Food Shortages Forecast For Holiday Season Across Items
A periodical notes persistent shortages in canned tomatoes chocolate salmon bananas and tuna with outlooks through 1947. It also discusses a shift toward oil and atomic energy impacting coal and gas, and covers the Democratic leadership scenario in Congress along with a Tennyson poem excerpt.
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Washington
Brazil
West
Africa
Alaska
Guatemala
Costa Rica
Democratic Congress
John McCormack
Massachusetts
Sam Rayburn
Texas
McCormack
Francis Walter
Pennsylvania
Walter
Ewing Thomason
el Paso
Tex
Pagans and New Year Cards Through History
The article traces New Year card origins from pagan times to modern uses. It notes early greetings on medals under Commodus, German 1450s cards with the Christ Child and wealth motifs, and China’s long card tradition. It links New Year cards to goodwill and festive symbolism.
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China
New Year's Day Milestones Across World History
A historical survey traces New Year's Day milestones from 452 B C to 1942. Notable events include the first New Year's celebration, Caesar era beginnings, Betsy Ross and Paul Revere births, Jackson at New Orleans, Lincoln emancipation, Greece independence, New York City consolidation, and the formation of Australia and the USSR.
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Capricornus
Janus
B.C
Paul Revere
Betsy Ross
George Washington
Kentucky
Great Britain and Ireland
Jackson
New Orleans
Lincoln
Greece
Turkey
New York City
Commonwealth of Australia
U. S
Republic of China
Ussr
Happy New Year Greeting Across Languages
A multilingual New Year message wishes happiness for all in several languages. It notes the greeting is universally shared and conveys a seasonal wish for a good and prosperous year ahead.
Debate on Solar Years Versus Calendar Years Continues
The article explains Earth's orbit takes 365 days 5 hours 48 minutes 46 seconds and discusses Leap Years keeping calendar and sun aligned. It notes the 1593 Gregorian calendar by Pope Gregory XIII adding 366 days to years divisible by four, excluding century years.
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Gregory XIII
Calendar Reform and New Year’s Day Adoption
In 1582 Pope Gregory XIII issued a proclamation switching from the Julian to the Gregorian calendar, establishing January 1 as New Year’s Day. The Gregorian calendar aligns with the solar year, reducing errors to one day every 3,323 years. Adoption spread slowly among Protestant states in the 18th century and only in the 20th century among Russia and Balkan nations.
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Gregory XIII
Gregory
Russia
Balkan
Scotch Gift Day Brings Feasting and Auld Lang Syne
The Monday after New Year is the big Scotch day of gift giving and festivity. Families gather to drink a cup of kindness yet for Auld Lang Syne and celebrate with cheer.
First Hanson Island to greet 1947 in Chathams colony
New Year begins on Hanson Island as the first land to meet 1947 after crossing the international date line. The British colony sits 414 miles southeast of Wellington in the Chatham Islands region.
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Hanson Island
Chathams
Wellington
New Zealand
Fragmented OCR Summary of Local Item
A damaged OCR snippet mentions a person and event with unclear details. Readable names or dates are missing, limiting concrete facts to a generic notice of a local matter under consideration.
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