New Year customs abroad amid festive rites and superstitions
The article surveys New Year traditions in Europe and Bulgaria, noting wreaths of luck, bonfires in Jena, clock vendors in Germany, Bavarian toasts, Welsh purification fires, Italian carts and bells, Swiss visits, and Bulgarian girl queen rites with rings dropped in a kettle as dawn approaches.
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Germany
Black Forest
Munich
Jena
Wales
Italy
Bulgaria
Lot
Getting Back
A barber complains about being pressured with mistaken products and services after a customer insists on affordable basics. The exchange highlights friction over expected goods and upsell attempts in a shop setting.
Those Sowers Are for an Embessier to the Flo
Fragmentary lines suggest a historical or literary note about crime and deceit. The text references sowers, embessiers, a murderer, and a life of crime, implying a reflective or accusatory tone about wrongdoing and expectation versus reality. No clear events, names, or dates are present.
Not Difficult If Wish Could Do Something Startling
Fragmentary text shows a dialogue fragment with names Gladys and Gumeh amid a gloomy tone. The readable portion hints at a dramatic or noir mood but lacks clear events or outcomes. Unable to determine a coherent public-news item from the passage.
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Gumeh
Gladys
No-License League Battles Darby County Dry Drive at Buttonwood
Delaware County faces the fiercest anti license push yet as thousands of voters and women sign remonstrances against 60 dealers and the Buttonwood Hotel in Darby Borough. The No License League backs remonstrances with lawyers detectives and witnesses while liquor interests fight back with counter counsel. York and Chester County figures are named in the broader drive to curb drinking.
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Delaware County
Antiel
Nd Libees League
Darby
Buttonwood
Andrew McClure
Hquor
Simiar
Chester County
Alexander B. Geary
Chester
John R. Hannem, Sr
Josiah Smith
Liquor Dealers’ Association
Venice Echoes and Pigeons Amid Canal Daydreams
The writer revels in Venice as a jewel city rising from water and light. He contrasts its natural beauty with art and museums, noting how pigeons flock to corn fed in Piazza San Marco. The scene shifts from gondolas to a neighboring piazza while describing daily pleasures and urban myths.
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Highlands
Scotland
Venice
Robbery attempt near Reamnetown injures Esther Keller
Miss Esther Keller was assaulted in the road near Reamnetown by a highwayman who grabbed her arm and covered her mouth. A needle mark was found on her arm when she reached Dr. J. W. Smith's office. She provided a full description of the attacker.
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Lancaster
Esther Keller
Reamnetown
J. W. Smith
Misa Keller
Yorks New Park & Fawn Grove Hives Six Mile Schedule
The smallest railroad in Pennsylvania the New Park and Fawn Grove keeps to its six mile schedule without missing a minute.
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York
Pennsylvania
New Park & Fawn Grove
Feeble-minded suspect connected to city union case
A fragment reports a judge claiming that petty theft stemmed from pressure on the brain after a club blow. The case involves a Feeble-Minded designation at City, with references to Boo Geeines and Wier and a transfer to the union.
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Ton
Judge Solly
Union
City
Geeines
Must Cut Kissing Play in Pottstown
Aspiring thespians among boys and girls in Pottstown must study a new class play after concerns over content. Students will review and rehearse within the school program to address guidelines.
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Pottstown
Diamond Clings to Sole. wi Giamond ring lost.
Mrs. Gamuel Crom of Spring Mount reports a diamond ring slipped from its setting and remained missing, urging the finder to return it to her home.
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Giamond Ring
Gamuel Crom
Spring Mount
Mail parcel aims at York County smoker’s stack
A corrugated sheet iron smokestack parcel sent by mail intended for Charles Baer of Stoverstown in York County. The item was bent and misdirected before delivery.
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York
York County
Charles Baer
Stoverstown
Tramp Poet Harry Kemp Rescued in London Club Appearance
The tramp poet Harry Kemp was saved from exile and brought to London wearing decent clothes and fed by a fellow countryman at Hampstead. The London Chronicle calls him well kept and in his right mind as he appears at a famous women’s club with substantial state funds supporting him.
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Harry Kemp
England
Hampstead
Durance
London
The
London Chronicle
Wolf terror in Escambia County kills 2000 sheep
An immense wolf based in Escambia County Alabama has killed over 2,000 sheep in three years, according to hunting parties that pursued it and packs of dogs that tracked the trail.
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Escambia ‘County
Alabama
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