Calendar Changes and Adoption of the New Style
A discussion tracing how calendar reform shifted new year beginnings from March 25th or Christmas to January 1st. It covers adoption timelines across Spain Portugal Holland Denmark Switzerland Italy France England and Ireland, noting key dates like 1582 1700 1752 and explains a perpetual calendar method for determining day of week for dates from 1700 to 2100.
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Impettion
Gregory Nii
Pontiff
Spain
Portugal
Holland
Duke of Requesens
Low Countries
Denmark
St Tiburce
Switzerland
France
England
Ireland
New Year Blessings and Poignant Verse on Wealth and Poverty
The Washington Star presents a festive scene of New Year lights and merriment beside stark poverty. Poetic lines urge compassion for the poor and outcast, reminding the wealthy to remember those at their gates. A political quip follows about a defeated congressional candidate expecting no change in turnout.
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Congress
Washington Star
The Christmas Table and the Babe’s Narrow Escape
A sermon on Matthew 1b recounts Herod’s destruction orders and the infant Jesus’s perilous infancy. It praises the pilgrims’ gifts of gold and frankincense and argues the cradle’s safety enabled salvation’s unfolding, then invites all faithful to a heavenly Christmas banquet celebrating Christ’s birth, life, and reign.
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Jesus
Heavenly Temple
Herod
Hyrcanus
Mariamne
Alexander
Aristobulus
Antipater
Bethlehem
Lfe
Lansing
Cairo
Egypt
Vilages
Sanhedrin
Christ
Archelaus
Augustus
Pame
Earth
Heaven
Jerusalem
Joseph
Mary
Job
Abraham
Jacob
Elijah
The
Jordan
B.C
Wesleys
Doddridges
Legh Richmonds
Edward Paysons
Vara
John Bietcker
Emilie Cook
Brooklyn
Prince Albert
Fas
John Brown
Haddington
John Janeway
Moses
the Lamb
Mount Zion
Loop Confusion On Chicago Elevated Boosts Fashion Talk
Two Chicago women discuss shopping and fashions while riding the loop. Since the loop opened one woman has been badly misdirected, frequently heading the wrong way and getting turned about. She confesses the loop’s shadow unsettles her and causes wrong station starts and travel mistakes.
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Chicago Chronicle
Cir
Chicago
Emporium
Tom
In New Navy Jack Tar Rants About Modern Warships
An old sailor comments on contemporary warships, mocking the reliance on iron over timber and the loss of traditional shipboard terms. He jokes about rivets, belaying pins, searchlights, fighting tops, and screws, lamenting the changing language of the navy.
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Navy
No Philippine representative barred from entering capital House
A fragment notes a stance that Philippine delegates to Washington should enter the house only if they abandon a trend of wearing two napkins with full dress. It also mockingly questions a woman's dress described as a dream and its cost causing a nightmare for her husband.
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Cass
House of Our Fathers
Washingtton
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Vatican
British Museum
Berlin
Bonn
Vienna
Madrid
St. Petersburg
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St. John
Patmos
Archangel
Calvary
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