New York and Chicago Celebrate New Year’s Eve Traditions
The piece notes how New Year’s Eve draws crowds on Broadway and State Street with tickers horns and noise makers. It contrasts high end clubs and diners where the affluent seek tables and fancy meals with budget eateries serving cheap meals, illustrating city rituals and class differences in welcoming the new year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Broadway
Gotham
Coney Island
Chicago
State Street
van Buren and
Randolph
New Year Customs Span the Globe In Ancient Style
A travelogue style piece recounts how New Year celebrations vary across cultures and centuries. It notes contrasts from old worship rituals to modern city nightlife and traces calendar shifts from March beginnings to January 1 across Britain Japan Korea India Russia and Europe.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Greenwich
Siberia
New Zealand
Australia
Japan
Not the Throb of Love in Reminiscence
A couple on a sofa recount a mutual understanding and engagement, with the man recalling how he first noticed his partner and measured a ring. He questions if any thrill foretold their marriage while she recalls seeing him from a window, noting an amusing misperception about her partner’s legs.
Cuticura Cures Boy After Year of Eczema
A mother recalls her son Clyde afflicted with extensive eczema and scabs that bled. After a year of failed treatment, use of Cuticura Soap Ointment and Resolvent brought a night of sleep and full recovery in about six weeks, endorsed by their physician. Shiloh Ohio June 11, 1907.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clyde
Algy Cockburn
Shiloh
A Scheme That Failed From The Poor Man’s Plea
A collection of 1880s era blotter items and advertisements with brief jokes and social notes. It includes a drug advert for Hall's Catarrh Cure and Pettit's Eye Salve, a legal notice stamp, and light comic snippets about families travelers and children. The tone mimics a penny press page with varied short items.
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Yee
Exvberaw
Gen. Sherman
Yellow Kingdoms
Angwangi
Santa Claus
Malay Peninsula
India
Perth
West Australis
Calcutta
Bombay
Moscaow
St. Petersburg
Constantinople
Eczema
Cutiura
Illustrated
Sumday Magazine
Tree
J. Cheney & CO
Toledo
Hall
Cholly Saphead
Roxie Swellman
Miss Peppery
Mathera
Carrie
Arthur
Lena
Pettit
Howard Bros
Buffalo
N.Y
Whittler
Achlog
Ieee
Winslow
Wullena
Thia
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