New Year Customs of World Peoples Detailed
The piece surveys ancient and indigenous New Year rites across cultures. It describes Moqui and Aztec ceremonies with sun worship, serpent effigies, and blood rites, plus Ainu bear feasts and the ritual timing tied to solstices and equinoxes, highlighting religious fervor and communal spectacle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
American Southwest
Megamen
Mexico
Central America
Yucatan
Pacific Ocean
Japan
Kamul
New Year Period in Peking
The article notes a New Year period in Peking with three celebrations in under a month. It describes the familiar Western New Year alongside an oriental setting that gives the scene a picturesque, almost dreamlike quality.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peking
England
Deer's Bond With Man Grows At Alpine Dam
Jerry Shine of the Alpine dam staff recalls a two pronged buck that he nursed as a fawn after finding a dead doe on a forest trail. The deer later returned, showed horns, and posed with Shine on the dam parapet as a photographer captured the moment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jerry Shine
Municipal Water District
Alpine Dam
San Raphael
Cal
Shine
Miles
Billy
Out of Place Book Lover Finds Fly on Wrong Page
A book loving father in his library searches for valuable fragments as his son helps. The child asks if every book has a flyleaf, and the father explains torn ones. The boy then laments finding a fly squashed on the wrong page, highlighting the mishap.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Weill
Unprofitable Reading and Memory Failure
A reflection on reading that bores a reader, deeming the activity profitless. The passage notes that if any part should be remembered it is forgotten, illustrating a critique of disengaged study and retention.
Prison Baseball Teams Earn Fame and Healthy Spirit
Prison teams like Sing Sing’s Mutual Welfare league squad play on home grounds with bleachers and a graded field. They schedule weekend games against visiting nine s from New Jersey and Connecticut and have defeated strong semi professional clubs. The Eastern Penitentiary in Philadelphia also maintains a noted baseball program that has produced skilled players.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sing Sing
Mutual Welfare League
New Jersey
Connecticut
Eastern
Philadelphia
Indian Bones Found in Bronx Likely Aboriginal Remains
Workers on a corset factory tennis court at Two Hundred fifty sixth Street and Palisade Avenue in the Bronx uncovered two skulls and other bones. Robert Stepler of the Bronx morgue said the bones were probably Indian. Earlier, two skeletons were found in the same area on October 29, and it is believed the aborigines once had a fishing colony and burial ground there.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bronx
Max Kapp
Two Hundred and Fifty-sixth Street
Palisade Avenue
Robert Stepler
New York World
Australian Industry Rule Kangaroos Says Expert
A quoted remark suggests one industry in Australia governs kangaroos, with a comment that such work keeps keepers on the move. The source reflects a humorous or speculative take on industrial control of wildlife.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Australia
Also Mentioned on This Page
Wy Gee
Grove
Deer
Eastern Penitentiaries
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!