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Newspaper
Vernal Express
Location
Vernal, Utah, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1907
Page
9
In a wealthy bachelor’s flat on New Year’s Eve the bachelor and Dan Cupid review a year of romance. The bachelor recounts January through May heartbreaks with Eleanor Jessica Isabel and others, vows to stop Cupid’s darts, and burns the year’s record before welcoming the New Year.
New Year observance in early America mixed religious ritual with social customs. Watch night services and multiple sermons marked New Year events, while clubs and homes hosted gatherings to honor the old year. Dutch influences preserved calling and gift exchanges, with superstitions about initials and luck shaping the era.
In German cities especially Berlin, Sylvester’s Nacht features crowds smashing tall silk hats from unwary wearers. Victims hear Hut ab and must answer Meister after losing their hat in a New Year custom rooted in 1848 riots. Profit Neujal is a broader greeting of the celebration.
The piece compares New Year gift customs from Northern Europe to Christmas grafts in the Western world, noting France as a striking exception where New Year remains the main festival. It links French practice to Druids Romans and Christians and highlights homage to women, liberty for slaves, and festive freedom for children as integral parts of the celebration.
Reading notes describe Scottish Hogmanay customs with door to door visits for oat cakes and fruit and the daft days around New Year. Russia’s New Year features peasant gifts of peas and wheat, a decorated horse, and visiting livestock and fowl to noble households.
The passage describes local wassailing customs in England and Scotland, including songs, greetings, and rituals at midnight on New Year’s Eve. It notes actions like singing, opening doors to banish spirits, and leaving tokens on doorsteps, with variations in regional practices.
Turkish New Year customs in Caesarea honor St Basil born there as residents prepare St Basils cake. Boys roam the city on New Year Eve asking for offerings and blessing, while households open doors grant money fruit and cake as songs are sung.
In Japan New Year customs center on settling debts and visiting friends, while China notes street greetings and warnings against luxury. Cities glow with lanterns, artificial flowers, and red mottoes, with blue paper signaling a death during the year.
A reflection on true contentment where a man needs no vows or excuses to prove his happiness. Flo contemplates the idea that keeping or breaking pledges is irrelevant when balance and simplicity define a life free of want.
In reflective verse the speaker bids restraint from greed and materialism at year’s end. He hopes for reverence for humble life, kindness to all, and a New Year dawns with renewed humanity, invoking timeless images and prayers.
The passage argues against pessimism on New Year’s Day and urges forming hopeful, unselfish resolutions. It notes happiness comes from within and from supporting loved ones, urging silent resolve, consistent effort, and self-improvement to reach real joy in the coming year.
The narrator criticizes Miss Bradden’s drama for a fragmentary scene where a child is kidnapped and not recovered. The audience’s reaction turns to laughter as a spectator questions the unresolved plot, highlighting the work’s weak construction.
In Tunis a man choosing a second wife brings bracelets and anklets from another woman’s home to the prospective bride. The ornaments are placed on her and she is expected to fatten for months until she fills them. if not, the man may reject her. Fat equals beauty in Tunis culture, favoring a fuller figure for marriage.
The article surveys how civilizations fixed New Year’s Day on varied dates from ancient Egypt’s Nile overflow to India’s Ganges cycle and Rome’s March 1. It notes Jewish calendars with multiple beginnings and Russian use of the old calendar, highlighting diverse cultural timekeeping.
An X ray study by KR Dubois reveals a pearl inside a pearl bearing mussel shell. The paper, presented to the Comptes Rendus of the Biological Society of Paris, notes a similar radiograph by Auguste Lumière shown at the 1906 Colonial Exhibition in Marseilles.
Dialogue from a domestic scene where a child asks who won the party. The mother affirms the child and asks a playful question about who won most, yielding a gentle punchline about the judge.
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