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Newspaper
Cranbury Press
Location
Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Apr 02, 1920
Page
6
An advertisement touts Father John’s Medicine as building resisting power to fight colds and coughs removing impurities soothing breathing irritation and building strength. It guarantees it is free from alcohol and dangerous drugs and notes sixty years in use.
A Detroit Free Press poem about bonnets and hats from different eras. It contrasts a Scotsman bonnet a pink sunbonnet a boudoir bonnet and the most chic Easter day bonnet worn by Dorothea, praising the wearer’s beauty over the hat’s form or value.
The article traces the ancient Saxon worship of the goddess Bostre and their spring festival, the Day of Light, linked to Easter customs. It explains church illumination, Easter observances, and a blend of Pagan and Christian rites, including the origin of eggs and a mythical tale of Venus within a dove-hatched egg.
The piece Parallels Robert Hichens description in Century Magazine of Holy Week ceremonies at the Church of the Holy Sepulcher. It highlights the Miracle of the Holy Fire and the Easter morning procession with a blend of sensory images and Russian pilgrims.
The passage reflects on Easter as more than death ending, viewing it as a symbol of renewal for nature and spirit. It emphasizes resurrection, the ongoing life beyond loss, and Easter as the apotheosis of beauty, hope, and divine truth for Christians and the inspired.
Easter is presented as the oldest festival of the Christian church with a timeless span from Sunday to Sunday until the Eternal Sabbath dawns. The Resurrection is hailed as the greatest victory over bondage and death, unmatched by later triumphs.
Colin H. Livingstone president of the Boy Scouts of America speaks at the start of the second decade of scouting. He calls for renewed effort with a focus on advancement from Tenderfoot to Eagle and emphasizes outdoor work and the good turn as core ideals.
Three Seattle scouts Phil Keeler Forest Crosby and Harold scout undertook a 14 day 225 mile hike starting in Seattle venturing to Brinnon and Dosewallips River headwaters. They climbed Mount Constance in five and a half hours and photographed a bear cub on the Elwha trail before continuing.
A vintage advertisement touts Freezone as a quick painless remedy for hard and soft corns and calluses. It claims instant relief from pain and easy lifting of corn with fingers, sold by druggists in a small bottle for a few cents, credited to a Cincinnati genius.
A despondent former cabaret proprietor laments life’s lack of purpose after years of trying to prove sober vaudeville could outshine past drunken performances. He contemplates Cuba but deems it too late to start anew. The piece implies a discouraged mood and waning prospects.
A Broadway theater porter named Andy, a Black member, missed a lodge meeting about changing meeting rooms. He later told us he voted by peroxide, while noting he did not attend the meeting.
Maurice Och head of Swiss Boy Scouts proposes a world scout bureau in Geneva to bind scouts globally. He envisions an annual international encampment in a different country and praises American Scout organizations and their well turned out members.
An old advertisement promotes Cascarets as a gentle sleep friendly laxative. It claims biliousness headaches constipation and a coated tongue improve when using Cascarets. The copy contrasts Cascarets with harsher salts calomel and pills and notes they work while you sleep.
A salesman introduces a new combination footstool and phonograph as a solution to numb feet. The customer agrees to purchase, noting recent foot discomfort. The item is billed as a novel marvel, with light humor about time flying and renewed energy.
Daniel Carter Beard, veteran national commissioner of the Boy Scouts of America, slid on a winter ice patch in Flushing. Three sisters from a local convent offered a quip about the wicked in slippery places as Beard recovered on the sidewalk. He brushed off the mishap with his trademark humor, noting he did not know how others stay upright.
In a local discussion a less gifted community member drew mockery with remarks like I don't see how a man can be as stupid as he and live. Wahl was suggested as a jab about intellect. Eskimo children are described playing football with a bag stuffed with hair.
Hose Company No 1 of Wallington New Jersey adopts scouting plan to use existing troop as nucleus for a large boy scout organization Drills to be held in the municipal building auditorium under firefighter supervision as arrangements are made
The genuine Bayer Tablets of Aspirin bear the Bayer Cross inked for authenticity. Physicians have prescribed this aspirin for eighteen years to relieve colds headaches tooth and earache neuralgia rheumatism and general pain. Available in small tins of twelve at a few cents and in larger packages from druggists.
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