New Year's Day Open Houses Through U S Presidents
Washington preserves a longer New Year open house tradition than other cities, tracing from early levies to White House receptions. The piece chronicles how presidents from Washington to Hoover hosted or abandoned the custom, noting Dolly Madison, Jefferson’s milk cheese gift, Tyler’s crowds, Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation signature moment, and later shifts under Grant Wilson Harding and beyond.
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United States
Washington
White House
Executive Mansion
Hoover
George
Martha Washington
Thomas Jefferson
Diplomatic Corps
Jefferson
John Leland
Virginia
Cheshire
Mass
Old Dominion
John Brown
Leland
Adams
Jackson
Mob
Martin van Buren
van Buren
Abraham Lincoln
William H. Seward
Lincoln
Buchanan
Ulysses
S. Grant
Belknap
Theodore Roosevelt
Wilson
Harding
Coolidge
Unice
Pleasure Giving and the Power of Talk in 1937
The piece extols talking as a humane tool to spread happiness and support. It urges praise and comforting words, warns against gossip and slander, and highlights talking to children to inspire virtue. It frames kind discourse as free, broad, and beneficial for all in 1937.
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Bell Syndicate
WNU
Simple Square Rug Pattern for Easy Crafting
A quick guide to making a colorful smart rug from repeated square motifs. Includes use of rug wool or candlewicking, pattern 5699 with instructions charts and materials. Send 15 cents to The Sewing Circle Household Arts Dept. in New York for pattern.
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Germantown
Sewing Circle Household Arts Dept
Fourteenth Street
New York
N. Y
Generosity as Duty According to Goldsmith
A quoted reflection by Goldsmith declares generosity a duty as indispensable as law. Reason dictates it as the sovereign rule for a rational being.
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Goldsmith
Stomach Acid Linked to Poor Sleep and Fatigue
The text warns that lack of exercise and bad eating raise stomach acid, advising neutralizing stomach acids to sleep well and wake refreshed.
Quotations from Noted Figures on Civility and War
A compact collection of aphorisms from Franklin D. Roosevelt H L Mencken Sir Ernest Benn Guglielmo Marconi Daniel Frohman Benito Mussolini. The quotes address keeping one’s word politeness freedom and the consequences of war across nations.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
H. L. Mencken
Ernest J. P. Benn
Guglielmo Marconi
Stomaach
Daniel Frohman
Germany
Europe
Benito Mussolini
Creomulsion Ad Warns Coughs Signal Danger
An advertisement urges readers that a persistent three days' cough signals trouble and promotes Creomulsion as a guaranteed remedy that soothes inflamed membranes and loosens phlegm with money-back assurance if not satisfied from the first use.
Poultry and Eggs Shipped to Nystrand Poultry CQ
Ship your poultry and eggs to Nystrand Poultry CQ in Butte Montana for top prices and prompt return, according to a local business solicitation.
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Nystrand Poultry CQ
Butte, Mont
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Elmo Scott Watson
Federal City
Massachusetts
America
James Madison
Dolly Madison
Monroes
John Quincy Adams
New
Executive
John Tyler
Fletcher
Webster
Tyler
James Buchanan
Jin
Dollars & Health
Milnesia For Health
Magnesia
Capitol Advertising
New York Ave
N. W
Wash
D, C
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