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Newspaper
Bowen Weekly Chronicle
Location
Bowen, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Apr 12, 1900
Page
3
A nostalgic verse celebrates Easter bells echoing Peace and Love across sea and land. George Cooper author of the piece in Golden Days evokes springtime awakening, kindness, and harmony dispelling gloom and conflict.
Martha Dewey yearns for pretty things as Lon Dewey profits from wheat. An Easter invitation and a generous Bonney family offer a glimpse of brighter life through church, flowers, and a new carpet. Dewey finds unexpected uplift in the chance for beauty and community beyond daily drudgery.
Clifford Howard writes in the Ladies' Home Journal about Easter Monday egg rolling at the Washington White House grounds. Children roll eggs on grassy mounds and play egg picking games, with groups forming and a goose or turkey egg winner earning respect. A curious market scene shows an earnest buyer seeking an Easter hen to produce fresh eggs.
A light exchange shows a salesman promising strictly fresh Easter eggs, asserting the hens lay only fresh eggs and the customer asks if they are truly fresh.
London dispatches describe repeated Boer successes and British setbacks. Reports claim telegraph cuts, cavalry losses, and failed British attempts to trap Boer leaders at Reitfontein. Mafeking remains besieged while Boers press Natal operations and Basuto sentiment grows unsettled.
Fragmentary line notes a redirection from dull labor to renewed vigor as Martha grows young again, signaling a shift in tone for the Chicago Standard and reflecting a broader lifestyle reform sentiment.
Early Easter in Russia is a day of vigil and devotion in the morning followed by a lively public observance after ten. New Year greetings appear in the streets with couples kissing and exchanging well wishes as people dress festively and share jovial interactions.
Jeannie and Cecile discuss hair and what one would give to have hair like nine. Tit-Bits provides a fragment of a playful exchange with implied humor.
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