New Year on Wheels Across Mountain Range
Josephine and Mac Silver push toward California amid blizzard on a narrow road. A border patrolman, Mr Boseman, offers shelter and help as they navigate Snowy passes. In a rustic tearoom they mark a hopeful New Year and gratitude for safe passage.
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Man in Red Tie Still Hopes for White House Visit
Washington notes that since 1811 J. W. Hunefeld wore a red necktie and walked to the White House to shake hands with the President. After 1933 President Beaver left town and Roosevelt stopped the ritual, leaving Hunefeld barred at the gates but hopeful for a revival.
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New Year's Eve Origins From Rome to Modern Times
A compact history traces New Year's Eve from Saturnalia and the solstice, through Caesar’s calendar reforms, to Janus honoring dates. It notes early Roman demands for gifts under emperors, escalating until Claudius set a legal schedule for presents and celebrations.
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Ex-Fighter Jack Dempsey Seeks Quiet New Year Eve
Former heavyweight champion and New York restaurant operator urges restraint for New Year’s Eve. He advises young men and women to avoid heavy drinking, noting many women guests stick to ginger ale or simple mixed drinks. He says celebrations should be festive, not raucous, and that midnight kisses are not necessarily affectionate.
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New Year's Big Day in Horse Racing Circles
New Year's marks a turning point in horse racing as yearlings become eligible to appear under colors for the first time while two year olds join the three year old ranks. About 12 000 thoroughbreds in training age up to a year. Man o War’s birthday in Kentucky noted as a longtime benchmark. The sport’s major races including the Kentucky Derby, Preakness and Belmont loom for the rising juveniles.
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Wassail Bowl Recipe From Old English Tradition
A mellower recipe for wassail describes simmering spices in a teacup of water with cardamom cloves nutmeg mace ginger cinnamon and coriander. Mix with port sherry or madeira and sugar, whisk yolks and whites, warm the spiced wine, combine the mixture, bring to a froth, then stir in roasted apples and serve hot.
New Year Health Plan Urges Homemakers to Improve Diet
A homemaker column urges readers to mark the new year with reflection and an inventory of family nutrition. It stresses balancing protein fats and carbohydrates, ensuring minerals and vitamins, and boosting overall health through wiser food choices and affordable produce. The piece calls for a New Year resolution to build a stronger family diet in 1938.
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Household Tips On Coloring Laundry And Safety
A dated household column offers tips for dyeing fabrics with boiled water in a washer to achieve even color, stresses basement fire hazards from accumulations of inflammable materials, and advises cleaning burnt pans by salting and soaking to avoid scrubbing.
How to Cut Material for a Teieta Bedspread
Woman seeks advice on cutting fabric to minimize waste for a bedspread 39 by 20 inches. Instructions suggest cutting the center panel first, dividing upper diagram into two pieces for ruffles, and evenly dividing for two eloble parts. Includes guidance on generous seams and minimal hemming, with reference to Book I for welted seams and related bedspread patterns sold by Mrs. Spears at 20 S. Des Plaines Street, Chicago.
Dancing as a Cultural Form Across Early America and Beyond
From 1776 to 1011 American social dancing fused into six forms: the nxolka, Feel, square dance, minuet, waltz, and two sides. Teporis Coller's era shows a baroque mix. Between 1923 and 1833 over 25 new dances emerged, including the turkey trot, grizzly bear, Texas Tommy, bunny hop, hesitation, tango, mexicana, one step, Castle Walk, fox trot, Cariesion, black bottom, Lindy hop, rumba, and the big apple.
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