Easter Music Dominates Church Services Across America
The article notes a shift from congregational singing to soloists and paid professionals in major city churches, especially at Easter. It describes orchestras, organ costs, high salaries for soloists, and the rise of large pipe organs as the centerpiece of the season, with song services often held at four in the afternoon and outdoor services growing in warmer regions.
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United States
New York
America
The First Easter Day by Stanley Waterloo
A lyrical meditation on Easter morning at the tomb. The poem contrasts the hush of Judea with the sun over Judean heights and the marvel of the empty tomb. Magdalene weeps, the stone is rolled away, and guarding angels announce fulfilled prophecy. It ends with the world rejoicing as the Easter day arrives.
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Stanley Waterloo
Heaven
Magdalene
Hood and Garfield Herbal Claims Chronicle Remedies
A compact ad style item surveys Hood's Sarsaparilla praising its blend of over twenty ingredients and warning against inferior substitutes. It touts Garfield Tea for digestion and purging impurities, plus Dr Pierce's Pleasant Pellets for stomach liver and bowels with sugar coated pellets. It also includes quotes on virtue and manners and a Baby soothing syrup by Mrs Winslow.
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Hood
Dr. Pierce
Safety reminder for Castoria use in children
Public health notice urges mothers to inspect all Castoria bottles seeking the Brands signature and assures the product has been used for over 30 years. It emphasizes Castoria as a safe remedy for infants and children and notes that children cry for Fletcher's Castoria.
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Fletcher
Jokes and Fables from Washington Herald and Success Magazine
A Washington Herald quip about frost ruining plants after a proposal in a conservatory contrasts with a Success Magazine vignette where a boy asks an old countryman if politicians kissed him as a baby. The excerpts blend humor and rural observation.
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Washington Herald
Johnnie
Success Magazine
Kidnaping talk and a widower joke from a New York DA
District Attorney J F Clarke discusses recent kidnaping cases stating kidnapers are unpopular. He tells a joke about a widower planning to remarry to a daughter who corrects his grammar with a sharp quip.
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J. F. Clarke
New York
Reasoned It Out And Found a Change In Food Put Him Right
A businessman describes how careful self examination of health led to a diet change to Grape Nuts. He says meals no longer cause heaviness or pain, digestion improves, weight returns to normal, and work becomes more enjoyable and focused. Read The Road to Wellville for more.
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Postum Co
Battle Creek
Mich
Wellville
Virgs
Physical Wreck Restored to Health by Swamp Root
Testimonial from H L Huggins of Welch Arkansas about kidney and bladder trouble. After one month use he could work and spent about ten dollars on Swamp Root, calling it a god send and recommending it to others. Certified by W A Page Justice of the Peace on September 20 1909. Bend to Dr Kilmer Co for a sample bottle and booklet. price fifty cents to one dollar, sold at drug stores.
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Dr. Kilmer & Co
Binghamton, N.Y
Gale
Indication of Wisdom in a Judge’s Wit
A judge quips that owls are called the bird of wisdom because they stay out all night and do not reveal what they see or do. The remark frames a humorous contrast between nocturnal behavior and guarded knowledge.
World’s Best Seller Cascarots Cure Claims Promoted
An advertisement touts CAS CARETS as a cure for constipation and liver torpor offering a “good health smile.” It promises quick results with a week’s treatment at 915 CASCARETS and claims to be the world’s biggest seller with millions of boxes sold monthly.
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Cascarets
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