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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jan 01, 1896
Page
3
A playful exchange between the New Year and Earth depicts children turning over leaves to honor the season. The verse envisions the world’s paper as leaves being turned, celebrating renewal and the arrival of a fresh year.
In a late year house scene Linda Marmont reveals to her father she plans to enter the deaconess novitiate while a gala dinner unfolds with wary relatives. A fateful confrontation at Mr Leland’s reveals Linda’s past and Lester’s hopeful reconciliation.
The text argues New Year’s customs arise from natural selection among immigrant traditions. It notes the Knickerbocker practice of visiting ladies and serving refreshments spread westward and southward, becoming national, then waxing and waning with cycles of adoption and revival. It highlights a law of action and reaction shaping social change.
A reflective piece on New Year’s joy, memory and hope, contrasting old England gift giving with modern restraint, notes on kissing under mistletoe, New York social duties, Parisian avoidance of calls, and China temple prayers. It cites January 1 as a booster for optimism and resolve, ending with Juils Henri Browne.
The Siamese Choola Sakarat marks the religious New Year with ominous belief in spirits. Brahmin forecasters sound full moon warnings as villagers seal doors with sacred thread, offer pig head and arrack, and endure a citywide cannonade from sunset to dawn to ward off demons.
In Scotland a New Year custom has people consult the Bible to glimpse the coming year. The Bible is opened at random on a table and the forefinger lands on a passage believed to forecast the fortunes for the year ahead.
The Romans offered sacrifices to Janus and guarded their conduct for the first days to influence luck in the coming year. The Saxons welcomed the new year with special rites and maistletoe cut in peculiar forms served as favored gifts.
The piece notes New Year customs with spiced ale and wassail bowls, including poor folk begging for ale while singing Wassail all over the town. It also mentions regional ways to end the old year such as sweeps with blackened faces, bonfires, and muffled or clear bells after midnight.
Maud Booth offers a reflective New Year message urging acts of thoughtfulness and sympathy. She contrasts empty greetings with a year spent in selfless deeds benefiting others, so happiness returns to the giver.
A reflective piece on how each new year adds one more unit to life and reveals progress or stagnation. It argues that change comes from personal advancement, not just the passage of time, and warns that contentment yields only the old year repeated.
A Christian Work reflection hopes the new year signals growth of noble ideas that free and improve people. It praises the Holy Child of nativity and urges imitation and obedience to His spirit to redeem time and bring blessedness to humanity.
A Philadelphia Times verse likens the new year to a newborn child, describing waking hour, gale and rain, sun dimmed, and branches in frail white, with imagery of growth and awakening as the year matures toward spring. The piece uses rich metaphor to set the season’s tone.
The article surveys customs from around the world and across history linking the twelve days after Christmas to the weather and fortunes for the coming year. It cites Sanscrit proverbs, English and Welsh lore, German and French practices, and notes about New Year divinations, lucky and unlucky signs, and regional superstitions.
A poetic line extols 365 gifts as better than playthings or money, urging kindness and sunshine. The verse frames presents as mutual treasures between giver and recipient, attributed to Youth's Companion.
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