New Year Customs From Around the World
The piece surveys diverse New Year traditions across cultures from ancient to modern times. It notes how cycles of the seasons shaped calendars, various chosen days for celebration, and rituals to ward off misfortune with examples in France Britain Finland Bohemia Ukraine Ireland the United States and more. It also mentions folk practices like shooting the old year out, bell ringing, first footing, and kissing days.
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France
British Isles
Finland
Satan
Bohemia
United States
North Carolina
Pennsylvania
Isle of Man
Ireland
Ukraine
Czechoslovakia
America
Minnesota
Agronomy Days Count Down set for Monroe County
Monroe County farmers will attend the Agronomy Days Count Down January 4 and 11 at the E and R Parish Hall in Waterloo. The programs run 9 45 a m to 3 15 p m with topics on corn growth planting dates and rates soil fertility and weed disease control and later sessions cover soybeans small grains and forages. A five session poultry workshop follows January 13 at the Waterloo Farm Bureau Hall with costs of production nutrition flock management disease control egg quality and merchandising. Sponsored by the University of Illinois Cooperative Extension Service and Monroe County Extension Service.
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E. & R. Parish Hall
Waterloo
Arlin Obst
University of Illinois and Industry
Extension Service
Waterloo Farm Bureau Hall
Obst
University of Illinois Cooperative Extension Service
Monroe County Extension Service
The Law Serves You: Bank Forgery and Customer Duty in Illinois
An eight dollar check was altered to eighty and cashed. a forged hundred dollar check was paid. Illinois law limits bank liability for fraud and assigns risk to the depositor if negligence or late notice exists. Customers must promptly inspect statements to preserve rights and consult an attorney for precise guidance.
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John
Illinois
Stevens
Carol
Scintillation camera aids rapid organ imaging at Chicago
A new scintillation camera from the University of Chicago speeds internal organ imaging after radioactive dosing, cutting exam time by 90 percent and enabling multiple views. Clean up in chicken coops may be solved by a water drinking strain bred by Pennsylvania State University. Wrestlers face a heightened risk of cold sores from close contact, with rapid spread and flu like symptoms. Maine uniquely borders only one state New Hampshire is isolated Tennessee and Missouri touch eight states. A Rotovator rotary filler can package up to 72 000 containers per hour at 1 200 per minute across 36 stations. Fleas decline as modern hygiene reduces flea circuses per West Germany’s Peter Mathes.
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University of Chicago
Pennsylvania State University
U.S
American Medical Association
Maine
New Hampshire
Union
Tennessee
Missouri
Votator
Louisville
Peter Mathes
West Germany
Crossword Puzzle Last Week’s Answer Across
The puzzle lists clues across spelling Dutch Meuse name to English terms. Entries include resort Hope Crews firma breeze exchange grape bumping marking postponed Dodecanese island man’s nickname boys in blue daub wary made on aloom Sanskrit school harem room talebearers second hand bargains betel propels Koran chapter hairnet lined with pelt compass point colorer wings lam prey sabers new sub ter fuge defeat foot digits common kite Europe hardened hat feline music sounds note remain English.
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Meuse River
Aloom
Teen readers advised to value parents guidance
The column counsels a teen to appreciate parents concern about letters dating and curfews. It notes many teens have looser rules and urges acting responsibly, avoiding secret letters, and addressing issues openly with parents as they near adulthood.
Christmas and New Year safety message for 1966
The piece urges unity and caution during the festive season. It warns drivers to stay alert for pedestrians, avoid driving after drinking, and practice courtesy on the roads. It closes with wishes for a Merry Christmas and safer driving through the New Year.
Endangered Wildlife Plan Aims to Save U S Species
Washington report outlines a new Interior Department program to protect birds and mammals. The Patuxent Wildlife Research Center in Maryland will host headquarters and field biologists will study and propagate endangered species. Six more biologists will join sites in California South Dakota and the Southeast as efforts target ivory billed woodpecker and other species.
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America
Department of Interior
Johnson
Patuxent Wildlife Research Center
Laurel
Maryland
Patuxent
Los Padres National Forest
California
South Dakota
Interior
House of Representatives
Department
Senate
Department of the Interior
Miss Bless-You Transforms Retirement Into Gift Day Devotion
Mrs. W. R. Blessing, once ailing widow aged 69, moved into a retirement home with $18,000 left from her husband and house sale. She began giving $100 monthly to 51 residents, starting Gift Day on the 12th, and planned gifts totaling about $6,000 over five years. She organized a department store clerk visit for gift ideas and started distributing gifts from her bed, wheelchair, and in hallways, with 51 residents praying for her health.
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Miss Bless-You
W. R. Blessing
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