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New Year's Eve Traditions Across 19th Century Cities
The article recalls how New Year’s Eve and Day were celebrated in New York Philadelphia and other cities in the late 1800s and early 1900s. It notes open houses elaborate dress polite calls and gifts then shifts to the decline of calling and rise of drinking and revelry leading to stricter controls and a push toward calmer year-start celebrations.
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Metias
Raperionee
Peter
Washington
Berty
Gelsien Semrat
Mreed Corret
Hentieg Dros
Monkete
Ong Terghers
Aphance & & Martherer
Wach Cartel
Newkman
New York
Sord Hones
Indies
West
Papa
Knights of Ob
Lnte
Prince Albert
Walter
Oyeteletane
Helin
Philadelphia
Independence Hall
Chestnut Street
Muammer
Leest
Trinity Chureti
Clerem
Trinity
Dianes
Timax