Easter Cards Spread From Germany To America In 1870
The Easter card custom began in Germany around 1850 and moved through the Netherlands France and England to America by 1870. Cards featured holy scenes and spring imagery with messages from Rev. Brooks and other verses. Easter Sunday brings the most church attendance and new clothes of the year.
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Germany
Netherlands
France
England
America
Phillip Brooks
Faith
Christ
David Slider to Conduct Choir on Easter Evening
David Slider, an Austin College senior from Comanche, will guest conduct the college A Capella choir in the Holy Week program at First Presbyterian Church Sherman. He will lead the cantata The Seven Last Words by Theodore DuBois, with the fifty-voice choir.
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David Slider
Austin College
Comanche
Slider
Theodore DuBois
Sherman
W. H. Slider
R. W. Bedford
Texas
Good Neighbor Policy at Oliver Spys Demonstrated
A community gathering at the Johnston home collected gifts for Parker whose house burned. Local and visiting residents attended with boxes of gifts while a band including Herman Hardin Rufus Goodwin Doyle Evans Bill Priddy Lewis Dearson performed 42.
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Oliver Strings
Warren Johnston
Roy Parker
Herman Hardin
Rufus Goodwin
Doyle Evans
Bill Priddy
Lewis Dearson
Gustine
Goodwin
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Neenen
Bachtlos Guttons
JRB Super Market
ABC
Clay Building Material CO
Austin
J. B. Ruth, Mer
Comanche, Texas
Census Bureau
James M. Hamilton
Fort Worth
North Dakota
South Dakota
Mississippi
Massachusetts
Rhode Island
Dakotas
West
Utah
Connecticut
Walgreen Appliance Dept
Good Neighbor Policy
Oliver Spys
Mrs. Parker
Frankie Jo Harper
Bruce Hirst
Gorman
Desdemona
Walgreen Drug Veterinary Department
Chrysler
DE Soto
Oldsmobile
Plymouth
Pontiac
Studebaker
Davis
Western Auto Associate Store
Faye B. Evans
Salvation and
Devine
H. H. Leonard
Fort Worth Hwy
Herbert H. Breonard, Evangelist
Walter Fritts
G. Gregory
van Alstyne
Perry Evans
Burnet
New Mexico
Cleve McGuire
Clovis New Mexico
Denier Comette Nylons— Service Drug Store
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