Easter Superstitions From Old England and European Folklore
Ancient beliefs on Good Friday and Easter describe ring blessing ceremonies, hot cross buns, dancing suns, lamb fortunes, new clothes talismans, and wind and fire omens. The piece links royal rites to cramp cures, sun dances, and regional customs across England Mecklenberg Sachsenbur Sachsen areas with cautionary notes on changing beliefs and a closing note on an electrified laundry device.
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Thia
England
Jeremiah
Pathros
Egypt
Christ
Scotland
Thomas Brown
Devonshire
Sussex
Mecklenburg
Sachsenbur
Thorn
Oman
Long Island Ice Sheet Shaped by Ancient Glacial Action
Geologists describe Long Island as clear evidence of an ancient continental ice sheet that deposited a thick moraine along its southern margin. The landscape features irregular humps and hollows, including Lake Ronkonkoma in a 50 foot depression, with other pits 80 to 86 feet deep and some hollows miles long. Lincoln Beachey used loops to photograph a plane crash site.
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Tates
Maralpal
Ronkonkoma
Iowa Farmers Should Focus On High Grade Draft Horses
Prof W J Kennedy Iowa State College says profit lies in breeding large, sound, high quality draft horses. Markets favor 1700 pound plus horses with strong feet and sloping shoulders. light or general purpose horses have little demand. Farmers should breed only strong, well bred mares and use top draft stallions for best profits.
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Harge
Training the Grape Vine at Beach Iowa State College
The article outlines pruning rules to improve grape quality. It emphasizes three principles: fruit grows on last season shoots, limit bears per season to thirty to sixty bunches, and keep bearing wood near the trunk. Short, mature canes are trained along trellis wires, with old wood removed and four canes left to carry the next crop.
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Iowa
Mrs Williams Long Sickness in Elkhart Ind
Elkhart Indiana resident Mrs Williams reports four years of illness with back pain and digestive issues. She credits Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and Sanative Wash for relief after four months of use and offers to publish her testimonial. The letter notes the product is made from native roots and herbs and contains no narcotics.
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Elkhart
Ind
Sap Williams
James Street
Indiana
Lydia
Pinkham
Pinkham Laboratory
Lynn
Mass
elmeOo
Not a Revengeful Man and a Mastiff Tale
A Brooklyn man proclaims he is not revengeful though his mastiff travels to Mineola in a buggy with him. After dogs attack the mastiff along the way, he returns with the dog dominating farm dogs left and right, provoking offers for his scalp from local farmers. He insists he wants his dog to have a fair show.
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Gs Brooklyn Rest Estate Deaser
Mineola
Prospect Park
Estimating Roderick Dhu By A Schoolchild
A young student of The Lady of the Lake judges the clan hero Roderick Dhu with faint praise. The fragment notes his hunting, fairness, usefulness in fighting, and claimed truthfulness.
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Roderick Dhu
Clever Wife Keeps Family Peace With Postum Beverage
A Washington woman credits Postum with ending her heart trouble and keeping harmony at home by replacing coffee. An elderly neighbor also benefits from the substitute, and the ad touts Regular and Instant Postum with pricing, claiming caffeine is absent and a light, instant preparation.
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Dlaag
Postum Co
Battle Creek
Mich
Grocarty
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