Easter and April Fools clash in Young America’s dilemma
Elmo Scott Watson notes Easter Sunday falls with April Fools on April 1 about every 11 years. He traces Easter origins from pagan spring rites to the Christian resurrection, explains lunar calculations fix the date, and highlights the coinciding 1945 occurrence.
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Elmo Scott Watson
America
Persia
Aries
India
Europe
Neptune
Astarte
Isis
Diana
Ehostre
Haster
Eostre
Edst
Israel
Alexandria
Egypt
Italy
Victorius
Acquitaine
Britain
Rome
Whitby
Yorkshire
British Isles
Union
How to Employ the New Leisure
A discussion on the arrival of shortened work hours and the New Leisure. The piece weighs potential outcomes from loafing to productive use of time, urging thoughtful choices in home life, recreation, study, and community work to avoid unworthy idleness.
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Jessure
Bell Syndicate
WNU Service
Wingless Birds of Madagascar and Relics of Great Beasts
The account recalls extinct Madagascar wingless giants like the aepyornis and photorhacos, with legends of a huge roc seen by Marco Polo. It notes enormous eggs found in bogs, a two and a half foot round fossil egg, and a nine foot tall bird with a horse size head. It mentions the dodo and solitaire as victims of hunting and a live specimen once shown in London now in Oxford.
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Madagascar
Marco Polo
Nea
British Museum
South America
London
Oxford
World oil supply may last 30 centuries says Dr Gustave Egloff
Dr Gustave Egloff of Chicago claims global petroleum in known deposits and current consumption would endure for about 30 centuries. He notes the United States has 2,000,000 acres producing oil and 1,100,000,000 acres of oil land yet to be explored and developed. Your local dealer advertises Ferry's Pure Bred Vegetable Seeds at 5 cents a package.
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Gustave Egloff
Chicago
United States
Doctor Egloff
America
Ferry
Senator Sorgum Praises Radio Speech as Natural
The dialogue shows Natural praising Senator Sorgum for a radio speech. The colleague asks how it sounded and Sorgum replies it sounded natural and put him to sleep in five minutes.
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Senator Sorghum
S.S.S. tonic touted as remedy for fatigue and recovery
An advertising blurb extols S.S.S. as a tonic to boost appetite, color, and energy for indoor workers. claims it rebuilds red blood cells and supports gastric secretions and hemoglobin. It notes availability at drug stores and ends with a joke about sides to every question.
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S.S.S
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Magnesia
Lehman
Houmbaldt
Kan
Montpelier Glove Co
Montpelier, Ind
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Lord & Ames, Inc
Michigan Avenue
C. Babcock
M. D
White House
Smith
Brown
Kansas City Times
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Bayer Manufacture
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