A New Year's Eve Bet Tests a Man's Will to Quit Alcohol
In a Brentwood drawing room, Robert Mumford bets his wife Mabel Brentwood he can give up drinking for thirty days. He endures withdrawal as New Year revels clash with his resolve, aided by love and manipulation, until a final temptation at ten o'clock leads to a dramatic near relapse and a question of true reform.
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Slim McDade Drives Wild Paper Route Tale
A humorous verse recounts Slim McDade racing a new auto used for delivering newspapers. The vehicle careens through town injuring a series of animals and bystanders before colliding with a train crossing. Slim survives, reflecting that the old method rests the feet, and calls readers to remember him.
First New Year’s Day on American soil observed on Haiti Island
The article recounts Columbus era scenes and claims the earliest New Year celebration by white men on American soil occurred on Haiti island in 1492, with Columbus as master of ceremonies. It notes his voyage negotiations with Ferdinand and Isabella, the voyage’s delay, and the first feast among indigenous peoples and Spaniards.
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Christopher Coluibus
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Guarico
Spain
Indiana
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Tacitas
Weirs
Atlantis
The Weeping Toad Legend of Tyrol Churches
In Tyrolean churches the evening before a new year, sacred buildings stay shut while locals recall a huge toad crawling before the altar and praying, seen as the reincarnation of Christians who failed pilgrimages. The tale says the toad roams seeking shrines that no longer exist, with no one disturbing it.
Russia's New Year Observed Amid Religious Service
In Russia the new year begins with a lengthy Re New Year service followed by heavy drinking and frequent prostrations before Icons. These religious observances are said to secure the household and have featured prominently in the war in the far east.
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Russia
Far East
Scandinavia's Odd New Year Custom Tasting Horns and Tankards
Scandinavia marks New Year with a drink from silver or wooden tankards or horns of the now extinct urex. The custom, tied to Norse antiquity, suggests horns were once used by mythic figures Thor and Odin.
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