Curious Easter Customs Across Lands and Times
The piece recounts Easter egg traditions from France Russia and Germany, including blessing eggs for Easter breakfast in Paris, four day Russian exchanges with a “Christ is risen” greeting, and German children receiving colorful eggs. It also narrates Sir Thomas Lipton’s famous prevarnished rescue tale on a derelict Indian steamer and his later publicity triumph.
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France
Louvre
Thomas Lipton
Ceylons
Red Sea
Lipton
Sir Thomas
London
Shrewd Maine lumberman story of a near drowning
A Maine lumber operator overseeing a log jam slips into river as logs drift. A French worker quickly helps him ashore, but the boss jokes that the helper may have caused the fall by inattentiveness. The exchange ends with the lumberman retorting that the worker should mind his own business.
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Maine
M'Siear
Torun Queek
The First Maine School Moves Through Romantic Times
The early Maine schools reveal quaint beginnings as towns such as Guilford forge their first classrooms amid gossipy romantic context. Local historians note patrons and families supporting schooling despite sparse resources and logistics.
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Maine
Guil
Easter customs and rural school origins across towns
The piece recalls regional Easter rituals in Brisse with egg dances determining marriage fate, and contrasts quirky early schooling setups in Dexter Corinth Exeter. It notes egg spells in villages and lists makeshift classrooms like a loft, a barn, and poles with boards forming improvised rooms, reflecting rustic education.
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Ford
Bennett
Dexter
Passover Fare: Unleavened Bread Baked A Week Long
The piece notes Easter parallels with Passover among Jews, describing a week of unleavened bread to remember the Exodus preparation. Orthodox households avoid any leavened products, while urban bakeries supply large quantities and Gentiles grow to enjoy the treats.
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Egypt
Wednesbury legacy grows from gowns to coats
A sixteenth century Wednesbury resident left 1000 to provide three gowns and three coats on St Thomas day for parish indigents. Land invested in minerals now valued at 30000. Charity commissioners now distribute 200 gowns and sixty coats.
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Wednesbury
England
St. Thomas
Simple Castor Oil Intake Method From Medical News
A straightforward castor oil regimen is described to avoid nausea. Instruct the patient to rinse the mouth with hot water, swallow a small amount, tilt the head to guide the oil down, then rinse the mouth again with hot water. The initial rinse cleanses the mouth and warms the membranes so the oil does not stick, allowing easy passage.
Typographical Union to Erect Monument at Colorado Springs
The International Typographical union plans a monument at Colorado Springs for the late Amos J. Cummings. Elizabeth Adams of Quincy Massachusetts daughter of the second US president is 05 years old. Ki Lung a wealthy Chinese Indianapolis merchant leads the Chinese masons in the country. Roosevelt's Strenuous Life being translated into Armenian for Armenia. James Franklin Houghton died recently in California. He surveyed the California Nevada boundary. Twelve Yale students over 6 feet 1 inch eligible for Brobdingnag club.
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International Typographical Union
Colorado Springs
Amos J. Cummings
Elizabeth C. Adams
Quincy, Mass
United States
Ki. Lung
Indianapolis
Roosevelt
Armenia
James Franklin Houghton
California
Nevada
Yale
Brobdingnags
Irish Watchman Keeps Job After Firing
In a Philadelphia Ledger note a city factory watchman, an Irish man, was told to fetch his money after dismissal. A week later the supervisor returned to find him still on duty. The man quips that he stayed because he had a good boss, and remains employed.
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Philadelphia Ledger
Various Patent Remed ies and Oddities From Central Pharmacy
A collection of early 20th century advertisements and notes. Americans in Paris buy goose liver pie hair mushrooms. Pills and tonics from Central Pharmacy promise stomach liver relief and bile balance. Piles cure with Tabler’s Buckeye Pile Ointment. Hair restorer and snow liniment advertised. Dream Vermifuge and horehound syrup marketed for health and welfare.
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Paris
Tabler
Paine's Celery Compound Prominent Doctor Profile
Prof Edward E Phelps born in Connecticut and Yale graduate rose to anatomy and surgery chair at Vermont University then lecturer at Dartmouth College. He later held a top professorship during which he made Paine's Celery Compound famous as a cure for nervous system ailments and blood impurities.
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Edward E. Phelps
Connecticut
Yale
Vermont University
Dartmouth College
Paine
Doctor
Griscoms Aphorisms Mirror Wealth and Avarice
The article cites Clement A. Griscom, shipping trust head, praising generosity yet detesting misers. An affluent young friend building a suburban mansion vents over a snowfilled cellar, and Griscom remarks the man has “snow for nothing.” He later questions a miser dying what it yields him.
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Clement A. Griscom
Shipping Trust
Mr. Griscom
Dittsburg
Canyon of the Grand Promoted as World's Scenic Route
An advertisement extols the Rio Grande Rai road as the World’s Scenic Route with winter and summer beauty. It quotes Cy Warman praising the canyon and mountains and invites readers to buy tickets, request rates and folders for travel along the line.
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Rio Grande Rairoad
Cy Warman
Canyon of the Grand
Splendid at home earnings offer from Brillian Tina Co
A recruitment ad promises easy work for women to earn spending money in their leisure time. It claims the job is not hard and asks readers to send 25 cents or a money order to Roxbury, Massachusetts, to receive cloth and full directions prepaid.
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P.O
United States
Brilliantina CO
Roxbury
Mass
Bold San Francisco purchase targets Bright's Disease cure
A group of San Francisco businessmen paid 112 thousand five hundred dollars in coin and stock for a treatment claimed to cure Bright's Disease and Diabetes. Investigations began November 15, 1900, with 87 percent of 39 test cases improving and 13 percent failing. results and reports are mailed free on request from the Joan J. Funton Company.
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San Francisco
Bright
Joan J. Funton Company
Montgomery St
Cal
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