Holy Week in Rome Brims with Pomp and Sacred Memory
The piece savors Rome as a city of memory where imperial relics and Renaissance palaces mingle with St. Peter’s vast ritual spaces. Palm Sunday rites unfold with violet vestments and silent chants as palms are blessed and the olive branches bear fruit of devotion.
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Rome
Appian Way
Aurelian
Marcus Aurelius
Capitol
Forum
St. Peter’s
Papal City
Caesars
Temple of Mars Ultor
Caesar
Augustus
St. Peter's
Baldacchino
Apostle
Giulia
Palm Branches and Martyr Symbol at City Church Service
The article describes a church ceremony where silvery branches are distributed to worshippers as golden palm branches are carried aloft by the cardinal and canons. The branches are dipped and twisted into banners, reflecting a shift from reverent martyr symbols to triumphant standards. Dora Greenwell McChesney is noted.
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Jerusalem
Dora Greenwell
M’chesney
Easter's Industrial Side
Easter boosts local commerce as eggs clothes and toys drive consumption. The piece notes many people gain work producing Easter goods and the holiday’s economic impact rivals Christmas, despite religious concerns about business practices.
Friendship Tribute Demonstrates Contrasts In Fashion
Mrs Hitt models a Hast er bonnet while Mrs De Witt comments on the striking effect. The exchange highlights a playful interest in contrasts and style.
Quite the Reverse in a Home Scene
A domestic dialogue features Mary invited to the dining room for sweets from papa, but she declines to stay, explaining she must go upstairs to take her bitters. The exchange hints at family routines and a ritual contrast between indulgence and medicine.
Weighty Advice from a Humorous Aviation Note
A short humorous exchange about managing ballast on a hover aircraft. The first aeronaut calls for weighty advice as they begin sinking. The second suggests dropping some weight overboard to rise.
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Aeronaut—Hall
Aeronaut
Tatler
Looking Back to 1831 When America Held Back by Slavery Tools
A reflective passage contrasts early 19th century America with modern progress, noting crude farming implements, lack of industrial inventions, and limited exports. It recalls no railways, few machines, and widespread underdevelopment, imagining a nation with no wheat grown west of the Mississippi and vast frontier lands just beginning to stir.
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America
Philadelphia
Morse
John Deere
Howe
Iowa
Chicago
West
Middle West
Minnesota
Dakotas
Nebraska
Colorado
Kansas
Washington
Nevada
Idaho
Montana
New Mexico
Oregon
Utah
Arizona
Wyoming
Oklahoma
Texas
Purser Accepts Boston Auto for Vineyard Freight
A Vineyard man buys a fine automobile in Boston and has it shipped to the island. In New Bedford the purser jokes of room for the auto as another traveler also purchases one. The purser then sees the man descend the gang plank with a toy car for his son in Vineyard Haven.
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Marthas Vineyard
Boston
New Bedford
Vineyard
Vineyard Haven
Vineyard Gazette
Tattoo as Temperance Pledge in Korea
Kim Kyong Syop, once a heathen worshiper, vowed to abstain from liquor and tattooed his thumbs as a memory mark. A missionary report says he sacrificed a cow to evil spirits for three years and cleared his home of 27 devils nests before converting to Christianity and selling Scriptures in Korea.
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Kim Kyong Syop
Korea
British and Foreign Bible Society
Kim
When the Little Turk Is Sick Kis Met Fate Sayings
A Turkish child sickens and is treated with remedies from an old woman and a famed sheik. Charms of garlic alum and a Koran verse sewn in blue cloth are used along with trinkets. If the child dies, parents say kis met and resume daily life.
Plunkville Candidate Surprises Visitor with Witty Description
A visitor in Plunkville asks who the candidate is. The local reply praises a man for combining Beaconsfield and Pitt’s sterling qualities while avoiding their faults. The eccentric remark centers on Sim Piffle as armament inspector.
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Beaconsfield
Pitt
Plunkville
Sim Piffle
Arment
Truths on reliable laxatives cited for quality and safety
The advertisement extols Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna as a trusted laxative option with gentle, natural action. It claims no debilitating after effects and asserts physician approval, urging purchase only from the California Fig Syrup Co. and available at leading druggists.
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California Fig Syrup Co
Recommended His Wife by Irvin Cobb
Humorist Irvin Cobb is approached about lecturing next season. After a brief talk the proposer asks Cobb to consider the offer, and Cobb replies with a wink that his wife should do the lectures, calling her the best one he knows.
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Irvin Cobb
New York
McVeigh
Irvin
Cobb
Lyceum
Talent
Woman credits Grape-Nuts in recovery from nervous indigestion
A rich young woman recounts wasting three hundred dollars on tonics for six years of nerv ous dyspepsia. She credits Grape-Nuts for rapid improvement, gaining four pounds in the first week, and urges others to try it for relief. The testimonial notes the source is Postum Co. Battle Creek Michigan.
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Postum Co
Battle Creek
Mich
Wellville
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Old St. Peter’s
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Easter
HE Christ
Charles Eugene Banks
Galilee
Hot Airatory
Sige
Carters
ITES
Elder
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