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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1909
Page
2
Americans are busy and many skip holidays yet still mark New Year with friend calls and family gatherings. Church watch meetings remain common across the country to usher in the new year, though the scene here is less picturesque than in other lands.
Scots rehearse old customs before New Year with masked carols and first footing. In Edinburgh crowds watch Hunter Square clock as Old Year exits and New Year enters. Children collect cakes and beer, elders toast gude New Year, while homes honor juniper rites to ward off witchcraft and ill luck.
A fragment describes a New Year rite with a father and children, mentions shenya piles and a ritual question about Lim, notes the Russian New Year is 12 days later, and outlines celebratory visits and good wishes in the morning festivities.
The text describes a household ritual at midnight where every family member salutes each other with four pleasantries, starting with the head of the house, as they bid each other a Happy New Year. It mentions a servant and a man in a suit, though details are fragmentary.
Norwegians and Swedes host lavish banquets in Stockholm while Copenhagen fires a New Year volley. Danes celebrate with midnight cannon, Cape Town Dutch settlers mark a full week of revelry with picnics and dances, ending in orderly return to business.
Observers note the Chinese New Year in a major city with month long festivities in the homeland style. Offerings include rice vegetables tea oranges and imitation paper money burned with incense and candles. Images of deities and ancestors are carried in solemn processions amid fireworks and public displays.
Old accounts say the New Year is celebrated with a three day visit to relatives and friends. People wear light blue cotton, attend tea gardens, watch a grand parade with bands and wax figures, and enjoy games and fireworks. Gifts include cooked rice and fruits while peas ward off evil spirits. On day four decorations shift to symbolize spring and renewal.
A reflective piece extols beauty’s role in happiness and human life. It describes how color, scenery, and nature elevate spirits and enrich existence, arguing beauty adds usefulness and joy to daily living.
A Chicago suburb plans a $2 million Village of Hope on an 18 mile site for Cook County poor. Old couples will share cottages, keep busy with farm and shop work, and enjoy porches, a chapel, and recreation rooms. Officials say the village will repay costs through worker output and improve lives.
A column laments divorce’s impact on children, recalling Vanderbilt and Astor families. It contrasts the hurt of missing a parent with a child’s pain from a broken arm, and questions what replaces a real parent. It also notes a market for musical instruments and oddly cites animal temperatures.
An essay argues marriage is a partnership like a business, urging equality, trust, and limited nagging. It compares spouses to partners who share freedom, money matters, and respect personal liberty, warning against control and constant criticism. New York City reports a sugar consumption of 980,000,000 pounds in the last year.
A young woman narrates a humorous tale of a rain soaked evening out with a friend that ends in taxi mix ups and a police station misadventure. She insists that Wednesday the 324th of September is unlucky after a string of comic mishaps including a misrouted taxi, a collision with paving material, and a chance encounter with an electric cab driver who may have attended the same costly reception.
Advertising ties Japan by adopting American ideas, as merchants in Tokyo and other cities supply temples with tree towels for printing their ads. Priests previously hung towels at the entrance, and temples now reserve printing privileges, linking commerce with religious spaces.
Editorial style piece urges local business to boost the town by fronting self promotion. Emphasizes advertising and storefront appeal as a means to attract customers and elevate the community image, urging business owners to participate and improve their business fronts.
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