New Year Resolutions: A Call to Self Accountability
A discussion of how New Year resolutions prompt self examination and the pursuit of personal improvement. Reverend Talmage’s stories illustrate that even broken resolutions can lead to lasting change by making one supreme resolve to better oneself.
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Heroes of Commonplace Greeting for the New Year
A short reflective note salutes readers achieving success and facing a secure upward path as a new year begins. It highlights shared aspirations and communal well wishes for progress and happiness.
The Temple of the Years and the New Year
The speaker recalls the old year amid a temple of years, contrasting past trials with a smoother horizon. They reflect on backward glances, the burdens of yesterday, and the hope that the new year arrives apparelled in wealth of experience, ready to carry forward the good.
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New Year’s Hope for All Faces of Life
A Collier’s Weekly inspired meditation on optimism for those facing crises and grief and on the unseen heroes who sustain daily life. It speaks of sunshine, courage, and time’s tender ministration amid a cold, unknown world.
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New Year Wish Echoes Forward Happiness
A hopeful line expresses that yesterday’s joy should equal the happiness hoped for in tomorrow, framing a year of balanced contentment. The tone is reflective and gentle, emphasizing a steady pursuit of joy across days.
New Year Traditions in Japan Highlight Morning Rituals
In Japan New Year customs emphasize early rising and formal rites. Families wear gala clothes greet gods and ancestors, with a special breakfast of symbolic dishes and tea drawn from a well. Festivities span many days as business halts and cultural meals symbolize renewal.
Sympathy and Gift Reflect Quiet Joy in Leisure
A reflective note speaks of a heart at leisure from itself to enter joyous moments. It describes a gift that is direct, enduring, and simple, suggesting generosity that lasts beyond a single moment.
Forming Resolutions for a New Year
The writer reflects on past promising aims and urges renewed resolutions for the new year. It cautions that intentions fade without effort but encourages making firm plans and sticking to them as 1914 begins.
Washington man patents folding flap postcards
A Washington man patents postcards featuring a folding flap at one end designed for mailing small flat articles. The innovation aims to simplify posting compact items by adding a secure flap.
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Washington
Why the Farmer Emigrated to Canada the Paradise of the Poor
A Chicago journalist recalls a Western Canada farmer who left Iowa for 160 acres, then expanded to about 3000 acres debt free. He notes land costs, yearly returns from wheat, and how in five years he transformed from renter to prosperous owner, illustrating Canada as a land of boundless opportunity.
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Close Friends Dunning Quip in Sunday Magazine
A quirky dialogue notes Sanders and WHarrie as close friends who refuse to lend even a two cent debt. The piece shifts to a question about whether one should help those who repeatedly dun them, capturing light social commentary from a Sunday Magazine page.
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