This Date In History Highlights Early New England Sabbath Life
The column notes Puritan clergy in New England fasting and keeping the Sabbath in Boston, with a birth on December 4, 1585 and a sequence of historical dates. It lists Sir Richard Arkwright born in Preston and died August 3, 1792, plus other entries such as Washington leaving command in 1789 and the 1845 anti corn law meeting in Manchester.
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New England
Gronin
Yroning
Boston
Richard Arkwright
Preson
Eng
Washington
Charles Michel Vespec
Paris
Hungary
Manchester
England
Turkey
Hay
Hague
Loneliness Club Proves Popular in New York
A new social group, the Registered Acquaintance Dance Club, launches weekly dances to combat loneliness in New York. Membership requires a detailed personal questionnaire and references, with admission tied to trust and propriety. Dances cost a dollar per person. the club operates self funded with professional, student, and business members.
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Frederic J. Haskin
New York
R. A. D. Club
New Yorker
Smith
Jones
Hery
Apy
Rise of Get A cquainted Clubs Postwar Social Reform
The piece notes wartime social shifts and the emergence of Get-Acquainted and R A D clubs. It highlights Mrs Russell L Booker in Akron hosting large at-homes for lonely locals with informal, tag assisted mingling and shared entertainments.Detroit couples Mr and Mrs Robert Downie host jazz filled church gatherings and weekly dances.
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Russell L. Booker
Mr. Booker
Detroit
Robert Downie
Burmese Marriage Rite Centers on Shared Bowl Eating
The Burmese wedding custom includes a ceremony but the binding element is the couple sharing a meal from the same bowl in front of witnesses. This act, rather than religious rituals, signifies the union and mutual responsibility in the marriage.
Chinese sleep discipline with burning joss-stick thumb method
The practice involves tying a long joss-stick to a thumb, lighting it, and lying down. When the stick burns down to the flesh, the pain wakes the sleeper, prompting them to rise quickly.
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Middle West
Akron
Scott
Chase
Chase Amman
Chase-Amman Drug Company
Rexall
Monroe
King
Mary Garden
Crane’s
Wiley’s
Tiffin
The
New South Drug Store
Grand Stre
Monroe Furniture Co., Ltd
North Second Street
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