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Newspaper
Wakefield Advocate
Location
Wakefield, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1923
Page
14
A New Year verse from Horatio Nelson Powers in the St. Louis Globe-Democrat promises a year of unharvested fruits and untraveled paths. It imagines a garden of beauty and growth with gifts, knowledge, love, and divine joy guiding future deeds and friendships.
An editorial essay likens end of year stocktaking to turning over a new leaf in life. It urges evaluating past habits, learning from mistakes, and setting resolutions to improve conduct, using the merchant’s ledger as a metaphor and noting the growth cycle of trees as a parallel.
Sol Sample a wary clerk in a fashionable store becomes a neighborhood hero after foiling a robber. His swift action leads to promotion to factory work and a partnership, with his name eventually on the business sign as Solomon Sample. The tale frames New Year resolve turning into a gold leaf outcome.
A vast glacier near Cooke City Montana northeast of Yellowstone contains thousands of ice layers laden with extinct grasshoppers. The layers alternate light and dark from yearly snowfalls after insect flights ceased, forming a unique natural spectacle at about 11 500 feet elevation. The glacier remains one mile wide and over half a mile long with unknown depth.
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