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Newspaper
Alliance Herald
Location
Alliance, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Apr 13, 1911
Page
4
Katherine Blades argues against extravagant gifts for Easter and promotes flowers as the best festival offering. She notes yellowed symbols, embraces Easter lilies and daffodils, and urges simpler, repeat floral remembrances as lasting tokens of affection.
The piece surveys old Easter practices from England and Ireland, noting brutal and playful rites. It describes yellow garters for luck, hair brushing for love, stall of shoe buckles theft by boys, women chasing men for sixpences, lifts in chairs, and medieval plays, with monks and dancing cited as part of observances.
Rose Merrifield, famed for giving away cherished items, inspires a circle of friends to assemble a birthday box for Easter. Her selfless acts transform wary critics into ardent admirers as neighbors witness her joy in giving and a single request for a personal Easter gift.
A poet recalls seasons and faith, hearing a murmur of resurrection through winter’s sleep and spring’s return. The voice links harvest, life, and the buried Lord's rise to guide the speaker's spirit and heart.
Poetic fragment celebrating the Easter morning with bells, lilies, and soft fragrance. References to spring, youth, and a festive mood as a communal greeting.
A humorous verse by Patsy F Pullet from 1911 contrasts a hatched chick’s fate with an Easter egg wish. The playful piece imagines the chicken lamenting its shell bound life and craving release from white imprisonment into an Easter egg’s fate.
A poem describes Easter egg colors and their supposed fortunes. Violet brings friendship, pink luck, green wealth, gray happiness, blue hints at lovers, red curses marriage, white promises a match tonight, brown risks marrying elsewhere. The traveler keeps and hides the egg as a charm.
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