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Newspaper
Leavenworth Echo
Location
Leavenworth, Washington, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1916
Page
4
Nellie F. Morris recounts a home pantomime for New Year night where a damp sheet curtain hides a shadow play. Halloween, the Old Witch, and the Old Year enchant a girl with gifts, culminating in a New Year greeting and farewell.
A reflective verse contrasts the old year with the new, depicting the Old Year’s weariness and greed giving way to the New Year’s generosity and calm. It frames each night as a passage to dawn, urging confession, resolve, and renewed hope with every sunrise.
The famed Liberty Bell no longer tolls for New Year celebrations at Independence Hall in Philadelphia. Since 1880 custodians have barred its use after a 1776 dawn of independence linked history and a 1835 funeral toll, leaving another bell to greet each new year.
The piece argues resolutions should extend beyond January 1 and urges making each day a chance to speak kindly, perform good deeds, and weed out personal faults. It emphasizes consistent self improvement and removing habits that offend others or oneself.
At the Chinese New Year houses and streets fill with flowers people buy provisions new clothes and gifts. A key custom is settling debts before the old year ends. A Chinaman who starts the year in debt feels disgraced.
A poem by Louise Chandler Moulton depicts a bright New Year morning. Birds sing and children play in snow as friends exchange cheerful wishes, capturing a festive urban mood.
Frank Andrews asks Lena Wadsworth to marry if he remains true for a year. After a wild New Year party he wakes with a gold heart locket and no memory of Gwen. Lena reveals the heart was a prank, Gwen nonexistent, and Frank must face the aftermath. They settle later with a six month trial leading to marriage.
British military aeronautics outlay this year tops 250 million dollars as global aviator numbers run from two to ten thousand per country. Henry Woodhouse notes increasing aircraft capacity and motor endurance enabling commercial planes, while US orders and contracts total about 50 million. The United States and Europe host thousands of aviators and balloons, with limited US observation balloons ordered.
Argentina's envoy Naon and a Washington Peace Society representative discussed a cross country high school correspondence scheme. He cited sending Proctor Academy letters from Andover to a Buenos Aires school and awaiting a reply translated for Andover, signaling the plan's progress.
Hans Jurgensen fifty of Brooklyn a watchman on pier 88 Atlantic docks died in Long Island College Hospital from hydrophobia contracted from a bite by his pet cat. Initially the bite caused minor trouble but swelling developed days before his death. Dr William M Ennis of Brooklyn diagnosed hydrophobia and his removal to hospital confirmed by department of health physicians.
A compact creed urging a lifter not a leaner mindset. It calls for encouragement, sharing sorrow, starting songs, seeking sunshine, and living honestly. It emphasizes faith, hope, kindness, forgiveness, charity, and due regard for others and animals.
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