New Year's Across Cultures Through History and Custom
The article surveys diverse New Year origins and observances from ancient Egypt and Rome to medieval England and modern Europe. It details calendar shifts from March and September openings to January 1, explains Janus symbolism and royal gifts, and notes customs like wassail bowls, hogmanay figures, first footing, and festive rituals in France Germany Belgium and Russia, finishing with an American reflection on modern celebrations and present-day sentiment.
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Penelope
Solon
Pericles
Julius Caesar
England
Janus
William the Conquerors
Capitol
Old
Rome
Elizabeth
Scotland
Europe
Belgium
Frankfort-on-the- Main
France
Paris
St. Nicholas
Miner Rescued After Seventeen Days Buried in Edison Shaft
L B Hicks, a former soldier and experienced miner, was freed at 11:15 PM on December 22 after being entombed under sixty feet of earth for fifteen days in a Kern River tunnel project linked to Edison Electric Power Company. Five helpers perished, while Hicks survived on tobacco and milk via a pipe, aided by a drifting tunnel approach and constant encouragement from rescuers and friends.
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Bakersfield
Cal
L. B. Hicks
Edison Electric Power Company
Hicks
Kern River
Site chosen for Denver public building location
Washington confirms block 127 bounded by Eighteenth Nineteenth Champa and Stout streets will host the next public building. Colorado delegation members present approve Supervising Architect Taylor and Secretary Shaw selection as suitable for a combined building on the Coliseum block long used for state conventions.
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Washington
Denver
Champa
Stout
Shaw
Colorado
Congress
Cook
Messrs
Brooks
Teller
Patterson
Bonynge
Hogg
Taylor
Good Roads Convention Endorses State Aid System
At the Denver Good Roads convention resolutions endorsed a policy for state aid and supervision of principal market road construction linking commercial centers. A legislative committee will draft bills for the incoming Legislature. County boards, city and civic groups urged to endorse and forward resolutions to S. A. Osborn in Denver.
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Denver
Board of County Commissioners
S. A. Osborn
Opera House
Colorado
Congressmen Visit Panama Newark
Ten congressmen and one senator sailed Friday for Colon to inspect the Isthmus of Panama and study canal digging conditions. Senator Flint and representatives McKinlay Knowland Fulkerson Dickson Rives McKinney Smith Howell Kinkaid Steenerson visit Panama at Secretary Taft's invitation.
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Newark
Colon
Sthmus
Panama
Flint
McKinlay
Knowland
California
Fulkerson
Missouri
Dickson, Rives
McKinney and Smith
Illinois
Howell
Utah
Kinkaid
Nebraska
Steenerson
Minnesota
Aft
Telegraph Links Wrangel Alaska To World
Wrangel on the southeastern Alaska coast gained telegraphic connectivity with the outside world for the first time on Friday. The Burnside cable ship established shore connections and the office is now open for business.
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Seattle
Wash
Wrangel
Alaska
United States
Burnside
Tramp Confesses Anarchist Kill in Colorado Lynching Tension
A Las Animas dispatch reports Lars Seeberg a Cripple Creek tramp who shot Henry Lanvermeyer a rich farmer at Horse Creek and drank the victim's blood. He boasted of the crime as a shift away from landowners and was kept from lynching by Sheriff Brown as a 400-strong mob gathered.
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Denver
Las Animas
Henry Lanvermeyer
Horse Creek
Lars Seeberg
California
Cripple Creek
Seeberg
Brown
Robinson
J. H. Hill
Horse Creek Valley
George Purvis
Purvis
Lanvermeyer
John Mariman
Sheriff Brown
la Junta
Sweden
Record Rail Construction Surge Across North America
Chicago notes the year’s railway building reached 6 064.40 miles, the highest in eighteen years since 1887 when nearly 13 000 miles were laid. Canada built 972.71 miles on 31 lines and Old Mexico about 245 miles across nine lines, totaling about 223 139 miles nationwide by year end.
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Chicago
Western Pacific
Mississippi River
Canada
Old Mexico
England Braces as Heaviest Snowstorm Disturbs 1906 Christmas
London reports a heavy snowstorm across the United Kingdom marking a memorable Christmas of 1906. Northern England and Scotland saw four to six inches of snow with heavy gales causing drifts and major travel disruption. Coast wrecks occurred with lifeboats rescuing crews, while no serious loss of life was noted.
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London
United Kingdom
England
Scotland
Colorado News Items from the Lyons to Denver
A roundup of Colorado developments includes Burlington depot construction at Lyons and expansion of shops and yards in Denver at about 500000, Greeley Gas and Electric buying land for a large plant, Empson Canning in Longmont stacking 600 tons of pumpkins for canning, and a new federal building planned for Trinidad at 60000.
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Burlington
Lyons
Denver
Greeley Gas and Electric Company
Empson Canning Company
Longmont
Federal
Trinidad
East Main Street
S. S. Bernard
Cripple Creek Drainage & Tunnel Company
Samuel McFarland
Bull Hill
Cripple Creek
City Hall of
Gerald Webb
Colorado Springs
Jefferson Davis
Webb
J. A. Hayes
Ages of senior Royal Navy leaders and admirals
The article lists ages of senior naval figures including Lord Charles Beresford about sixty five, Admiral Bosanquet at 63, Sir Charles Drury at 87?, Vice Admiral Curzon-Howe at 56, Rear Admiral Bridgman at 58, Prince Louis of Battenberg at 52, and Farragut at 61 at his greatest battle.
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Searren
Lord Charles Beresford
Admiral Bosanquet
Mediterranean
Charles Drury
Curzon-Howe
Atlantic
Bridgman
Prince Louis of Battenberg
Farragut
Disfiguring Skin Disorder Healed by Cuticura Remedy
A man describes a long eczema battle from 1894 to 1905, detailing severe coverage on head neck and body, itching and raw flesh, and crediting Cuticura Ointment and Soap with a complete cure. He urges others to use the remedies for speedy, permanent skin relief. Also notes a British battleship Dreadnought searchlight system with dual beams and 50,000 candle power for long-range signaling.
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Thomas M. Rossiter
Prospect Street
East Orange
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