Intruder in Gate Seeks Codes and Decoded Letters
A man discovers a cloaked visitor in his study on New Year’s Eve. A woman in boy’s clothes reveals she decoded a set of coded letters hidden in the safe and explains her motive as she begs not to be reported, then asks to be taken home.
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Mehta
Lie
Dan
Dora
Dassing Ear and Era Merge in Quiet Reverie
A reflective piece contemplates how landmarks fade as eras blend into a singular image. Personal memory intertwines with shifting places and evolving identity, evoking a contemplative mood about change and time.
New Year’s Finances and a Safe Breaker’s Tale
In a 1933 Western Newspaper Union piece Jim Truman resolves to start the year debt-free and to save. His family learns his plan as Anne and the children juggle bills and a planned New Year dinner while he contemplates paying off creditors and funding savings.
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Lert
Daddy Jim
Elere
Anne
Jia
New Year Rescue on a Country Road
Don Carlton stranded by a snow melt detour seeks help at a cottage. A kind family welcomes him, shares a hot meal, and he realizes the packed gifts he planned to return to Nelson Stores should be given to the Dalton family for Christmas.
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Carlton
Webster
Fiolton
Chicago
Tha É
Don
Ife
Nelson
Rectory
Dalton Cottage
Dalton
Western Yewaoaner Union
Slippers Spark Cupid in New Year's Eve Mischief
A quiet bachelor, John Eilers, misses a practical joke until a delivery yields a pair of golden slippers. Lucia Bell, rushing to a Studio ball, discovers the slippers and rekindles romance as John helps her into them. Time and New Year’s revelry frame a playful rescue.
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John Eilers
John
Mr. Bachelor
Laucia Bell
Football an Old Time New Year Celebration
Football a New Year custom in Kirkwell Orkneys features two sides meeting at the market cross to play a general game through the town streets. Players from all grades of society participate as the ball travels toward the sea and the cathedral district residents vie to win it.
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Kirkwall
Orkneys
New Year Twelve Grapes Custom Mentioned in Calendar Note
A New Year Eve tradition described as eating twelve grapes is recorded, with each grape symbolizing a month of the year, observed wherever gatherings occur.
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Western Newspeyer Union
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Lucila Bell
Western Nowspaper Union
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Old Beason
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