Furnes Passion Play Marking Annual Penitence in Belgium
The Belgian town of Furnes hosts its penitential procession on the last Sunday of July, the 248th such event, with Gothic churches, flags, and a crowd of townsfolk and visitors watching forty groups enact the Passion. After absolution in St. Walburgis, revelry and dancing follow as the festival shifts from sacred to worldly pleasures. The piece ends with a dull note on elephants in swamps and their struggle to lift themselves with trunk aided by straw and vegetation.
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Furnes
Veurne
Flanders
St. Walburgis
Gensdarmes
Christ
Jerusalem
Simon
Cyrene
Special train to Pittsburg built for contractor Keenan
A Philadelphia railroad contractor D. T. Keenan ordered a 346 dollar special from Camden station to Pittsburg to meet a connection, leaving at midnight and arriving about 8 am. The order was placed after the agent learned no regular train would suit, and the run was completed on time.
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Baltimore Sun
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Passion Play Rendered by Belgian Townsfolk
A yearly event presents The Life and Sufferings of the Nazarene portrayed with religious earnestness by honest Belgian townsfolk, though critics note strange incongruity in the performance.
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Nazarene
Nature Forces a Man to Feel His Own Weight
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Distinction Dr Taft notes between male and female drinking habits
Dr Lawson Taft asserts a clear difference in drinking behavior between men and women. He observes men drink openly in social settings while women do not, claiming he has never seen a woman get perceptibly the worse for liquor.
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Lawson Taft
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