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Newspaper
Steele City Press
Location
Steele City, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1922
Page
3
The piece contrasts fashion changes with Putnam dye trends and reports a Petunia fire response system as described by a citizen. It then outlines a Tibetan lama festival where demons are chased away by masked lamas during a three day rite ending outside the south gate.
A columnist ridicules a man who wants repayment for flowers candy theater tickets and other chase expenses. The piece notes the long memory of critics and mocks the idea of an expense account for romance while condemning carelessness with matches as a cause of fires and divorces.
Two flappers inspect a window of a gown from fifty years earlier. One speaks of how a man who roughhouses a woman in such clothing would be in the wrong. The piece notes widespread modesty among women and mentions an overcautious general seldeni wins a battle.
A Boston Globe memory piece imagines a grandmother aged ninety three touring a future world. She witnesses flying cars, advanced surgery, lunar landscapes, and a global system of pipes heating cities while timeless social changes unfold.
A scratched excerpt narrates a mother and son returning to shore after fearing gorillas in a tunnel. The son recalls a matinee at the Olympian theater and the plan to see a dioscope show of ceilings and friezes. The dialogue shifts to an offer of new wonders like aerial rides and a Polar sea journey, interrupted by a nighttime shouting about sleep.
A fragment discusses warding off bad luck by burning or discarding a straw image at year end. It describes a ceremony where a straw effigy is removed from the home and taken away to influence fortune for the new year. References to a Koreafolk belief and New Year practices appear in the text.
The text notes ancient calendars where Egyptians Phoenicians and Persians began the new year at the autumnal solstice on September 21. Greeks in the fifth century B.C. started the year at the winter solstice on December 21. In 482 BCE Greeks shifted the festival to June 21 marking the start of commerce.
The Julian calendar marks New Year twelve days after the Gregorian date, and in regions with Greek church influence the holiday is observed on January 1.
The essay laments Andrews failing to steer toward steady progress. It contrasts the tug boat striving and doggedly pushing upriver with a boy’s vow to become a man, questioning whether leaps to wealth or status can replace steady toil and practical training.
A garbled note reflects on New Year customs and etiquette across centuries. It mentions Dutch influences, mid century rites, and the revival of old friendships while differences are resolved amicably amid social expectations.
A brief note on the custom of giving and receiving New Year gifts, tracing origins to Rome and noting its survival in France and Scotland while coins and gifts during Christ’s era differed in practice.
A request for ideas on crafting a fresh fair page labeled 10287. The note seeks guidance to frame a record of golden deeds for the Youths Competition and related fair features.
Paris correspondence reports a proposed transfer of Chopin's ashes from Pere Lachaise to the Warsaw church housing his heart. The plan has sparked protests from French admirers. Chopin, born to a French father and Polish mother, spent most of his life in Paris where he wrote his major works. Upon leaving Poland after the 1830 revolution, friends gave a silver vase of Polish soil that was scattered on his coffin in 1840.
An advertisement touts Dr Kilmer s Swamp Root as a pure non habit forming kidney liver and bladder remedy. It claims scientific vegetable formulation free of stimulants and offers samples by mail from Binghamton New York.
The fragment recounts a girl named Olry Ei Fatd Mutle Otranetsco in Indiana hearing local rabbit legends about egg hunts and hidden burrows. Her father shares a joke tale while peering past a fence, prompting a cautious warning about breaking wings as they recall children’s stories of Easter rabbits.
In Uganda's Babiuma tribes, a bride is seized by her husband after marriage. Her family binds her leg with a rope as a ritual tug of war ensues, then the husband carries her to his mother's home. The bride wails intensely for eight days.
A story recounts pianist Ossip Gabrilowitsch advising a prodigy to choose slower pieces. The protege retorts that the lessons are too expensive to afford for playing only rapid numbers, revealing tensions over technique and cost.
The fragment notes a character named Jean-Mand and Joan reflecting on bold feelings and a misheard line about a rake in a London setting. It preserves the era’s voice and hints at emotional tension and social intrigue.
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