1500
Cleveland Morning Leader, 4 January 1864
(12 inches)
~ See original
p.4, col.4
~ View at ChronAm
1500 - L. Jan. 4:4/4 - The customary newspaper carriers' New Year's greeting
to patrons, which is usually composed in verse by one of the staff, and for
which the carriers receive tips, was as follows:
"To the long vista of the lengthening past
Old Time has added, now, another stride;
Another year, whose full-fraught days have raised
A glorious gnomon, which as ages glide
Down their smooth pathway, shall forever throw
Across the track by which the world moves on
A radiant glory, whose bright mark shall win,
From the pale student of the days to come
As pours he, over the story of our time;
Such words of praise of great and noble deeds
Done for a country or for human weal,
Bave ever won...." (12)