Kansas Notes Parade Oddities and Oddball Local Tales
In Council Grove funerals are classed as society events while Leavenworth boasts an entertainment with a neat sum realized. Hutchinson Salvation Army gears up for a McPherson charge and a dynamite streetcar plot in Leavenworth is denounced as a dastardly attempt. Kansas debates wet and dry in municipal races as graffiti and debates swirl through Topeka Kinwood and Arkansas City. A 30 inch coal vein is reported in Jewell City and a smallpox February tally shows no deaths. A novel note: silk funding, banana culture, and a doctor’s quip about a baby’s vomiting mix with local humor and a chiding chess of current affairs.
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Easter in Paris Fifty Million Kisses Marked by Urban Frenzy
In Paris Easter leads to a playful surge of affection as 25 million kisses are exchanged in a 24 hour span. The piece notes some kissers give or receive ten to a hundred or more, with a few critics reportedly kissed up to 250 times by fashionable women, starting at midnight as Lent ends.
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Paris
Hymn Reflection on the Resurrection Theme
A devotional hymn passage exhorts readers to witness the angelic proclamation that Jesus lives, the First Begotten of the dead. It emphasizes Christ’s resurrection, victory over the grave, and the faithful's hope of eternal life and ransomed souls, with trust in the risen Lord.
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Easter Chocolate Eggs Come In Many Shapes And Finishes
Easter gifts feature chocolate eggs in varied forms from plain to richly frosted. Comic faces, rabbits in many poses, and animals with removable heads filled with candy cater to every taste and price. Rabbits may be pure chocolate, clear candy, or even silver.
Expensive and Delightful Egg Trick Idea
A lively note describes creative ways to hollow duck eggs and insert confections. By blowing out a shell end and capping with a paper flower or butterfly, a bonbon or sugarplum hides inside. The result mimics butterflies rising from eggs for a charming display.
Easter Mottos By Haster In Papercraft Chickens
The piece describes papier mache chicken shaped motto boxes from Haster. Heads lift to reveal a cap and motto inside. Shops compete in seasonal novelties as Easter gifts grow in popularity, with florists selling the most bouquets but others seek lasting keepsakes.
Easter gift ideas with decorated boxes
A charming notion for an Easter present is a papier mache or satin egg box containing small items. Suggestions include gloves, a handkerchief, a lace collar, perfume, or other dainties. Eye shaped silver boxes filled with bonbons also delight recipients.
Putnam Fadeless Dye Co Leads Large Package Dye Trade
The piece notes the scale of the package dye industry in the United States, citing the Putnam Fadeless Dye Co of Unionville Missouri as a major example. It explains that over three million packages are produced yearly and each package colors multiple pounds of goods, illustrating the industry’s vast output and capital needs.
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Mother's Gray's Sweet Powders for Chil dren
Advertisement notes Mother Gray the nurse at Children's Home New York offers a powder claimed to cure feverishness headache stomach troubles teething disorders and destroy worms. Sample free by mail. Also mentions Defiance Starch superior quality making other brands hard to sell.
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Mother Gray
Don’t Trifle With Rheumatism Cure Ad
An old advertisement promotes Matt J. Johnson’s 6088 as a quick safe and permanent cure for rheumatism without details on usage or efficacy.
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Matt J. Johnson
Red Cross Ball Blue and Defiance Starch Ad
Grocers offer Red Cross Ball Blue at 5c a package and Defiance Starch as the best quality. The ad promises superior whiteness and urges shoppers to choose the biggest and best.
Starch Sale Promises Best 16 02 Price At Ten Cents
Advertisement states when you buy Defiance starch you get the best 16 02 deal for ten cents. It claims once used, always used.
Patent Cure Ad Promises One Day Relief
An old advertisement claims a cold can be cured in one day with Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets and offers a refund if it fails. It also promotes Hamlin’s Wizard Oil as a remedy for pain, noting consumer trust from experience and price of 25 cents.
Change of Life Inspires Women to Seek Lydia Pinkham Aid
Mrs St Lamer of Los Angeles testifies to relief from change of life after five bottles of Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. The ad endorses Mrs Pinkham's advice from Lynn Mass and urges sick women to write for guidance.
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German Relief Association
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