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Newspaper
Polk Progress
Location
Polk, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1950
Page
2
Ancient Egypt tied the New Year to the Nile flood in June while Babylonians and early Romans used March patterns. Romans hung Bacchus masks on trees for fertility, Romanian youths sang door to door, Scottish villagers switched fruit-tree trunks, and peasant families baked and dashed New Year cakes to ward off hunger.
Ernestine Evans recalls a turn-of-the-century family game where Aunt Callie invited guests to New Year’s dinner and an April 1 reveal. Each person wrote one resolution sealed in an envelope and read aloud after feasting, celebrating kept promises and sparking new good habits.
Priests gathered the people on the Calends, the first day of each month, to announce sacred days and festivals. Citizens then marked feasts on their fasti, noting important days in red.
The Rose Bowl began as a supplement to the Tournament of Roses with a 1902 east west game. Michigan’s 49 0 win over Stanford influenced keeping football, later chariot races turned pro, and by 1923 Arroyo Seco hosted the Rose Bowl with 85 000 seats. Attendance rose to 100 234 in 1949 as many bowls followed. The Rose Bowl remains the premier collegiate event and sparked numerous other bowls nationwide.
The article surveys dating systems from the Day of Creation to the Jewish calendar 5711 and A D notation, noting Christian era authorship, Julian period roots, and Scaliger's contributions. It compares ancient timekeeping to modern radio dating, proposing timelines from 4,000 BC to billions of years for Earth.
The New Year spanned 15 days from the First Day of the First Moon to Teng Chieh the Lantern Festival. Northern China kept it simple with paper lanterns, while Southern China staged grand lantern parades with fire-breathing dragons and many participants.
Informal New Year celebration guidance with cold mains and easy to assemble platters. Includes Red Cabbage Salad, Frozen Pineapple Salad, Raisin Bran Muffins, Creamy Spiced Milk Punch, assorted cookies and candies, plus simple prep tips and a few ready-to-serve dessert alternatives.
The column suggests frosting warm rolls with confectioners sugar icing and adding candied fruits for a festive look. It recommends toasted cheese sandwiches enhanced with a deviled ham spread and dusting apples between pork chops as a flavorful stuffing idea.
Pre revolutionary Russia rang in the new year with a hundred cannon shots at midnight. In Petrograd crowds decorated streets and the Winter Palace opened to society. Festivity and charity marked the holiday as the czar received greetings.
New Year in Japan features bells tolling 108 times at midnight and the recall of Buddha’s 108 commandments. People scatter parched beans to ward off evil and invite luck, while fire brigades parade as a New Year safety tradition amid fragile home construction.
Before England adopted the Gregorian calendar in 1752 New Year began on March 25 with New Year Eve on March 24. The public celebrated boldly despite Christmas suppression, and New Year persisted through Puritan bans and the 1752 calendar switch.
A campaign stop by Senator Vest in St. Charles Missouri includes a breakfast quarrel over coffee. Vest derides the coffee as weak while the proprietor answers simply it is coffee. The anecdote continues with a series of characters boasting about their fortunes and futures in light banter.
After a first production Shaw pauses between acts to ask the audience for opinions. A man in the pit shouts Rotten, but Shaw bows and jokes that the crowd outweighs the two of them, drawing amused smiles from the house.
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