New Year Resolutions End With Love in Stage Play
Lindly Folsom vows never to propose to Ming Wade again but confesses a new wish as Irma Wade confirms her love. After a year of pursuit and refusals, the two reunite, proposing a joint vow to marry on St Valentine’s Day, promising lasting happiness if fate agrees.
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Lindly Folsom
Wade
Lindly
Ming Wade
Irma
Walner
Miss Wade
Erma
Webb
Bond
Belile
Fema
Walt
Alenard
Tilin
Lanier
Arma
Jim
Folsom
la Worie
Lindly Polson
Lema
Abe
Min
Irina
Cavalier
Tent
Trinn
Llodly
Jupiter
Beginning The Year Aright
A 1914 poem by CORA A. MATSON DOLSON features Esther pledging her plans for the New Year. She promises to find her hat, provide milk for her cat, follow her mother, keep walls from marking, and refrain from digging garden seeds, hoping these actions finish the old year well.
Historic New Year Bell Heralds Liberty and Time Change
Philadelphia citizens gather at Independence Hall to hear the Liberty Bell ring in the New Year. The bell’s use for New Year’s celebrations ends after the 1776 Independence Declaration heralding. It cracks while tolling in 1835 and is no longer used for the occasion. Chile adopts Eastern Standard Time alignment with the US in 1910.
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Philadelphia
Shrine of Liberty
Independence
Brat Peat
Independence Hall
George Washington
Marshall
Liberty
Chile
United State
New Year Hostess Simple Home Refreshments
On New Year’s Day an at home tea hour offers simple, elegant treats. Serve hot tea or coffee with wafers, fruit pinches, and bouibon dips, plus jams and crostini. Pastry sweets include walnut meringue, crackers, macaroons, and marigold marguerites. Confections feature salted almonds, stuffed dates, Turkish delight. A plain rusks broth and lemon flavored cups add a warm finish.
Eternal Years and Truth Rise Like a Skyward Temple
Poem by Robertus Love with Bryant referenced lines, exploring eternal God's years, truth, and time. The speaker portrays time as an architect building a temple toward heaven, denouncing greed and cant while affirming enduring truth and divine constancy.
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Trath
Watch Night customs across cultures and New Year hope
The article recounts Watch Night and New Year rites from various traditions. It notes prayers at midnight, mutual forgiveness, and resolutions as old year ends and new year begins. It mentions Scotland's first footing and global New Year weddings and funerary customs.
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Jn Panin
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Marguerite Corian
American Press Association
Cora A. Matson Dolson
Esther
God
William Cullen Bryant
American Press
Ammnciation
Robertus Love
Scotland
Uut
Praper
Dr.l.f. Voke
Vernon
Curtis Hotel
DR. Voke
L. F. Voke
M. D
West Sixth Avenue
Columbus
Ohio
William Neiderhouse
Jefferson Township
Knox County
George C. Burke
Lloyd D. Gallion
A. D
Dee
L. B. Houck
Rogers’ Building
South Main Street
Mt. Vernon
Second Moor
J. ‘Doc’ Welsh
Red
East Gambier Street
Stream & Rimer
South Main St. Cit
Luther
Stream Wm
F. Rimer
Frank
East High Street
K. Conard
East Vine St
Bell
Bert D. Evans
B. Cooper
Eastside Public Square
Taugher’s Drug Store
East Side Public Square—Op
Posite Grand Theatre
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