Great Northeaster Sweeps New York Coast Wrecks Barges
A massive wind and rainstorm along the New Jersey and New York coast claimed twelve lives and caused millions in damage. Two coal barges the A C Ropes and the Undaunted wrecked off Forked River with seven seamen dead. two men perished from exposure near Trenton. a workman drowned off Sunken Meadow. Piers, Governor's Island, and Coney Island facilities flooded and destroyed. Official winds reached 123 miles per hour, the strongest on record at Long Branch.
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Western
Union News Service
New York
A. C
Forked River
N. J
Undaunted
William B. Fickett
Chelsea
Mass
O. Olson
Providence
A. C. Ropes
Trenton
East River
Sunken Meadows
Governor’s Island
Coney Island
Brighton Beach
Jersey
Atlantic Ocean
New Year Resolve in Maude DeVerse Newton Verse
A reflective verse ends with a vow to start anew framing a personal renewal. Maude DeVerse Newton speaks of shedding piety worn thin by time and vowing to resist temptation and pursue a truer path in the coming year. The poem foregrounds themes of discipline, habit, and moral reformation.
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Mother Grundy
Maude DeVerse Newton
New Year Do Nots From Lippincotts Reminder
A list of New Year do nots offers cautions on temper, thrift, behavior, and planning. Warnings cover arrogance, luck, appearances, and peace versus war, urging purpose and self restraint in daily life.
New England Pilgrims Observe New Year With Work
The sole record of New Year observance by Pilgrims in New England is blunt and prosaic, noting only that they “went to work the times.” Puritan ministers distrusted secular festivity, while settlers hailed New Year in England as a time of song and ritual, with Singing Hen as a popular name for New Year’s Eve.
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New World
New England
Janus
New Day Brightens Night into Morning
The poem invites a gentle dawn mindset. It urges calm patience and moving with the times, turning faces toward light, and spreading kindness along life’s path, so that even amid form changes a hopeful New Day emerges.
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Warry
Croft
The Days New Year Party In A Seasonal Pageant
A whimsical depiction of the Days of the year hosting a New Year feast with 365 guests, the Festi vals, and a procession of personified days. Characters like Christmas Day Ash Wednesday and Saint Christopher’s Eve mingle, while Valentine courts May as Doomsday and others depart in varied moods and colors.
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Dominic
Oine
Lady Day
Lent
Doomsday
May
St. Christopher
Valentine
Pretty May
Good as New Aboard a New Year Resolution Mix-Up
A comic exchange shows a man boasting he kept no resolutions this year while admitting a pile from last year remains unused. The humor hinges on stubborn effort versus fleeting intentions as a titled lady remarks on resolutions.
Ring Out Wild Bells As Year Ends
Poem exhorts ring out the old and in the new as the year ends. Calls for casting out false pride, feud and greed while welcoming truth, peace, and a more generous, virtuous society led by kindness and justice.
New Year Traditions in England and Denmark
A historical note describes English New Year customs, noting bells as the main ceremony and earlier feasts and revelry. It contrasts Denmark where cannon salutes greet January 1 while rural Danes fire muskets at farmhouses to announce the new year.
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England
Denmark
Copenhagen
New Year Promises of Kindness and Sunshine
A 1920s style line of resolutions urges kindness and seeking the good in others. The speaker vows to carry sunshine into dark places and to try to make someone happy each day.
The Past and the Future Guidance
A reflective missive urging readers to shed past transgressions and enter the new year purified. The author compares self-presentation to ancient rites before the Parthenon, urging clean garments and aspirational conduct as farewell to the old year and welcome to the new.
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Parthenon
Newell Dwight’ Hila
President Moyer deported over Christmas disaster relief stand
Calumet Mich President Charles H Moyer of the Western Federation of Miners was deported after families affected by the Christmas eve disaster refused relief from a Citizens' Alliance relief committee. The federation allegedly forbade members from accepting any of $25000 raised for panic victims.
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Calumet
Mich
Charles H. Moyer
Western Federation of Miners
4& Committee
Citizens’ Alliance
Duel ends in double suicide amid lawsuit dispute
Report from Pineville Kentucky says Solomon Jackson and Tate Souders met over a lawsuit and, while clasping hands with pistols in their right hands, killed each other. The strange duel left both men dead.
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Lexington
Pineville
Solomon Jackson
Tate Souders
Cincinnati Market Report Prices for Wheat to Lambs
A detailed wholesale price list from Cincinnati covering commodities including Wheat Corn Oats Hay Poultry Eggs Cattle Bulls Calves Hogs Sheep and Lambs. It lists current no 2 red wheats no 3 red corns oats hay and live stock figures with varying grades and weights across prices.
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Bologna
Why Should I Stop? Driver In Crash After Christmas Party
San Francisco police arrested J. Casselli, chief engineer, after a car struck a group of children on Christmas night. He said he did not stop but later learned a girl had died. He claimed he thought another person helped the injured child.
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San Francisco
Cal
Casselli
Attorneys at Law in Batavia Ohio Notice
Attorneys at law offices listed in Batavia Ohio with names Griffith Nichols Nichols Nicola Nichols in Courier Building Main Street. References to Citizens Telephone and Risie Building.
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Roudebush
Batavia
Ohio
Courin Block
Jipwing
Ely
Clermont House
Main
P. Griffith
Clayton B. Nicholsriffith & Nichols
Attorneys-At-Law
Courier Bats
Ing
Belland Citizens’ Telephone
Kenly
HH. L. Nicola
Aichols & Nichols, Attorneys-At-Law
Risie Building
Main Street
School Examinations Schedule and Provisions
Examinations for teachers occur on the first Saturday each month unless it is a holiday then the following Saturday. Pupils take exams on the third Saturday in April and May. Four year provisional certificate applicants should consult the clerk before applying. Examinations at Batavia Chin x Ay Wasas 58. BAGBY President, DAVIS Vice President, JOHN MORRIS Clerk. 12-2
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Ay Wasas
Bagby
Davis
John Morris
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