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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jan 01, 1903
Page
3
A reflection on New Year’s Day in slaveholding South states, called hiring day, detailing slave auctions, hiring practices, markets, and social scenes. It recalls food stalls, fights, rumshops, and the yearlong contracts that bound enslaved people to employers, with later anecdotes about domestic life and a humorous misadventure of a wife and her cook.
Marcia Berrie, new mistress of Shelly Farms, plans a lavish New Year dinner to impress the neighborhood, while rivals plot to test her social reach. Mrs Goldwaite and Mrs Wilton suspect the philanthropic talk hides a wish to derail the feast.
Mrs Meigs proclaims a New Year dinner invitation from Shelly Farms as a bid to dine with the worthy poor. The region’s elite respond with scorn and plan lavish parties to observe the spectacle, until a note from John and Mrs Berrie reveals the charity ruse and a changed mood.
In a terse exchange a speaker asks to swear off today and inquires about the price of a pledge. The other party quotes twenty five cents, and a counter of five for a dollar is proposed, revealing a playful, bargaining mood.
A Baltimore Herald quip notes a joke about engagement and a promise to quit smoking. The speaker claims his fiancee has not pressed him to quit weed while their engagement has the same effect as a vow. He mentions his cigars end up crushed whenever he calls.
A man resolves to strive anew in the coming year and win more of what misers fasten to. His wife applauds and plans to reveal a few new choices to the town if his schemes succeed.
In a wry note from the Chicago Post, a man deemed highly resourceful yet lazy is praised for transferring his January 1 1902 resolutions to 1903 by pasting the page into his diary. The gag highlights frugality and procrastination in daily life.
A Chicago Tribune verse notes the city’s New Year celebration with bells and horns from midnight to three, boys and fathers joining in. It evokes communal cheer as the old year ends and the new year begins.
In a playful Town Topics tidbit, a child asks why the sofa sits mid room while the father explains the mistletoe is hung on the chandelier. The humorous domestic moment showcases holiday cheer and lighthearted family dynamics.
A playful Brooklyn Eagle item notes Johnny Jones and Willie Boerum recalling a New Year’s Eve scene. They watched a sister and her beau celebrate the old year ending and the new year beginning with spirited exchange.
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