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GREETINGS
May each sand
of time be a
happy one.
North Palmer Store
T & T Sourdough Bar
GLEN AND KATHY
May 1956
ring in a year of
ioy and achievement
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CALENDAR
OF EVENTS
! THURSDAY, DECEMBER 29
i PUBLIC MEETING, annual game
i hearing; Janies Hurley, dele
| gate Constitutional Convention,
| New high school cafeteria, 7: :30
i p.m.
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 30
S SATURDAY, DECEMBER 31
SWATCH NIGHT Service, United
| Protestant Church
I NEW YEARS EYE dance, Cen
I tral School gym, 9 p.m.
SUNDAY, JANUARY 1
[NEW YEARS DAY, Observances
in all valley churches
MONDAY, JANUARY 2
5 NEW YEARS OBSERVANCE"
TUESDAY, JANUARY 3
PALMER KIWANIS, Co-Op club
room, 12:05 p.m.
MASONIC LODGE, Carpenters’
Hall, 8 p.m.
MOOSE LODGE, Moose Hall, 8
p.m.
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 4
MAT. VALLEY CHAMBER OF
COMMERCE, Co-Op cluib room
12:05 p.m.
MAT. SPORTSMEN Club, Rec
Egyptians Pioneers
In Study of Time
The Egyptians were probably the
first to develop any “exact” meth
od of calculating time—about
4,000 B.C. they devised a “cal
endar,”
The Christian era begins on
January 1, in the middle of the
fourth year of the 194th Olympiad,
the 753rd year of the building o:
Rome and in the 4714th year of the
Julian period.
The Jewish calendar reads 5717
in relation to 1956 A.D., since ac
cording to Jewish dogma and
tradition the Creation antedated
the birth of Christ approximately
3,761 years. The Jewish calendar
was adopted during the 15th cen
tury.
Use of the notation A.D. (year
of our Lord) was inaugurated in
879 by Charles III of Geijjnany.
hall basement, 8 p.m.
PALMER B. P. O. ELKS, Elks
Hall, 8 p.m.
PALMER SCHOOL BOARD, 8
p.m.
THURSDAY, JANUARY 5
AMERICAN LEGION, Moose
Hall, 8 p.m.
MAY THE YEAR BE A HAPPY ONE
KOSLOSKY’S DEPARTMENT STORE
May all your
dreams come true
195 6
MATANUSKA VALiEY BANK
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Lincoln Proclamation
Issued on New Year’s
On New Year’s day, 1863, Presi
dent Lincoln issued a proclama
tion freeing the slaves in states
and parts of states where the peo
ple were then in rebellion,
g The areas designated were Ar
il kansas, Texas, Mississippi, Ala
Ibama, Florida, Georgia, South
| Carolina, North Carolina and large
|j parts of Louisiana and Virginia.
I Tennessee was excepted from the
| proclamation, although the Union
I armies were far from complete
g success in their task of bringing
I it under government control.
$ The Emancipation Proclamation
| did not abolish slavery. That was
| accomplished by the thirteenth
| amendment, which went into ef
5 feet Dec. 18, 1865.
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FIRST CABLE
I The first cable across the Pacific
| between San Francisco and Hono
| lulu, 2,600 miles was completed on
| January 1, 1903 and the first mes
| sage sent that same day. The
| cable was played out by the “Sil
I verton” a cable ship which de
| parted from San Francisco, Dec.
% 14, 1902 and arrived at Honolulu
| on January 1, 1903, the same day
4 the first message was sent.
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ROSE BOWL HISTORY
\ After Michigan routed Stanford
5 49-0 in the first Rose Bowl football
j; game. January 1, 1902, there was
| no football game supplement to
* the Tournament of Roses until
s 1916. Chariot races were substi
j! tuted for the gridiron spectacle in
'f 1903, proved popular for several
£ years and then lost in favor until
K 1916 when collegiate football re
£ turned as Washington State de
? feated Brown University.
As you travel through. 56, rnay
every day bring you good for
tune, good health, good cheer.
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LOVEJOY BODY SHOP
KEITH AND MARY
sm wishes
FOR THE NEW YEAR
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TEELAND’S
Season's
GREETINGS TO ALL
OUR FRIENDS
EVERYWHERE
1956
MOTOR-IN SERVICE
THE DUFFS AND THE SCOTTS
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