Easter Customs and the Forget-Me-Not Story
A lyrical Easter piece blends poems and a tale set in a German village. It follows a family discovering an abandoned infant, the grandfather Claudius, and a girl guiding him to nurture the child, revealing themes of charity, second chances, and piety through a village Easter hunt.
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Napoleon Bonaparte
Claudius
Frederic
Anna Maria
Father Claudius
Mary Louisa Terre
George J. Claudius
Isaac Claudius
Leipsic
Easter Customs and a Festive Nest Hunt Memory
The article recalls Easter as the queen of festivals observed worldwide with reverence. It describes a Hudson Academy Easter egg hunt featuring nests of arborsvitae and arbutus, decorated eggs, a central Easter cake, and a seating prize system. It ends with tips to color Easter eggs using cranberry juice onion skins plum juice and spinach wraps.
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Europe
Beaune
Hudson
Diana
Adies
The Living Easter Egg by Mrs Wallace
A noble peasant woman directs children to hunt Easter eggs in a spring garden. Four youngsters aged 4 to 12 scramble among gooseberry and currant bushes, trees in bloom, and more, with the youngest unearthing a speckled egg and the others finding several, amid a gentle celebration of Easter.
Frost-Proof Flowers Extend The Blooming Season
In northern states a longer outdoor bloom is possible with frost-proof varieties. The author notes hardy verbenas petunias and pansies surviving frosts into November and suggests planting frost-resistant beds to stretch color into late fall, with weekly trimming to sustain blooms.
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Rufus Choate
New England
Porkland Transcript
Selected Pigottisms and Snippets of Wit From various Papers
A collage of light quips from New Orleans Pica yune Harper's Bazar Chicago Ledger and Boston Globe includes puns on Venetian blinds cinema sin fans and candy shop chatter. It features exchanges about kisses secrets Dutch gerrl and comic misunderstandings with playful regional dialects and witty banter.
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Bronson
Peter
Sue
Stanger
Racine
Sporting Prophet
New Orleans Picayune
Boston
William
Miss Jones
Doctor
Dempsey
Burke
Chicago
Samantha
Commercial Hotel
Absalom
Beanregards
Chicago Ledger
Berkey
Boston Globe
Like to Be Humbugged and Humour of the Times
A regional column mix discusses beliefs about anatomy and medicine among Chinese, superstition in Healing practices, and a jab at humor and culture. It includes anecdotes about doctors in Shanghai, jokes about dentistry, and a verse about journalism’s coming wave from a Terre Haute Express note.
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China
West India Islands
America
Frank G. Carpenter
Shanghai
Gambrinus
Blackstone
Terre Haute
Century-Old Baltic Shipwrecks Unearthed by Revel Divers
The Pall Mall Gazette notes two 19th century ships sunk in the Gulf of Finland near Jussaro. Divers at Revel report hulls choked by seaweed, rare silver cargo not yet touched, and artifacts like apples cucumbers buckles and shoes found, with a heavy stone observed on the second vessel's deck.
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Pall Mall Gazette
Baltic
Gulf of Finland
Revel
Jussaro
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Christ
Maria Theresa
Hans
Anton
Gertrude
Leipsie
Johnny
Mrs. A. Ll. Wallace
France
Catherine di Medicis
Francis I
Cambridge
Stephen Day
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