History of the New Year around the World and Timekeeping
A survey of how diverse cultures marked the new year from ancient Rome and Greece to Egypt Chaldea Persia and Phoenicia to modern calendars in 1901. It notes Romes shift to January 1 under Caesar and various national reforms from March 25 to Sept 22 including the French revolutionary calendar and Jewish Rosh Hashana.
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Cesar
France
Charles IX
England
Europe
East Indies
Rome
A Fatal Hoont
A playful verse recounts a Thanksgiving pursuit of a turkey turning fatal on New Year’s morning as the gobbler’s days end. The speaker notes Christmas night and New Year’s dawn with a humorous local flavor.
Governor Shaw Accepts Roosevelt Offer for Treasury Post
Governor Shaw accepted what President Roosevelt intended as a final offer for the treasury secretary post via Senator Allison. Roosevelt hopes cordial relations and invites Shaw to Washington for a conference, with Shaw leaving New Year’s Day for about ten days to prepare his biennial message to the legislature.
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Allison
Des Moines
Faw
Roose-velt
Roosevelt
Washington
Apartment Fire Ravages Six-Story Chicago Building
A Christmas tree with inflammable decorations and candles caused a blaze that destroyed the Alexander apartment building on Cottage Grove avenue. Loss exceeds $100,000. Twenty families narrowly escaped as flames blocked the sole stairway and firemen battled the inferno with residents clinging to windows and ladders. Several tenants were burned during rescue.
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Chicago
Alexander
Cottage Grove Avenue
Train wreck after landslide near Lynchburg kills four
A Chesapeake and Ohio line wreck near Reusen Station south of Lynchburg Virginia follows a heavy rain driven landslide. Four trainmen including Conductor Whitaker Engineer Fisher and Baggagemaster Thompson were killed. several passengers injured but not seriously. Other items mention Schley case closed and new heating method for cars in Christiania and Stockholm.
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Lynchburg
Chesapeake and Ohio
Reusen Station
A. Whittaker
George Fisher
Thompson
Xpress
Shannon
Christiania
Stockholm
Wepics and Dramas of Early American Literature
A survey of post revolutionary era American epic claims and dramatic beginnings. Timothy Dwight and Joel Barlow are highlighted for their ambitious but uneven epics and visions. The piece chronicles early American theater, its constraints, and the rise of domestic drama amid Puritan influence and evolving national culture.
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John Trumbull
McFingal
Sallres
England
America
Old England
Timothy Dwight
Yale College
Canaan
Homer
Milton
Hanniel
Irad
Selima
Elam
Mina
Herzon
Jabin
Zimri
Monmouth
Yorktown
Caleb
Joshua
Dwight
Pope
Satan
Joel Barlow
Columbus
Aineld
Columbiad
Massachusetts
Watts
London
Paris
France
Barlow
Washington
Hesper
Mexico
Peru
Raleigh
Stern Putnam
Wayne
Bland
Moyland
Sheldon
Knox
Virginia
Williamsburg
Farquhar
Annapolis
New York
Philadelphia
Rhode Island
Newport
New England
Thomas Godfrey
Plymouth
Tyler
Dunlap
Payne
Brutus
Therese
Danby
Wales
Theft Of $50 000 In Jewelry From Madison Avenue Home
New York December 30 jewelry worth fifty thousand dollars was stolen from Mr and Mrs Paul G Thebaud by a newly hired valet who disappeared after taking a Howard Willets rig to White Plains The list of stolen items includes a pear shaped diamond worth twenty thousand dollars a 44 grain pearl valued at fifteen thousand dollars and thirty smaller pieces police traced the valet named Kern who fled town and the case is under police scrutiny across major cities.
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New York
Paul G
Madison Avenue
Thebaud
Howard Willets
White Plains
Kern
Funeral for Nellie Cropsey Held in Elizabeth City
Funeral services for Nellie Cropsey were conducted at the Methodist church in Elizabeth City after her body was found in the Pasquotank river. The uncle, Andrew Cropsey, will take the body to Brooklyn for burial, with a local citizens committee acting as pallbearers. A young man named Wilcox, held in connection with the death, faced a restrained public mood and reduced talk of lynching as guards returned home.
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Elizabeth City
N. C
Nellie Cropsey
Pasquotank River
Andrew G. Cropsey
Brooklyn
Citizens’ Committee
Young Wilcox
Wilcox
Baptists Depose Minister Heath Over Illicit Divorce
Rev James A Heath was expelled from Calvary Baptist Church Kansas City after a council found him guilty on three charges for allegedly obtaining a divorce in New York to remarry a Kansas City woman. The congregation unanimously adopted the report dismissing him from the pulpit and withdrawing fellowship.
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Heath
Kansas City
James A. Heath
New York
Calvary Baptist Church
Council of Eight Baptist
Farrow dealer kills two in Shawnee gambling room
Shawnee Oklahoma, December 30 Charles McKnight a faro dealer shot and killed Willard Sims a saloon keeper and a boy named Hepstedter in a gambling room yesterday McKnight and Sims had quarreled Sims went to the gambling resort and threatened to kill McKnight McKnight drew a revolver and killed Hepstedter a bystander then killed Sims.
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Shawnee, O. T
Charles McKnight
Willard Sims
Hepstedter
McKnight
Sims
Rejected Sultor Takes Poison
Robert McElfresh a Swift & Co. clerk died in the city jail from arsenic poisoning. He drank poison in the morning after being jailed in the afternoon. He was in love with a young woman he met recently and is believed to have poisoned himself after she spurned him.
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Sultor
St. Joseph
Robert McElfresh
Chicago
Swift & Co
McElfresh
Water spout pounds Saffe Morocco drowning two hundred
A water spout bursts over Saffe Morocco inundating the town for 12 hours and sweeping residents into the sea. About two hundred people are reported drowned with no Europeans among the dead. Damage is described as enormous.
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Tangier
Morocco
Saffe
Governors Meet at Helena on Northwestern merger talks
Helena Montana December 30. Governors conference discusses merging Northern Pacific Great Northern and Burlington lines with no formal program set. Social plans include a state dinner Tuesday evening for visiting officials.
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Helena
Mon
Northern Pacific
Great Northern
Burlington
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Mos
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KNI
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We “Y Vin de Cinchona Co
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ELY Bros
Warren St
Clifton
Arizona
Dett M. Porrsrr
Mgr
Ariz.Gold M. Co. Messrs
Ex Bros
Proberta
Franz E. Krnpitscire
W. Voaier
Hua
Bedrock, Salmon & Gibbonsville Stage Co
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Salmon City Shoupe
Gibbonaville
Ids
Leesburg
Blackbird
Forney
Yellow Jacket
Silvercreek
Prairie Basin
Challis
Upper
Salmon Ver
Red Rock, Montcare Stage Co
F. W. Vogler
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Gen. Mgr
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Stockmen’s Directory
Philip Lovell
Dillon
Mont
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Cashwore
Fornxston
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