New Year Celebrations Around the World and Calendar Tangles
A National Geographic Society bulletin outlines how a traveler could observe seven New Year celebrations and two Christmases in a year by visiting Greece Yugoslavia Romania Bulgaria Singapore Siam Arabia Abyssinia Jerusalem and China. It explains calendar drift from the Julian to Gregorian reform and why January 1 moved relative to solstices and solstice reckoning.
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Washington
National Geographic Society
Po Ie
United States
Greece
Jugo- Slavia
Rumania
Bulgaria
America
Singapore
China
Siam
Arabia
Red Sea
Abyssinia
Jerusalem
Hunter
Church Council of
Nice
Gregory
Turning the Leaf In Every Walk of Life
A humorous look at New Year resolutions as Laura Jean Libbey describes men from different walks—single men seeking better lives, husbands, fathers, a trolley conductor, a lunch counter roamer, a gambler, milkman, and chauffeur—each vowing to turn over a new leaf, then questions whether they will keep them. The piece notes hopeful intent but doubts lasting change.
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Mie
L Uttle
The
Free Lance
Rome
Caesars
Claudius
Nazabeus
Christopher Columbus
Haith
America
Walter Haleigh
Europe
Union
New York
Welcome to the New Year Poem by L. M. Thornton
A rhythmical greeting expresses hope for the year ahead and urges the reader to fill it with good deeds and joyous effort. The poem invites personal responsibility to make the year wonderful through kindness, persistence, and positive action.
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L. M. Thornton
Liberty Candy Recipe Card
Liberty candy requires one cup white sugar half cup water one pound raisins one pound dates and two pounds nuts. Chop fruit and nuts separately then combine cook sugar to a stringy syrup add flavor mix with fruit and nuts spread thin on buttered tin and cut into squares when nearly cold.
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Liberty Candy
Liberty
New Year Party Preparations and Festive Customs
A guide for hosting a New Year Eve party with a watch night theme. It suggests invitations, decorations like a hourglass and Father Time, a 12 candle cake, and symbolic favors for each month. Activities include reminiscences, dancing, and arranged matchmaking using duplicated party favors.
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Jack Horner
New Year customs through the ages and wartime impact
The article traces how New Year observances evolved from ancient gift exchanges to modern celebrations. It notes changes due to constitutional constraints and world-wide customs, cites Columbus and Raleigh as early figures, and recalls wartime prohi bition and New York’s vast spending on New Year’s Eve. A humorous aside follows a reader asking about resolutions and a jest about breaking hearts.
A Stitch in Time Repair Tip for Worn Garments
A sewing tip explains reinforcing worn wraps by stitching wide silk braid over the worn edge. Match color and sew neatly, pulling a thread at the edge to make the braid lay flat and avoid a patched look. The method aims for a seamless finish and extended garment life.
Tuberculosis in fowls warns poultry industry losses
Prepared by the United States Department of Agriculture the bulletin explains avian tuberculosis widespread in the United States its high mortality and slow onset. It covers how infection spreads from fowls to other animals and even humans via eggs or contaminated premises and outlines prevention through slaughter and disinfection.
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United States Department of Agriculture
United States
Division of Publications
Superior lice killer for kerosene emulsion recipe
Instructions describe mixing two gallons kerosene one gallon water one pound bar soap and one pint crude carbonic acid to form a spray ready treatment. Boil soap in water then combine with hot kerosene and acid while churning ten minutes, add six gallons hot water and apply to walls floors roosts and fences with a spray pump.
Swamp Root Kidney Liver and Bladder Remedy Ad
Dr Kilmers Swamp Root marketed as a pure vegetable remedy for kidney liver and bladder troubles. The ad claims no habit forming drugs and a sworn purity statement with each bottle. Samples offered by sending ten cents to Dr Kilmer Co Binghamton NY with newspaper mention.
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Dr. Kilmer
Dr. Kilmer & Co
Binghamton
N. Y
Old bachelor woos young maid with chorus line interruption
In a Brooklyn tale a forties era bachelor courts a twenty something girl. He sings to her at a piano selecting a sheet music piece but she interrupts boldly saying she will not grow old with him for 25 years. The fragment shows social norms and witty pushback in a street scene.
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Brooklyn Standard Union
Tit for Tat and the Engagement Break
A brief witticism about engagements, washing young clothes, and evolving ideals. The quip contrasts a broken engagement with personal change while hinting at social observations.
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McClure Newspaper Syndicate
Jack
Tom
Bellan
Bellans
Holland
Hinkle
Fimin Us
Hinkle Medical Co
A-2
Mayfield, Ky
Wall
Sar Waverly
Hew Keck
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