The Flowers of Easter Day Joy and bloom in the city
In a city vignette a carnival of Easter flowers unfolds. Florists flood shop windows with violets, roses, and lilies as department stores expand greenhouses. Grounded in custom, the Easter lily outshines others while churches deck doors with palms and blooms amid spring’s awakening.
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Ips
Eo Yaster
Hamiey
Dane
Ophelia
Japan
Ini Oy
Flora
Ryce
Aystus
Oder
Phyllis
Narcissus
Smiumcix
Allie
Old Easter Pictures and Christ in Medieval Art
A fragmented discussion notes how church authorities influenced selecting types for Easter pictures. It highlights Christian depictions of Christ in majesty and as ruler, referencing medieval painters and the idea of Christ as the ideal man.
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Jovek Church
Chris Hs
Big
Christ
Christ Io da Vinci
Hidden Verse Fragments From a Distant Poem
Fragmentary OCR yields a lyric scene with hints of longing and vast journeys. The lines evoke distant seas and a hidden yearning, mentioning a Taillion Jampa in the blue and a single true love, with archaic wording and unfinished phrasing.
Easter Sermon and Choir Thoughts Amid Seasonal Hope
A fragmented reading blends a two minute Easter sermon with musings on Easter meaning. It contrasts eternal life with life abundant in the season and notes how Easter reshapes world views and religious practice. The text also touches on church choirs, boy singers, and the economics of youth vocal work.
Oldest Christ portrait traced from catacombs to Roman era
A long discussion traces depictions of Christ from a second century fresco in the Catacombs on the Via Appia Rome to later statues and icons in Athens and medieval Europe. It notes changing facial types from youthful to bearded, the use of symbols like the fish, and a legendary description attributed to Lentulus, a Roman official.
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Josiah
Christ
Via
Appia
Rome
Athens
Catacombs
Jerusalem
Lentulus
Pilates
In the Loft With The Choir Boys
A 19th century interview reveals how choir boys start in a preparatory class, learn rudiments, and sing notes before joining a paid choir. It describes their mischievous but productive behavior, typical career length of four to five years, and the progression from preparatory to paid roles.
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Trebig
Seldeam
The Notes of a Song in Elaine Wells’s Drawing Room
Elaine Goodwin sings a love song in her mother’s drawing room. A crash from a guest unsettles her as a stranger is drawn to her by the tune. Elaine, aging nineteen, learns she will be known as Miss Wells, while a musician hidden within the notes of the piece admires her.
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Elaine Goodwin
Faibe Guesis
Tase
Sele
Blaine
Vivado
Ely
Monsieur Herron
Elaine
Wells
Miss Wells
Dir. Goodwin
Tiny
Elaine Little
Signor Learns a Song Through Patient Practice
A teacher and pupil practice a song over weeks. Elaine, Blaine, and a professor share walks and talk as the song nears unlearned perfection. The poem concludes with lines about overcoming hurdles and finding a way through life.
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Ektina
Blaine
Flaine
Nowse
Ali Ise
Vital Spot Targeted by Prizefighter Advice
An article extols the vital spot as the key to knockout power in boxing, citing Pitzsimmons against Corbett. It promotes Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery for stomach, blood, and nerve issues, with testimonial claims of curing consumption and other ailments. It also advertises Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets for constipation and biliousness.
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Pitzsimmons
Corbett
Pierce
Golden Medical Discovery
Dr. Pierce
Mfr. J. W
Pri Monroe Co
Olig
Golden Medical
Tiscovery
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Phillips Brooks
Brooks
Edward Everet Hite
Wickenmeiss
Hischievens
Lillie
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Rover
Will Fogarty
Courebe
Rick
Glenn
Ah ‘Paben
Grine
Sheriffs Sale
H. Cheyney
S. Samuel Pickering
Court of Common Pleas
Athens County
Ohio
Towit
Ailey
Harn Ag
William Shirer
Shaf
Shafer
Samuel Pickering
James Murphy
Val. S
State of Ohio
Canaan Township
Srcilan No
James T
Margaret A. Sheridan
Lovina Lave
Cc. H. Porter
Sherig
SF. Heners
Enaty Sheriff Jewert & Wot Plift
Tanesville Business College
Lanesville
Wilbur
Wilburs
Ferg
Pater
Milwaskee
Wis
J S. Basom
OBIO
Puwale Block
South Court
W.E. Peters
Attorney At Law
Athens, Ohio
Bank of Athens
United
Brown ‘ Presidents
Rabria, Gaskiar
Price & Stalder
Atehiedms
CFIC
Dewitt
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