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Newspaper
Weiser Signal
Location
Weiser, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1900
Page
1
The piece compares New Year celebrations of Spanish Mexicans in California and the southwest with Acadian customs of earlier years. It notes that modern fêtes blend romance and pastoral tones with remnants of Acadian simplicity while acknowledging changes as more Americans arrived. Each village still hosts observances reflecting traditional customs.
G L Langdon muses on life in 1801 contrasting slow communication, handwork, and nascent technology with modern times. He recalls New Year customs, travel by mail, wooden ships, barter era, and the evolving nation from Maine to California, noting early statehood quests and frontier expansion.
A Thackerville man, B D Blanton, says he spent over $300 with doctors for a bunioned sore on his leg. He claims Bucklen's Arnica Salve cured it in one box, and promotes the product as a guaranteed remedy sold by RW Samre. The item sits among a New Year reflections column describing New Year noise, local customs, and a lengthy tale of the lottery of love in Spanish Mexican villages.
A fragmentary reminiscence on the end of the Nineteenth Century and the dawn of the Twentieth. The speaker, Joe Lincoln, muses on technology and progress, imagining electric svehicles, phonographs, and other wonders while awaiting the new era at midnight.
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