Easter date hints in old verse about lunar phase
The text presents a playful, archaic rhyme linking Easter to the moon's cycle. It suggests Easter falls on the Sunday after a full moon, with the timing varying by year and lunar heights.
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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Apr 17, 1924
Page
3
Good Friday Reflection on Christ Birth Death and Resurrection
The passage discusses three key Christian events birth death and resurrection as the core of Christ’s influence on individuals and governments. It emphasizes Good Friday as the greatest sacrifice and treats the day as a holy observance rather than a holiday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Individu
Shadowed statesman and a clever club misdirection
An anecdote recalls Gladstone dodging police guards and using disguise at a club to escape surveillance. A tale contrasts this with a schoolboy and a puppy, a teacher and a bedbug, then ends with a lawyer’s ledger line about advising to put property in a wife’s name and a denied fee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gladstone
Timas
Che
Hila
Tble
Scotland Yard
Frontier Boy Finds Mothers Image on Old Trade Card
Tom Lowry, a nineteen year old frontier drifter, discovers a painted ivory portrait of a mother on a discarded card along the Yellow River. He shelters the image and later learns its value when Raymond Runnels, a refined youth, helps him. Raymond promises support and a path to a better life, offering friendship and a sense of family to the emotionally scarred Tom.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Uga
Northern Pacific Railway
Rocklea
Hla
Tom Lowry
Progrean
Carrina
David
Adullam
Tim
Jake Bolder
Camblination
Tom
Harper
Trug
Jake
Ufe
Atill
Pike City
Omar
Mike
Syos Buhuing
Mate
Buy
Lila
Pend
Jim Holstrom
Tom Kanter’s Vow Amid Tearful Farewell
A tall young man named Tom Kanter bids farewell as a Kravdn figure places a bond upon him in a heavenward scene. The speaker, Tom, smiles through tears and recalls learning to dive from his mother, vowing never to forget the guidance she gave.
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Tha Kravdn
Tom
Shouk
Tom Anawerd
Easter Dusk and Winter Wind Echo a Legal Exchange
Fragmentary text with hints of spring and winter contrasts. A lawyer asks for the whole truth in a courtroom dialogue where a prisoner reveals a hidden money stash and defends himself. The piece blends seasonal imagery with a tense interrogation and fragmented speech.
Early to 80w Early to Harvest in Vegetable Planting
Early sowing and transplanting can boost yields for heat loving crops like beans cucumbers melons peppers eggplants and corn. Hardened tomato plants and early melon starts accelerate harvests while early potato sprouting promises earlier crops even after frost. W. T. Macoun Demthlen Horticulturist.
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Montreal
W. T. Macoun
Demthlen Horticulturtat
Get off the goggles and see the world as it is
A humorous essay warns against prejudice and snap judgments born from ignorance. It compares Canadian American stereotypes and stressed how light or insight changes views. The piece urges shedding biased lenses, noting people misread others and the world often looks different from reality.
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Quebec
Toronto
Hamilton
States
Canada
Hocatge
Carlyle
Mindowg
Kentucky
Easter Risen in the Village of Usthung
An Easter reflection speaks of new life rising from winter's death. The spring imagery invokes green growth and sowers, promising immortality beyond repeated losses. The verse urges the living to faith and renewal as spring returns with joy and harvests.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ife
Urguting
Usthung
Lusarug
The Easter Flower Sermon by Nowers
The essay frames the Easter gospel through flowers as altar sowers and messengers of faith. It portrays the mower Nowers as a preacher guiding belief, with flowers embodying gradual prayer and outreach toward the divine through acts of faith.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ha Nowerm
Birds and Boxes For a Joyful Winter and Spring
The text argues birds provide enjoyment and insect control, noting winter species like Chickadees and Nuthatches help gardens. It advises offering multiple nest box styles, replacing nests yearly for second broods, and ensuring unmolested nesting to observe bird populations and attract species such as Wrens and Orioles.
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Jny
Southlands
Alven
Gumyner
Wren
W.H. Raunders
Ontaria Morticultura) Association
Monkey Wrench Mislaid Leads to Country Chat
A traveler with a broken vehicle stops at farmhouses in the Northwest and asks for a monkey wrench. A Swede farmer says no wrench is available and jokes that his brother has a cattle wrench, the rancher has a sheep wrench, and none are suitable for a monkey.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North West
Farmhotsa
Elephant Advertisers and Barnum Like Stunts in News
The article notes Barnum’s elephant plowing a Connecticut field near a railroad line and cites a farmer's question about profitability. It mentions New York contractors importing two work elephants to pull dirt carts, implying the motif of elephants used for advertisement and publicity in construction roar.
Courtroom Water Drinking Oddity Stuns Judge
A young man with straw colored mustache marches into a superior court saluting the judges, drinks sea water from a glass, and later seeks admission proofs to practice while proposing a portrait drink from a metal pitcher, provoking the judge. The episode ends with the man reciting his certificates and draining the water.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cate
Supreme Court
The Janitor How Did You Come to Lose Your Job
A garbled line from an exchanges page notes a question about job loss and an exchange between a janitor and an ex office boy with a grim remark about a grandmother's death on the same day. The legible content hints at workplace fate and personal misfortune.
Wanderer at Suburban Door Distressed by Rejection
A wanderer calls at a suburban house at dawn asking for water. The housewife, offended by the interruption, slams the door and comments that he does not appear to have ever had enough. The scene ends with the visitor leaving.
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Nollort
Gallor
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