Old-time football stars clash with modern game pace
The piece examines how football legends like Pudge Heffelfinger and Snake Ames compare to today’s players, noting weigh, stamina, and roughness shifts. It argues old players were tougher but today's gear and speed create a different game, with longer careers and higher speeds challenging past benchmarks.
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Walter Eckersall
Eckie
Grome
Uding Doak Walker
SMU
Profit and Stephenson
Army
H-Rcheolyg
Brennan
Notre Lege
Carl Snaveon
Welcoming New Year Poem Fragment
A fragmented welcome poem greets the New Year with hopeful lines. It asks what the year brings, speaks of joy and balm for heartaches, and hopes for friendship, trust, and new beginnings as the old year fades away.
Strange New Year Beliefs Still Exist Across Britain
Strange New Year beliefs persist in England and Scotland with superstitions about not wearing old clothes, avoiding early exits, and the first visitor blessing or cursing a house. In Herefordshire, midnight customs grant favored matches to those who drink first from the spring. A light kept burning is deemed lucky. giving away a light on New Year's Day invites misfortune.
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England
Scotland
Highlands
Ged Hick
Herefordshire
Pins as New Year Gifts Through History
The piece traces early gift customs from Bishop Hall and Ben Jonson noting New Year capons and a blue coat serving man with orange and rosemary. It explains how oranges, nutmeg, gilded apples, and pins evolved as social gifts, with pin money emerging as money substitute for pins among fashionable ladies.
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Bishop Hall
Ben Jonson
Saint Sylvester Feast Day Observed Across Faiths
The feast of St. Sylvester marks year end observed by Roman and Anglican churches on December 31. In Germany and Belgium the morning is devoted to worship while the afternoon and evening turn to horseplay as New Year nears.
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Sylvester
Germany
Belgium
Facts and Fancies of New Year's Day Celebration
New Year s with its open houses parties exchanging of New Year s cards horn footing Auld Lang Syne and New Year s resolutions is one of the oldest celebrations. As a holiday it has been observed since ancient times and has been marked by the giving of gifts and the exchange of greetings and good wishes.
Watch Night Services Mark New Year’s Eve
New Year’s Eve is observed as Watch Night in many denominations with services running from 9 or 10 until midnight. St George’s Methodist Church in Philadelphia held its 78th watch night service, a tradition tracing back to the church’s 1770 founding and its claim as hosting America’s first Protestant church services.
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Methodist Episcopal Church
Wat
St George's Methodist Church
Philadelphia
America
Mummers Parade History in Philadelphia New Year Tradition
The New Year’s Eve Mummers parade evolved from English and Swedish customs in early Philadelphia. Washington shifted St. George’s role, leading to a funded parade by 1866, official city recognition in 1901, and growing public participation by the early 20th century.
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Philadelphia
New Orleans
George Washington
St. George
Silver Crown
Public Reception At White House
The piece notes the longstanding presidential custom of New Year receptions open to the public. It cites Washington hosting the first reception and continuing annually during his Philadelphia years as capital.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
White House
Republic
United States
Washington
Philadelphia
New Year Kisses Began In Scotland
The custom of exchanging pure platonic New Year kisses began in Scotland with at twelve o clock greeting the nearest girl. In Scotland no work was done on New Year s as late as 1904. at Edinburgh s Waverley station porters and crabs were absent as a visiting noble lord rode to his hotel in a milk cart.
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Scotland
Lord Langdale
T. D. Hardy
Waverly
Edinburgh
January Named For Ancient God
The name January stems from the two faced god Janus who was linked to light and day. He became the god of beginnings and a festival Angonia marked the start of the year. Trade and shipping were under Janus guardianship and he was credited with agriculture.
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Janus
Angonia
New Year's History Across Civilizations and Eras
New Year's has been observed as a holiday for about five millennia, celebrated in diverse civil and religious contexts. From ancient Babylon 3,000 years before Christ, the day was sacred to Marduk, the solar god, with gift giving and rejoicing noted across many eras and places.
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Babylon
Marduk
Four Piece Bookcase For Your Living Room
A DIY guide for building modern sectional bookcases to decorate a living room at low cost. Describes adaptable layouts along walls or around corners and notes minimal tools required. Includes pattern No. 42 details from East-Bird Pattern Company, Pleasantville.
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Ale Nicest
Anyobe
East-Bird Pattern Company
Dept. W
Pleasantville
Practical tips for DIY sewing and cooking leftovers
When cutting a dress pattern attach it to fabric with small tape strips and mend tears with the same. Use leftover ham as a middle layer for scalloped potatoes. In lunch boxes, include soup in a vacuum bottle, with hearty pea soup, fish chowder, or a cream soup pairing well with sandwiches.
Planning a Living Room Reading Nooks by Thread Types
The plan assigns each family member a distinct reading space with targeted lighting. It notes using mercerized or cotton thread for mending kid gloves and warns silk thread tears when sewing. It also advises stopping oyster cooking before edges curl and recommends cooking oyster stews over water.
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