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Newspaper
Covington Republican
Location
Covington, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 30, 1923
Page
4
Sunday School 9 45 a m Morning Worship 11 a m Sermon reception of members baptismal service Epworth League 6 09 p m Evening Worship 7 p m Sermon by pastor Music praised You are invited to worship with us on Easter day Pastor Russell B Kern.
The piece traces Easter as a spring festival from pagan Anglo Saxon roots to Christian rites, describing street games, candlesticks and the Pascal Candle, and noting how many rites persisted as festivity even as symbolic meanings faded with time. It references egg rolling, sun symbolism, and the transformation of pre Christian merriment into religious celebration.
The piece recounts early Christian disputes over Easter timing, council at Nicea 225 establishing Sunday observance after the vernal full moon, and Alexandria's role. It notes related customs such as eggs and symbols, festive practices across nations, and medieval rites like blessing foods and Easter observances guiding post season church entry.
The piece traces Easter from ancient licentious rites to a church holiday. It notes early Christians did not observe festivals, and Easter became the largest church festival over time. St Chrysostom is cited on time as a festival because of gifts from God. Excommunication awaited those who refused communion.
Indianapolis detectives found Charles W. Miller dead in a Hotel English room after a report of him being missing. Coroner says he killed himself by cutting his throat and ingesting poison. Friends cite nervous breakdown from overwork.
The article explains the meticulous process used to locate and prepare fossil bones. Expeditions search vast areas, remove tons of sand with care, and reveal brittle bones with delicate brushes. After discovery, bones are coated, bathed, wrapped, boxed, and cushioned for shipment to preserve them.
A young Indiana school principal faces debt and seeks a moral loan from the oldest teacher. The principal’s wife and mayor’s wife pass by. the wife snubs the teacher, but the elder teacher signs the note, choosing loyalty to a friend over spousal alignment.
A Marion county public official who has long been active in politics married recently and began a southern honeymoon. The couple’s Florida visit included a hotel stop where the groom realized he had not yet added his wife to the register, prompting him to amend his name to include “and wife.”
Tangier Morocco is among the first cities outside the United States to use telephones, with service established over forty years ago. The system remains largely unchanged, operating on a single-wire earth return. Although each of the 600 subscribers has two numbers, callers usually ask for the party directly by name. A new system with a modern common battery switchboard and instruments is being installed.
An English newspaper notes a letter containing a certification of Gerone Province public accounts reached its destination after sixty six years and eight months. Spanish minister of finances M. Bergamin announced he had just received the missive addressed to a director general of accounts removed February 1, 1866. The letter stated provincial treasury funds.
Five year old Charles spends a vacation at the lake with his parents. A night wind stirs the lake producing white caps and he rushes to tell his mother that someone had scattered paper across the water last night.
The Loyal Women class of West Liberty Christian Church mourns the loss of Maude Sutter. The class certificate will be draped for 30 days and copies sent to county papers and the bereaved family.
Funeral services for Jerry Haas were held at the Christian church in Wingate, with burial in Newtown cemetery. Haas, born in Fountain County in 1842, died suddenly at his home near Newtown. He was a leading Richland township farmer and is survived by two sons, two step sons, two sisters, a brother, and his widow.
An Abbottstown based advertisement extols Chamberlain's Cough Remedy as the best for coughs and colds. Edward P. Miller of Abbotts town quotes many users praising the product, claiming satisfaction with no substitutes and noting its effectiveness in easing coughing and chest congestion.
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