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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Apr 06, 1927
Page
10
The article surveys legends about the Master egg and Easter origins from Roman, Persian, and German tales. It notes Romans held races at Easter called one gates and awarded eggs, while Persian myths tell of two brothers creating eggs that held good and evil. The piece links egg symbolism to resurrection and new life in Christian tradition.
Poem fragment praising Easter and nature with instruction to pastors to use God given craft. It quotes Charles Kingsley and emphasizes spring, birdsong, and a divine chorus. Focuses on resurrection imagery and pastoral tribute through song.
An old Lincolnshire rite, practiced about two centuries ago in Glentham, involved seven spinsters bearing water to wash a stone female effigy known as Molly Grime. The seven women, described as old maids, were rewarded with a shilling as they carried water from Welwall Well to the church precincts.
The article praises faster as the key milestone in human progress, describing its role in reviving nature and sustaining the human spirit. It envisions a new heaven and earth, appealing to pietists, naturalists, scientists, and spiritual seekers, and linking material universal progress with elevation toward God.
Florida’s peninsula shows land pushed up by the sea with reefs formed by shellfish and mangroves catching sand. Lakes may replace land as the sea both builds and erodes, with about 100 lakes in DeLand district not present sixty years ago. Scientists note Earth’s surface changes, water as main agent, and lakes enriching Ocala area scenery.
Mace Fortune, who built wealth by buying scrap iron from ammunition dumps left by Allied armies after the armistice, paid off debts with installments and profited greatly. He, with his son as partner, hired thousands of laborers and claimed control over a war zone, even issuing his own currency in a world of his making.
The Tomlinville Torch of Liberty and Toesin of the Tints editors scold a man named Hunk Butters when Gap Johnson questions his companion. The tale hints the man is exhausted from chasing a pack of hounds that roam for days, returning starved and haunted.
A woman leaving for a week asked a neighbor to feed her cat using a cold puffed potato cut into seven pieces as the only food. The cat supposedly ate one piece per day, but the potato ends up in the garbage while the cat enjoys seven days of meals.
A public spirited gift funds Wildlife therapy at Little Wuelusett Mountain near Princeton. The donation by oo Bagton warn supports conservation aims and benefits local citizens through enhanced access and preservation efforts. State department of conservation announces the gift and its intended impact on community welfare and environmental stewardship.
The Ladies Missionary Society held an all day sewing session for overseas hospital work at the home of Mrs. Caroline Alden with hostesses including Mrs. Alden and Mrs. W. Mildebreand. Other notes mention parish visits, illness, upcoming congregation supper on April 12, and local social activity in Brush Valley and surrounding towns.
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