27 Dec 1907
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Newspaper
Webster City Tribune
Location
Webster City, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1907
Page
1
Daniel Cleverton examines New Year customs across nations noting watch night in New England churches and gatherings. He contrasts pagan and religious symbolism, cites Dutch influence on social rituals, and describes German Sylvester pranks and the universal Profit Neujahr greeting with playful ransom.
New Year customs vary by region with ex changing gifts on New Year’s Day common in N Europe before Cromwell. In the western world Christmas absorbed gift giving except France where New Year remains the main festival with gift exchange as its centerpiece and a festive, libertine atmosphere for all ages.
In Scotland and France New Year is the main festival with Daft Days on the eve and day. Children go door to door crying Hogmanay, receiving oat cakes, cheese, and treats. Housewives prepare cakes as a sign of good omen, while some add the rhyme Trollplay.
Customs in England and Scotland share similarities with interchangeable practices. The wassail toast signals good will as bells ring out the old year and spring ritual of driving away bad spirits. Doors open at midnight, and offerings of bread money and coal appear on doorsteps to attract luck.
In a country town Russia New Year is a great children's feast. Boys fill pockets with peas and wheat and dash from house to house. They douse grudges with peas and shower wheat on friends. A horse is festooned and led to the parlor where guests receive small coin gifts. Oxen goats and hogs are paraded past the lord but not admitted. Old women bring decorated fowls as presents.
In Caesarea the Greek subjects of the sultan celebrate New Year as St Basil’s Eve. Women prepare St Basil’s cake, Rajah boys tour doors asking for alms, and households fill their pockets as the boys sing blessing songs. Festive decorations and toys fill shops as the city marks the occasion.
Goldfield Nevada reports continued efforts to block federal troop withdrawal. Mine operators plan to appeal to the president with evidence of an alleged deportation attempt by the Western Federation of Miners using rifles. Sheriff Ingalls and Captain Cox discuss maintaining order with a larger deputy force and possible ranger action awaiting legislative steps. A civil suit by the Goldfield Mine Operators Association aims to restrain miners from interfering with mine operations, to be filed on December 26.
A reflective year end meditation urging gratitude for life’s lessons and a calm welcome to 1908. It contrasts fleeting time with meaningful inner growth, urging right seeing, hopeful resolutions, and renewed faith while cherishing health happiness and kindness.
Poem reflecting on the passing of the year with nostalgic lines about joy, sorrow, weddings, friendships, and memories. It honors past events and wishes for blessings in the coming year, ending with a benediction.
President Roosevelt will not rescind the order recalling federal troops from Goldfield Nevada. Nevada officials urged state action to protect interests while federal support remains limited to the national government. Senator Nixon of Nevada says the president is unlikely to modify the withdrawal order and notes ongoing state consideration of active measures. He adds the Western Federation of Miners will not be known in Goldfield when the troubles end.
The article notes Japan observes New Year with calling on friends and giving awabi mussel shells as an emblem of frugality and warning against luxury. In China people greet with Kunghung-hi and Sin-hi while cities glow with lanterns and red mottoes. blue paper signals a death in the year.
Taggart of the Democratic National Committee issued the formal call naming July 7, 1908, in Denver, Colorado, as the convention date and location. It specifies representation: states double its senators and representatives, territories and outlying regions allotted six delegates. The invitation urges all Democratic citizens to unite for pure economical constitutional government and send delegates.
At Jacob's Creek Pennsylvania six more miners were recovered from the Darr mine, bringing total known dead to thirty nine. The missing are thought to bring the final count close to a hundred as rescuers continue work and mourners view the identified and unidentified bodies in a large tent. Nearby in London Lord Kelvin was buried at Westminster Abbey in a ceremony attended by scientists from America, the Continent, and Britain, with clergy and officials in academic dress.
The text states that a happy man has nothing to swear off and thus swears off nothing. He avoids inventing reasons to break his pledge in a few days.
Orphan Jeffrey and Alice Lane form a close bond in an orphanage as they hope for a real home. On New Year’s Day a velvet clad woman and her husband choose Alice and Jeffrey, giving them a family, a father mother and a home with a sister.
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