Thrifty New Year Money Catchers Promise Future Joy
A 1927 Western Newspaper Union tip promotes saving by placing coins in small containers like banks at the toy store or a baking powder can. Each time you feel a urge to spend on lunches or foolish purchases, deposit half the amount to improve digestion and dodge regrets next year.
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L. B. Lyons
Western Newspaper Union
New Year resolves urge fresh start for 1928
The piece argues to forget the past, start anew, and use past lessons as warnings. It likens memory to a phonograph cylinder, urges forward momentum, and posits blueprints for 1928 as essential to avoid shipwreck in life. It closes with a call to forget and begin again.
Chinese Observe New Year on January 1
The piece notes that Chinese celebrate New Year on January 1 in line with the Gregorian calendar adopted after the Chinese republic founded in 1912. It explains the calendar’s naming from Pope Gregory and its global use.
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Gregory
Harsh protest and a near miss on the curb
A car stops abruptly as a teen is nearly struck. A white faced boy is helped by a passerby doctor. The driver admits carelessness and offers help. the boy urges a New Year resolve and suggests future plans, ending with a tentative truce between them.
Philology Reveals Vanished Aryan Ancestors Through Language
A Kansas City Times essay discusses how comparative philology uncovers an ancient tribe that formed the ancestors of the Aryans. It explains that no histories document them, yet language work reconstructs their society, laws, worship, and roles in world history.
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Europe
Asia
Kansas City Times
Time Passes Near Year Turns From This Year to Next
The line reflects how the coming year approaches, making this current year feel like the previous one. It notes the swift passage of time and the perception of imminence as days count down toward the new year.
Answer Key From Old Newspaper Quiz Snippet
The fragment lists items and names tied to a quiz key: 1 Greater Antilles 2 a 4 min 56 sec record by Enoch Taylor of Lowell MA 8 seven four in two contexts 4 Gen George A Custer 5 Sol Smith Russell 6 Aconcagua 71 Benjamin Franklin 19 amendments 9 fourth from the sun 10 William Rockhill Nelson 5 3 of the sun and 2 of the moon 12 any religious formula 18 any planets when preceding the sun 14 William Cullen Bryant 15 Dunlap and Claypoole's Daily Advertiser 16 from Panama to Cape Horn 17 Buenos Aires 18 twenty five years 19 1896 Harvard sophomore Frederick J Goodrich 20 Gen Joseph Wheeler
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George A. Custer
Sol Smith Russell
Aconcagua
Argentina
Benjamin Franklin
Venus
Jupiter
Mars
Mercury
Saturn
William Cullen Bryant
Dunlap and Claypoole
Daily Advertiser
Philadelphia
Panama
Cape Horn
Buenos Aires
Frederick J. Goodrich
Harvard
Joseph Wheeler
Adam Brothers and the Furniture of Robert Adam
The four Adam brothers shaped eighteenth century English furniture led by Robert Adam. Although he never built a piece, he designed rooms and the furniture within, using precise classical forms and motifs drawn from antiquity and Pompeii.
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America
Four Adam Brothers
England
Robert Adam
Islanders Evade Tax Demands at Eddy Island
Gal way county faces a stubborn tax dispute with Eddy Island residents who have not paid county charges for years. Bailiffs have been repulsed before and cattle are hidden when enforcement arrives, with the island owing about $100,000.
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Eddy Island
Galway
Ireland
School Term Lengths Across Europe Vary Wide
The bureau of education lists diverse term lengths across countries. Italy and Estonia set 180 and 215 days respectively, while Germany France and Czechoslovakia exceed 200 days. Hungary Lithuania Denmark Finland span 200 to 250 days with vacations. Portugal runs October 1 to July 21 with six to eight weeks off, Latvia 4 weeks, Spain October 1 to June 15.
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Bureau of Education
Italy
Esthenia
Germany
France
Czechoslovakia
Hungary
Lithuania
Denmark
Finland
Portugal
Latvia
Spain
Czar of Dairies Larson Resigns for National Dairy Council
Dr. C. W. Larson, who has resigned as chief of dairy industries in the Department of Agriculture, will take over as director of the National Dairy Council.
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C. W. Larson
Dairy Industries
Department of Agriculture
National Dairy Council
Observed Horace Parodies Hilda in Gown Comment
A dialogue notes Horace asking about Hilda's gown and Herbert replying the gown resembles Hilda in many places. The exchange implies a comparison without naming a specific event or person beyond Hilda.
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Horace
Hilda
Herbert
It Tenant Complains About Roof Leak
A tenant complains that the roof leaks with a hole the size of a thumb. The landlord dismisses the issue saying to not bother him.
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