Anticoli Good Friday Passion Play Draws Crowds
In Anticoli Corrado near Rome and other Italian villages Good Friday processions recreate the crucifixion with a coffin carried aloft by faithful apostles. Locals, peasants, and foreign visitors watched as actors and armless villagers staged a simple Oberammergau like pageant amid hymns and plumes of reverence.
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Rome
Italy
Sicily
Anticoli Corrado
Christ
Mary
Anticoli
Judas Iscariot
Oberammergau
Maurie Sterne
Worcester
Mass
Ctors
Sugar routes bandits in Seymour lunchroom stand off
In Seymour Connecticut on April 3 Mrs Lottie Maloney a lunchroom proprietor resisted two would be bandits by throwing a bowl of sugar at them instead of complying with their demand to stick up. The intruders fled after the harmless but bold act.
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Seymour, Conn
U.P
Lottie Maloney
Presbyterian Service Concludes Tonight at Central Church
The closing pre Easter service at Central Presbyterian Church starts at 8 pm with Dr. R Thomson on Who Crucified Jesus. Tonight offers a private Elder Board meeting for those wishing church membership before Easter Sunday. Music is provided by a large choir with interpretive Passion Week focus. Dr Thomson will be at the church 8 am to 5 pm for membership discussions on Easter Sunday.
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Central Presbyterian Church
R. Thomson
Jesus
Central Church
Board of Elders
Thomson
Salmon reduces plants in Alaska fertilizer production
Salmon reduces plants in Alaska produce about 1,647,000 pounds of fertilizer yearly.
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Alaska
Shaker Colony to Move After 100 Years
Alfred Missouri town ends 1798 Shaker era as 85 residents vote to move en masse to Sabbath Day Lake joining the Shaker settlement there. Alfred Shaker village once thrived with over 300 residents before population decline.
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Alfred, Mo
U.P
Sabbath Day Lake
Alfred Shaker Village
John Cotton
Winds Uncover Ancient Village in Leelenau County
Winds sweep sands from an ancient Leelenau County village site believed to have housed Mound-builders. The dunes, covering the site for centuries, were moved by shifting winds revealing the underlying settlement.
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Traverse City
Mid
Leelenau County
America
Archaeologist Finds Stone Relics in Lake Michigan Area
Walter E. Hastings of the state conservation department photographed strong winds uncovering stone relics. He explored a 20 acre zone and uncovered weapons implements fire remains and possible log barricades. Hastings expects more artifacts to emerge as sand continues to sift.
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Lake Michigan
Walter E. Hastings
State Conservation Department
Hastings
Michigan convicts heavy readers at Jackson Prison
Jackson Michigan April prison librarian Byron Ballard notes convicts read five times as many books as free citizens. Total books drawn equal a city of 50 000 population with outdoors and convict author works ranking highest among favorites.
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Jackson
Mich
Jackson State Prison
Byron Ballard
Ballard
Wife and Husband Admit Fault After Party Return
A brief Tit-Bits item notes a wife asking her husband if he realizes what they did wrong, and the husband replies he does not know but admits it was wrong. The exchange underscores a social misstep observed after a party.
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Shaker Colony
Wright
Taylor
Polk ST
C.C. Deen
Glenrose, Texas
Deen
George P. Snyder
Glen Rose
Texas
Dr. Deen
Blackstone Hotel
Kuppenheimer
Haberdashery
Disney
Stetson
Borsalino
Oxfords
Bostonian and Freeman Oxfords
Clothiers
Polk Street
Michigan
Georgette
West Seas
Excelsior
Juvenile
Simplex
City Druc
Rexall
Sporting Goods
A. G. Spalding Sporting Goods
Naaenin Nail FY Rae
Coty
Hind
Amarillo
City Drug Store
Steffen
Phillips Milk Magnesia
Roxbury
Polk
N. Fillmore
Sth
Carolina
San Jacinto
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