The Good Old Days of 1801
G L Langdon reflects on life around New Year 1801 noting slow communications, manual work, and daily routines. He contrasts candlelit rooms, horse-drawn transport, and rural customs with emerging technologies like the telegraph, steam power, and early printing, while surveying early U S political lines and westward expansion.
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New York
Philadelphia
Boston
France
Commodore Truston
Kentucky
Mississippi Valley
Gulf States
Rockies
New
New Year Reverie Aboard the Nineteenth Century Ends
A humorous monologue on the closing of 19th century times and the dawn of the 20th. The speaker muses on aging, technology, and future wonders as the clock strikes twelve signaling the Twentieth Century's arrival.
New Year Customs of Spanish Mexicans in California
The article describes how Spanish Mexicans in California and the southwest celebrate New Year with a donor dinner, gift exchanges, and a daily schedule of games. It details the lottery of love, the grand dance, casqueronis festivities, and hair let downs during the peak revels, followed by a midnight supper and nightlong dancing.
Questions for the century ahead from cultural musings
A catalog of speculative questions on gender, politics, society, and technology aimed at the 20th century. The piece playfully probes future roles for women and men, fashion, work, transportation, law, and daily life, ending with a ask for what will be said and done a hundred years hence.
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Boston
North Pole
Mrs. Grundy
North America
Sayers
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G. Luther Langdon
Massachusetts
Maine
California
Washington
Ohio
Indiana
Michigan Andlinois
Minnesota
Northwest Territory
Chicago
Fort Dearborn
Telford
Jefferson
Burr
Hamilton
Maryland
Baltimore
Parkersburg
W. Va
Atlantic
United States of America
Uncle Ezra
Hector
Agdérs
Divta Jbushs
Eldven
Aires
Mister Twentieth
Yankee Dons
J. M. Scanland
Southwest
Fiirty
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