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Newspaper
Sisseton Weekly Standard
Location
Sisseton, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1905
Page
3
A reflective 19th century style exhortation urges readers to begin each day with Jesus Christ and walk in duty despite life’s rough road. It emphasizes trust that times are in God the Father’s hands, though tomorrow remains unknowable, and calls for steadfast faith and daily perseverance.
A mythic meditation on time as a relentless, mournful force shaping spring to winter. Time bends the world, topples empires, and silences joys, leaving memory and longing in its wake. The verse contemplates mortality, renewal, and the transient nature of beauty.
Theodore L. Cuyler, D.D. urges readers to begin the year by walking with Jesus, serving him, and winning souls. He promises a happy year for those who endure trials and highs in close fellowship with Christ, determining daily to keep him present in every step.
In Russia New Year’s is the children’s day with old time frolics revived. Boys arm with shelled wheat and dried peas to roam at dawn and pelt neighbors until cakes or fruit are offered as a truce.
The article notes Rome's New Year as a sacred milestone with vows, gifts, and public blessings, marking January as a time of renewal. It mentions animals as omens: dogs bless or foretell luck, cats imply relocation, pigs signify plenty, snakes portend death, and jackdaws or crows warn of deceit in the coming year.
An American tourist driving through Hungary last summer noted road signs in German Magyar Italian Slavonian and Turkish. He adds that no single language was preferred.
A fragmentary verse piece unfolds a nocturnal nativity scene with Mary and infant Jesus. The poem blends dreamlike imagery, celestial signs, and reverent emotion as the maternal figure contemplates the infant, the manger, and the holy child’s significance to humanity. In hazy phrasing, it traces longing, devotion, and a call for divine guidance amidst a symbolic landscape.
A memoir fragment recalls old plantation life in North Carolina and New England, detailing Christmas Eve balls for enslaved people, plantation feasts, and family gatherings. The narrative names the Roanoke river region, plantation culture, and the speaker’s kept memories of a beloved nurse Tinda and servant Gabriel, with vivid seasonal imagery.
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