New Year's Ball and a Lost Lovers Reunion
A moonlit hillside tale unfolds of a pair who parted ten years ago. The brook and path recount their wait as a man returns to meet a woman at their old meeting spot, then walk to a stone house for New Year’s beginnings. Later, Archie elevates Gaynor and the Sea Group wins a fifty dollar prize in a New Year pageant, fueling renewed ambition.
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Archie
Gaynor
New Year Prayer From Mother's Magazine
A devotional verse asks for daily strength to work and endure life’s troubles. It seeks renewed mind and body each dawn, grace to meet small cares with a gentle word, patience amid turmoil, and quiet helpfulness for loved ones.
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My New
Mother's Magazine
Beginning the New Year Foolishness and Habits
A fragment discusses starting the new year and the view that a person who begins foolishly is seen as weak and prone to forming bad habits. The note reflects a moral observation on self-control and behavior at year’s start.
A New Year Recipe By Mary Graham Bonner
A playful verse lists ingredients such as good will happiness cheer and good resolutions. It instructs to mix unselfishness appreciation of neighbors restraint from gossip and seeing good in all then bake with heat until the year yields a welcoming dish that lasts.
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Mary Graham Bonner
Western Newspaper Union
New Year Prayer Teaches Numbering Our Days for Wisdom
A reflection citing Moses urges counting days in the new year to apply the heart to wisdom and discernment. The line frames time not as mere measure but as a path to wiser living and purposeful choices.
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Moses
New Year Memories by Mary Graham Bonner
The Old Year and New Year converse about memories and the passage of time. The Old Year departs as the New Year arrives, with the New Year reflecting on thoughts of childhood, past celebrations, and the memories that linger with the fresh start.
Good resolutions and personal reform in Johnson’s view
The piece argues resolutions inspire self reform though Newman rejects them as pointless. It suggests beginning anew with will and principle leads to progress, while ending the year with excess harms character. It notes Faber’s work ethic and warns that without resolve moral progress stalls.
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Newman
Faber
Western Newspaper Union
The Passing Years
The poem reflects on aging with tender satisfaction for a well lived life. It celebrates good deeds as song birds in the heart and praises cherished friendships as time passes. It notes growth in grace and self mastery bringing peace as life grows shorter.
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Association of Friends
New Ears for New Years
Martha Thomas suggests a new year plan to filter sound clutter and keep only essential news. The piece laments constant noise of news gossip and orders and urges a sharp censorship to hear what truly matters.
New Year Promises and Human Courage in a Reflective Essay
Katherine Edelman Hat writes of the New Year as a time of renewal, courage, and hopeful resolve. She explores gifts without number, daily pleasures, and the joy of striving, noting how achievement often comes from persistent effort and ever-higher goals.
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Star of Hope
A Happy New Year by H Lucius Cook
A New Year greeting encourages forgiveness and renewed effort. The piece wryly notes resolutions are often broken yet urges sincere striving to begin anew, rub away past errors, and persist with vigor as each day can mark a fresh start.
New Year’s Eve Revelry and Church Resolutions
Jim Jenkins faces a social choice between attending a Colonial party and nursing his sick mother on New Year’s Eve. His father urges him to stay, highlighting family duty over social life, while Jim resolves to remain with his mother. In town, church women prepare a New Year banquet and resolve to improve finances and membership as Sister Ross surprises with a generous thousand dollar check. The scene contrasts personal loyalties with communal duties and hints at Mrs. Ross’s hidden literary success.
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Whnkins
Colonial
Blair County
Jane Berdon
Jenkins
Jim
Blowsville
Aid Society
Mrs. Binn
Sister Ross
Mrs. Hopkins
Mrs. Brown
Mrs. Broad
Brother Franklin
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University of Illinois
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Katherine Edelman
H. Lucius Cook
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