New Year Festivities Across Europe and Scotland
A survey of how diverse regions mark New Year from Berlin and Vienna to Oxford and Dresden. It notes Berlin's late-night revelry and cap traditions, Vienna's court ceremony, Oxford's thrifty needle rite, Dresden's card games with the king, and Hogmanay in Scotland along with assorted customs, foods, and gifts echoing centuries of celebration.
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Berlin
Polly
Empire
England
Germany
France
North
Capital
Laatgarten
Charlottanburg
Kurtorstendamma
Paris
Vienna
Hofburg
Gesaler
Queen's College, Oxford
Bureau
Shmuel
Magrath
America
Alguille
Hylesfeld
Philippe
Dresden
Burghead
Moray Firth
Thia
Scotland
Indian Tribal Marriages Recognized and Dissolutions Valid
Buck v. Branson holds that a marriage contracted under an Indian tribe customs with tribal governance in place and no federal statute invalidating those customs will be recognized as a regular and valid marriage for all purposes. It also extends to dissolutions under tribal customs. Tribal marriages are not treated as common law but as legal marriages per recognized tribal customs.
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Far North
Robert Burns
Scotland
Henry Bickersteth
Per Biona
Engleh
New York
Mie Dletos
Seema Skelter
England
Buck
Branson
Okie
Congrac A
Canada
Manitoba
Saskatchewan
Alberta
Ottawa
C.J. Broughton
W. Adams Street
Chicago
Ill
Macianes
Jelferson
Deireit
Mich
Johnny, Namer of Graces in Sample Exchange
A minister asks a boy to name the three graces. The boy replies with Sara and quickly names breakfast, dinner and supper as the three graces in a light exchange reflecting playful wordplay.
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Johnny
Sara
Scotchman’s fate after a voyage home from Ruenia
A Scottish traveler would have faced German detention unless his name bore British after his forename. The ship’s naval officer scrubbed English from the record, while British remained. A divine prophesy from two centuries ago notes Scots as men of sense, a sentiment Bun Baltimers might echo today.
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Danny Scot
Ruenia
Fficer
Lift Cracow Siege New Forces Press Against Cracow
German efforts to pierce Russian lines shift as Cracow siege ends. Grand Duke Nicholas withdraws, while troops move from north and east toward the Galician stronghold. Battles develop near Jacow and Miechow with Germans pushing along the Nida and toward Kleboe. Russian authorities estimate German strength at eight to ten army corps. East Prussia reports German retreat from Mehrenburg to Soldau as footnotes.
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London
Cracow
Czaer
Nicholas
Petrograd
Poland
Jacow
Sochaczew
Skierniewica
Warsaw
Miechow
Andrejew
Nida
Viatula
Kleboe
A. Petrograd
East Prussia
Mehrenburg
Soldau
Bzura
Rawka
Bolimow
Berlin
Portugal to Join Allies in War Effort Declared
Lisbon reports the chamber of deputies adopted a motion stating Portugal is preparing for intervention in the war in Europe with British aid. The vote backs the new cabinet affirming its constitutional basis and patriotic aims. It notes steps to strengthen colonial defense and European intervention.
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Lisbon
Portugal
Europa
Great Britain
Chamber of Deputies
Ita
Europe
House Rules Chief Delays Suffrage Vote to January 10
Weekington December 25 Chairman Henry of the house rules committee said he would not call up the Mondell woman suffrage resolution before January 10. Opponents will argue that both suffrage and prohibition are state matters, as with prohibition’s defeat.
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Weekington
Henry
House Rules Committee
Gutierrez QUITS Mexican Presidency Reported in San Antonio
San Antonio reports on December 25 that Provisional President Gutierrez has quit the presidency of Mexico City due to clashes with Gen Felipe Angeles and Zapata followers. Local constitutionalist consul T R Beltran conveyed the report.
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San Antonio
Tex
Gutierrez
Mexico City
Felipe Angeles
Zapata
T. R. Beltran
France votes big war fund in six months
Paris reports the chamber of deputies voted unanimously for an appropriation of 8.5 billion francs about 1.7 billion dollars to cover six months including war costs. Constantinople says Turkish troops crossed the Egyptian frontier in strength and Russian forces attacked east of Kosnrike. Indian Mohammedans in the British army deserts toward Turkey. deputations from India have reached Constantinople.
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Paris
Chamber of Deputies
Berlin
London
Constantinople
Kosnrike
Beypt
Costly Method of Revenge
Andrew Carnegie, in a recent interview on peace, told eight New York reporters that a lad of twenty killed a man and two women in Sarajevo triggering Europe’s warfare. He notes England spends $35,000 a minute on gunpowder while contrasting a banquet cloakroom anecdote about a man seeking his own collapsible opera hat.
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Andrew Carnegie
New York
Sarajeva
England
Gidney Webb
Cuticura Ad and a Pistol Story in Boston Suburbs
An advertisem ent touts Cuticura products for hair loss and scalp care with a free 32 page Skin Book offer from Boston. Separately a panicky passerby tale follows Al Rogers who stops to help a man in distress who reveals he has a loaded revolver.
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Cutleura
Dept. X
Boston
al Rogers
Castoria Endures as Trusted Children Remedy
Parents are urged to rely on Fletcher's Castoria for infants and children, a trusted product for over 80 years. The ad emphasizes safety and guarantees the signature of NEA on the bottle, stressing durable family use and child care.
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Fletcher
War Styles and Dramatic Lines in 1900s Gossip
The excerpt pairs fashion talk with playful banter from old magazines. It mentions fall gowns possibly paired with cartridge belts, and features assertive heroine lines about steaming open a sealed doom. It also hints at character observations from The View and Your Doom is Sealed phrases.
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Hal
War era unit mustering tests clerk math professor
A Prussian landwehr company is being formed with tasks like forms, equipment, rifles, and reports. The captain asks for a neat writer to balance accounts and the first sergeant assigns Corporal Kammermeyer, a mathematics professor, to duties as company clerk. A wry aside notes monthly accounts.
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Coldiar
Arma
Heras
Kammermeyer
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Jatery
Berkeley
Ebxcody
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Patala
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Pecan Eniek
de He
W. Ni
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Tere
Todd
Bering
Warners
Warner
Warner’s Safe Remedies Co
Rochester
N. Y
Ageal
Aide I. Wiesvoung
Florida
Ata
Tellebie
Aoauannia
Mample
Sowa
Antes
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