The Old Year And the New Poem and French Canadian Customs
A poetic vignette contrasts the old and new year with a scene of a veteran and a young soldier near midnight and a rose on his sword. The text then describes La Quete de l Enfant Jesus and La Guignolee traditions, where parish gifts for the infant Jesus and the poor are collected and masques roam at night begging for offerings, sometimes with a feared rebuke.
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Minna Irving
Leslie's Weekly
Parish Vrest
Beadle
Jesus
A Gala Day in France on New Year’s Morning
The article describes New Year’s Day in France with exchanges of cards flowers and bonbons. Gentlemen greet ladies with bows and kiss their hands while the family and guests begin a day of visits and lively chatter after a gay breakfast.
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France
Apoene
Children’s Day Frolics Across Russian Peasants
In Russia New Year’s is celebrated as a children’s day with old time frolics. Boys roam from house to house in the small hours with shelled wheat and dried peas, pelting residents until cakes or fruit are offered.
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Russia
First Footing Customs Across Ireland and England
The piece explains the old ritual of first footing in Ireland where a fair man is lucky while a dark man, woman, redhaired or squinting person brings misfortune. In northern England the preference is for a dark first footer.
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Ireland
England
New Year's Day In Far Off China
A Brooklyn Citizen report outlines how Chinese New Year is dated by the moon, not the sun, and celebrated with debt settlement, cleaning, offerings, and family rituals. Men visit relations for three days while shops close for a month, and greetings of Kung shi kung shi accompany hopes for wealth.
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Far
China
America
A. Watshying
New York
Brooklyn
Girdling the Globe Wish For New Year From Washington
A Washington Star description imagines Admiral Chester at the National Observatory starting a world wide electric New Year greeting at midnight December 31. The signal travels by cable to continents and islands from San Francisco to Hongkong, Russia to Africa and Brazil, circling back to Washington.
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Uncle Sam
Georgetown Heights
Admiral Chester
National Observatory
Our
Republic
Moscow
St. Petersburg
Europe
London
Africa
Alexandria
Nile
Madagascar
Mauritius
Lisbon
Madeiiras
Cape Verde Islands
Pernambu
New Year's on the Nile
The piece describes ancient Egyptian New Year customs in June known as the night of the drop. Priests and people watched the Nile for a miraculous rise, fires lit from altar coal lit homes, white garments, sacred oils, flowers and palms, and celebratory processions and songs across Egypt.
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Egypt
Isis
First Pins New Year’s Presents in Gloucester History
The article traces pin invention in Gloucester England during the 16th century and notes how pin money became a term for funds spent on feminine trifles for four centuries.
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Gloucester
England
How Indeed He Sends New Year Telegrams
A reader questions the sender of a New Year telegram that arrives as a collect message. The note requests clarity on expectations versus the billed cost and the intended greeting.
Auld Kirk Bell And High Pipers In The Highlands
In the Scottish highlands a clear frosty night rings with the tolling of the auld kirk bell and the playing of the bagpipes. A thoroughbred highlander on the hills produces a melodic, atmospheric tune that seems to waft across the landscape, beautiful and inspiring.
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Scottish Highlands
Philadelphia Ledger
Mocking suitor ends at hotel suite in Chicago
A young woman teases Mr Playn man about other girls named Lil Gumplins Sallie Plimborn Kate Isnoggies and Fan Billywink saying any would be a better wife. He admits the ache and turns away, considering the ruined plan of a hotel suite.
Facing It
Two men prepare to descend into a board house basement and confront an uncertain outcome. They endure a tense moment, then conclude the meal was no worse than usual as they brace for what lies ahead.
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Board House
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