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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1895
Page
4
A reflective poem from Warren PA dated December 26 1896 laments a year’s passage and a parting guest who grew old and failed hopes with lines about parting, memory, and rising yearnings. The speaker and guest fade as time moves toward the silent sea and divine love.
Muriel Vane plans a New Year gathering against her mother Mrs. Vane’s orders. Muriel defies control, prepares a lavish celebration with cake, coffee, and a new dress, and visits Aunt Dora at White Reefs lighthouse to seek a quilt pattern. She harbors hope for Paul Clifton’s arrival while facing a future with Squire Sedley.
Muriel confronts Aunt Dora and Mrs Vane at the lighthouse as her plan to marry Paul Clifton unfolds. After lingering under restraint, she is rescued by Clifton in a boat and declares independence by marrying him. The two return home married, while Aunt Dora and Mrs Vane admit defeat and accept the outcome.
The Independent notes Scotch poor children in small towns beg on New Year’s Eve for oat bread and cheese, chanting Hogamanay and related rhymes from Chambers and Brand. They carry oatcakes in deep bag-like sheets, forming a striking procession through streets and lanes.
A grandmother looks in on her family gathered by the hearth as she laments cold, hunger, and ale yet blesses the season with gratitude. The verse blends rustic appetite with festive prayer and a calm, homely mood.
A survey of customs and beliefs across Europe and England about the twelve days from Christmas to New Year as indicators of the coming year's weather. Traditions from Sanscrit, German, English, Greek, and Romanian sources describe omens, portents, and rituals tied to January days and New Year celebrations.
The New Year belief in Wales holds that seeing one's shadow in moonlight on New Year’s Eve foretells death within the coming year. An unmarried woman seeing her reflection in water on New Year’s Eve is said to doom her to lifelong singledom.
A Youth's Companion verse extols 365 gifts of kindness and sunshine as more valuable than playthings or money, urging Annes to fill each day with positive deeds and goodwill.
The Philadelphia Times notes New Year’s Day 1790 when President Washington, in his first term, appeared among New York City traders and craftsmen at the Franklin House on Cherry Street. The city then numbered about 1,400 houses and 20,000 people, mostly artisans. Washington had lived quietly there for months as locals, previously wary of his stature, now visited him in festive dress.
The item lists various superstitions including a red haired person signaling a dull business day, a cross eyed visitor at New Year predicting bad luck, a cross eyed observer during trade foretelling unprofitable bargains, and a cricket chirp signaling good luck as a welcome sound for farmers.
A Christian Work meditation on the sun's southern solstice and the return north urging mankind to pause for reflection. It speaks of gathering wisdom from vanished months and forecasting future signs as a new epoch begins in human affairs.
Describes the March Choola Sakarat festival in Bangkok era, detailing beliefs in spirits, protective rituals, and offerings. Brahmin astrolo ger signals the full moon while families seal doors with sacred thread, placate ghosts with a pig head and arrack, and the royal palace weaves seven fiber cotton balls for protection, ending with temple visits and gifts to priests.
The text notes various English New Year traditions. Families drink spiced ale from a wassail bowl and sing a blessing. Poorer folk beg for ale and ribbons. Some areas sweep out the old year with blackened faces and sweeps, or burn it with bonfires. Bells may ring after midnight.
Maud Booth pens a thoughtful 1896 New Year greeting urging readers to spend the year in selflessness and sympathy. She calls for acts of kindness toward others, so happiness returns to the giver.
The quote contrasts endless repetition of time with true renewal tied to personal progress. Josiah Strong argues that changing times alone do not bring a New Year. rather, only our own advancement and improved character create genuine renewal.
The passage urges the new year to be marked by growing noble ideas reflecting the Holy Child’s teachings. It calls for freedom, truth, and improvement in public and private life, to imitate and obey the Child’s spirit for a blessed future.
A wary tramp asks a sharp visaged woman at her door for work and ends up requesting a piece of pie and a cup of coffee after the brief exchange. The exchange appears in the Pittsburgh Chronicle Telegraph.
The Omaha Bee tells of Frank arriving soaked and explaining he fell into the canal. His father laments the ruined trousers yet the tale shows a rare truthful excuse that passes muster.
Mrs Cumso recalls a butcher in Indiana who killed a cow and found a hairpins a thimble five screws and a twenty dollar gold piece in its stomach. Mr Cumso notes it confirms his Uncle Jims old joke that there is money in cows.
Bay City Chat notes an artist learns to blend colors despite distractions. The painter mentions three babies playing in the studio, creating bizarre effects with his paints and brushes.
An old time advertisement promotes Hatch's Universal Cough Syrup with a money back guarantee. Sold by Morris & Mullen, the copy stresses honesty and customer satisfaction in the sale.
The article describes nervous strain from modern life and its effects on young and middle aged men, including irritability, backache, dizziness, and memory issues. It notes the Invalids' Hotel and Surgical Institute offers treatment and a 168 page book on home remedies, mailed for 10 cents postage from World’s Dispensary Medical Association, 663 Main Street, Buffalo, NY.
The piece recalls a once common New England custom of watch night services. Sleigh bells ring as cutters and sleighs arrive at crowded churches. Inside, heated rooms glow as Christmas decorations stay, hymns rise in solemn tone, and prayers and dirge like anthems mark the night.
The New York World reports that in Welsh belief the tylwyth teg or fair folk hold great power on New Year Eve. Mothers who offend them may lose their children to a substitute called a plenty neuid, a dangling infant that becomes a frightful, diminished child in time.
On New Year's Eve in Japan beans are tossed indoors to drive away spirits while merchants rush to settle debts. End of year sales offer cheap goods for cash as people seek ready money. Street vendors chant soba for their young customers and create figures of devils gods and animals from the paste.
The piece notes French Canadian New Year rituals in Quebec and among Quebec people in New England, with a father seeking blessing from his child by the hearth. It also describes Welsh households consulting the family Bible at dawn to glimpse the coming year's fortune based on the first verse seen.
A reflection on New Year bells and a passage about Japan’s unique birthday rule. The Japanese count age from New Year’s Day, making a child born near the date considered one year old on that day.
A brief reflection from the Kearney Journal urges nurturing love and charity in the heart to harmonize with the choir’s final New Year song. It frames such kindness as proof of character, suggesting moral improvement through communal music.
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