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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 07, 1943
Page
8
Venezuelan authorities allow love letters to be mailed at half price when placed in bright red envelopes. The regulation highlights a quirky postal policy aimed at promoting romance across the country.
A New Year’s Eve idea invites guests to make their own lunches using a Sandwich Bar. Include breads, meats like ham and tongue, cheeses, spreads, pickles, relishes, and condiments. Offer to toast sandwiches and set a large bread board for center action. A shrimp a la 1943 recipe adds a playful surprise.
Bonnie Scotland keeps two quaint rites for New Year. First Footing brings luck if a tall dark visitor enters a home after midnight with a small offering. Hogmanay involves children asking for treats with chants, then recipients gift them cakes and buns.
New Year customs in coastal Scottish towns feature a burning barrel ritual dating to early sun worship. A half barrel filled with tar and faggots is set on a pole and carried through the village. The burning mass spills, sparking a scramble for fortune in the coming year before the blaze ends at a hilltop stone altar.
A century ago in parts of England a New Year morning ceremony dipped a Bible for divination before breakfast. The book was opened at random with a finger on a random chapter, whose contents were interpreted as foretelling the seeker’s fortune for the year ahead.
Poem excerpt from Alfred Tennyson's In Memoriam urges ringing out the old year and ring in the new with calls to shed false pride, feud, and disease while welcoming truth, peace, and noble virtues as the Christ is to be. The lines reflect a transition from dying to hopeful renewal.
Millions across the United States will make New Year vows to quit smoking drink less and curb temper while others pledge to work hard and be generous. Skepticism greets reform efforts but the practice merits encouragement as a fresh start.
In remote Hebrides Orkney and Shetland New Year is still celebrated on January 12 or 13 rather than January 1. Archaeologists view this as a survival of Ju lius Caesar era calendars. Some districts observe January 11 and 12, but the trend leans toward standardization recognizing only the first of the month.
Fragmentary OCR text presents a mangled headline about a mob related event and a chief pager role. Names and places are unreadable, with no verifiable date or location. The readable bits offer little concrete detail to form a coherent summary.
A religious lesson discusses John 1 14 and the Word made flesh as a guide for the new year. It urges home and church study, especially in Sunday school, highlighting belief in Jesus as Christ and God’s gift of eternal life, with a call to witness to others.
Barbara Bell patterns No 1703 5 and No 1090 1 offer gowns and jackets in multiple sizes with detailed yardage for silk and ribbon. The Enchanting Set features a fragile gown with lace and ribbon waist while the Soft Suit Frock emphasizes a waist tying jacket and flattering dickey.
In China some actors who impersonate women and actresses who impersonate men are highly skilled and regularly cast to perform opposite each other in dramas. When the roles swap so the actor plays the heroine and the actress the hero, the play tends to succeed.
The band saw entered American lumber mills when Henry Disston showcased a perfected model in operation at the Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition of 1876, creating a notable sensation in the industry.
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