31 Dec 1892
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Newspaper
Twillingate Sun
Location
Twillingate, Newfoundland, Canada
Date
Dec 31, 1892
Page
1
The piece recalls New Year customs with toasts and dances, noting old year farewells and new year hopes. It mentions GermanyFrance Celtic and Latin traditions, including cake fragments, house wishes, and levees, contrasting European courts with broader festal practices.
New Year dates shifted in England in 1752 from old Julian to new Gregorian style while Catholic regions had adopted it earlier. The article surveys diverse global customs from Egypt to Scotland, noting festive beginnings, religious observances, and the unique “first foot” Scots tradition influencing the year ahead.
This article extols coffee as a mental stimulant and medicine while warning of abuse. It notes caffeine raises pulse, narrows capillaries, and may disturb temper. yet it aids the nervous system in emergencies, fights stupor, and can treat typhoid fever, cholera infantum, whooping cough, and poisonings. It also claims hot coffee reduces contagion risk in malaria regions.
Advices to Mathers are urged to use Winslow’s soothing syrup for teething children. The cure claims relief from crying and pain, stops dysentery, regulates stomach bowels, and calms colic. Marketed as safe by trusted nurses and physicians, price 23 cents.
Chambers' Journal notes that royalty in earlier days packed a simple wooden bedstead with plain hangings for trips. Two beds were made at Cassie Works for royal voyages, one aboard the Osborne and another sent ahead to Darmstadt. Some beds remain as mementos in Dunkeld Baden Coburg.
The October number of Faratke's Advocats London Ontario includes full reports on Industrial and Western Fair Exhibitions with livestock prize lists. It also offers articles on The Horn Fix and Circular Barn with building descriptions and a portrait of Hon Thomas Greenway.
In The National: Landon Fog argues charcoal is ideal for smoke but coal gas offers cleaner London air. Mr Thwaites notes high costs but substantial savings. gas could replace smoky coal with a £11 million generating and mains system, benefiting Londoners by over four million pounds annually.
The holly, anciently Hodly-tree, prized for cabinet wood and polish, reaches forty feet, white and hard with close grain. Romans sent holly branches with New Year gifts as good wishes, and Southey’s verse praises its thorny leaves and age worn wisdom.
Dr Gregor recalls his mother's church attire with a skull cap a linen cap a broad ribbon and a rucking band. The outer dress includes a red wool cloak while everyday wear featured a duffle or bluish grey cloak and home spun clothes. His father wore a long coat with brass buttons and knee breeches on occasion.
The Chicago Ledger marks twenty years of publication with a circulation of 140,000 weekly. The paper combines news and family sections with a fashion department and a Young People's page. Subscriptions run $2 yearly, $1 half year, or 50 cents for three months.
A damaged text fragment advertises a Saturday Blade newspaper four years old with a large weekly circulation. It mentions subscription rates and specimen copies, plus promotional pitches, bids for readers, and garbled references to addresses and names.
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