Dutch grocer Schulzhein aids neighbors and family bonds
Schulzhein, a German grocer on South Walsted Street in Chicago, shares late hours and savings with poor residents. After a New Year visit to a sick neighbor, he discovers a hidden family connection, bringing together a widow, mother, and child. The tale blends charity with reflections on happiness and true prosperity.
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Schulzhein
Walsted Street
Chicago
Mr. Schulzhein
Cing
Ewing Street
Gretchen
New Year's Wishes by Gilbert Frederick Pastor Covenant Baptist Church
Pastor Gilbert Frederick reflects on the custom of New Year wishes as a global greeting practice. He notes the universality of wishing and the imperfect fulfillment of wishes, contrasting civilized and uncivilized traditions and sharing a image of boats bearing wishes launched at dusk on oriental rivers.
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Gilbert Frederick, D. D
Covenant Baptist Church
Chicago
Orient
Dinner Invitation Dilemmas Doomed by New Year’s Guests
Mrs. Smith laments inviting the Brownsons for New Year’s Day as a costly crowded social obligation. She frets about tedious salmon tales, crowded family stories, and offended rivals, while fearing spoiled meals and unruly children.
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Brownson
Mrs. Smith
Jones
Brownsona
Mamma
Dora
Mr. Willing
New Year Social Plans and Seasonal Verses
A dialogue notes New Year dinner plans with Mrs Brownson and the Van Sty es as hosts. The scene contrasts welcome hospitality with reflections on time, prosperity, and festive verses from various newspapers and poems about the new year.
Fashions and New Year Reflections in 1900s Style
Notes of fashions describe winter gowns for stout figures with kimono lines and white wool. New hats feature deep curves and ermine fur with gold satin and velvet centers. Décor includes gold aiguillettes and India silk sash ends on tea gowns, crepe de chine, and Liberty satin. The piece closes with patriotic New Year verse by T. C. Harbaugh.
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New York Post
Magenie
Steamed Pudding and Creamy Sauce From Detroit Free
Steamed pudding uses milk cereal or nut meal, molasses, dates, butter and soda. Steam three hours in a buttered mold, serve with a foamy sauce. Cream consists of butter brown sugar egg yolks scalded milk thickened, then folded in stiff egg whites with vanilla and lemon extract. Substitutions include raisins or figs.
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Detroit Free
The Man Who Swears Off Verse Note
A Chicago Mimes Herald verse warns against public boasts of swearing off vice on New Year’s Day. It urges quiet personal reform rather than loud displays, noting a man is diminished by forced proclamations of change.
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Sarah
Wilfred
Chicago Mimes-Herald
Scott
Scott & Bowne
New York
Man vows to quit swearing off New Year habits
A quoted man responds with defiance to the question of giving up old habits, admitting he will not abandon his practice of swearing off every New Year. The exchange hints at a light political or social caricature tone typical of the era.
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Washington Star
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