider community and the civilized world, as voiced by Dean Stanley.
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Commonwealth
Dean Stanley
Longtime Tenn. man touts arnica salve for nasal sores
W. L. Rawls of Bells Tennessee credits Bucklen's Arnica Salve with curing twenty years of nasal catarrh by easing internal swelling and soreness. He reports the soreness vanished after applying the salve to the sore surface and never returned. Available at Kirk Drug Company for 25 cents.
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W. L. Rawls
Bells, Tenn
Kirk
Caesar Reforms Calendar After Roman Misrule
The piece traces how Roman pontiffs manipulated intercalary months to aid their factions, causing calendar chaos. Julius Caesar, with Sosigenes, redesigned the calendar in 46 B C to fix the year, aligning New Year roughly but not exactly with the solstice and using a new moon as a starting marker.
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Julius Caesar
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Caesar
Sosigenes
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New York Evening Post
New Year Resolutions for Women from 1920s Arts Column
The article quotes Nicola Greeley Smith citing a set of witty resolutions for women, framed as playful self guidance. It reflects contemporary social attitudes toward love, appearance, and independence with a nod to G. Bernard Shaw and a New York World tone.
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G. Bernard Shaw
Nicola Greeley Smith
New York World
First Pins and New Year Gifts in Gloucester History
The article notes pins were first invented and popular as New Year gifts in the sixteenth century. Women in Gloucester exchanged pins from local factories until the custom shifted to pin money as the exchange.
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Gloucester
New Year Times Across the Pacific Line
The piece explains how New Year celebrations align across the United States and territories, detailing time zones from San Juan to Guam and Manila. It notes the international date line’s path around the Aleutians, Hawaiian, and Philippine areas, and cites a Greenwich noon framework for synchronized toasts.
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Guam
Porto Rico
Philippines
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Manila
South Pacific
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North Pacific
Aleutian Islands
Pacific Ocean
New York Press
New Year Forgiveness Rite burns sins for fresh starts
Margaret Hubbard Ayer reports from New York World on a New Year's Eve ritual where families burn lists of sins and past mistakes. Each member writes down flaws then sets them ablaze, symbolizing renewal and a shared pledge to improve while erasing others faults from memory.
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Margaret Hubbard Ayer
New York World
Why Bells Ring On New Year’s Eve Through Ages
A centuries old custom shows bells rung to greet the New Year, signal justice, call worshippers and frighten away the devil. From China to Europe bells served public alerts before becoming symbols of rejoicing, with Pope John X ordering bells to ward off thunder and Satan at year’s start.
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St. Louis
Harmony Among the Black Imp and Angel Cart Verse
The verse depicts the Black Imp, Angel, and a calm, patient figure as they move in rhythm through changing weather. They manage to agree and walk together, sharing a single path and a quiet companionship through Jennerwerry and beyond. The third of Jennerwerry marks a turning moment as the Angel smiles and the Imp offers his hand, then they continue in step for the year.
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Jennerwerry
Sam Walter Foss
Boston’ Globe
New Year Fires Across Europe Traditions
In Wales fires blaze to usher in the new year and are kept burning into the next. In old German belief a sun god brought warmth each year and a giant bonfire in the market still symbolises this. People gather to discard items, with youths casting pipes and maidens burning love letters as midnight nears while dancing and shoutingHealth to the New Year.
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Wales
Germany
Foley's Honey and Tar Claimed To Cure Longstanding Asthma
Mrs Adolph Buesing of Davenport Iowa reports a twelve year battle with asthma ended by Foley's Honey and Tar after a single fifty cent bottle. She says medical care offered only temporary relief and she would have saved years of suffering if she had used it earlier. The testimonial appears in Storie and Patton.
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Foley
Adolph Buesing
West Third St
Davenport
Towa
Missouri Supreme Court Sides With Trust in Purchases Ruling
A Missouri Supreme Court decision holds that buyers are not required to pay for goods bought from a trust. The ruling notes potential circumvention by trusts to ship goods and avoid payment obligations.
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Missouri Supreme Court
New Year Celebrations in Old New York City
An Evening Post reminiscence recalls a New Year’s Day in New York when mornings were busy and streets crowded with well dressed visitors. Hosts offered abundant food and drink as crowds moved from house to house, some tipsy by day’s end, yet the scene was once considered proper.
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New York City
New York
Evening Post
Unclear Bourbon Era Tale Described In Pictured Street Reverie
Fragmentary notes describe a festive scene in a French city during a king's reign. The text evokes New Year celebrations and public feasting for the poor, captured as a vivid ledger-like memory.
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France
President Roosevelt At White House Receives Crowd
President Roosevelt appears shaken as about 7,000 persons gather at the White House gate. Security keeps the door marked six closed while the scene of the nation’s reception unfolds with visible tension and concern.
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