Easter fashion parade across America preserves a spring rite
The piece outlines how Easter fashion parades remained a dominant American tradition with women leading the display of new dress and millinery. It notes male participation in spring coats and ties, cites parades in New York and Atlantic City, and explains Paris-origin ideas fueling the seasonal wardrobe, with peak displays after church services around noon.
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Feshion
Euster
Clese
Miledy
United States
Daughters of the Republic
Fifth Avenue
New York
Atlantic City
Maine
California
Michigan
Texas
Paris
America
Easter Message and Fashion Parades Across Easter Sunday
The piece blends Rev. Hugh T. Stevenson’s Easter sermon on the resurrection with observations on Easter fashion parades in cities. It highlights faith themes of renewal and evangelism alongside Atlantic City and national capital fashion walks, noting crowds, venues, and the contrast between church attendance and after-church promenade displays.
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Jerusalem
Bethany
Christendom
Christ
Jesus
Hugh T. Stevenson
Man with half a brain recovers in Stockholm sanitarium
Blomquist a young soldier wounded by a stray bullet at firing practice last summer in Sweden's Sabbatberg sanitarium convalescent home. After two weeks unconscious he slowly regained consciousness and now shows improved health though cannot read or write. He can distinguish letters but cannot form words due to loss of brain area tied to memory.
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Sabbatberg Sanitarium
Stockholm
Sweden
Blomquist
Spinster Ethel Plans Exacting Toe
Fragmentary note voices excitement over concealment and a plan involving an ankle or toe. The lines hint at personal intention and a playful tone from a speaker tied to a social circle.
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Ethel
Lydia Pinkham Remedy Endorsed by Readers in Virginia
A Virginia reader lauds Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for back and nerve pain and sleeplessness, praising its health benefits and urging other women to try it. Advertisements tout the medicine as a long trusted remedy from Lynn Mass and emphasize confidentiality of letters.
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Odd
Lydia E. Pinkham
Mar L. Hottoway
Cold
Lydia E
Lydia BE
Pinkham
Lynn
Mass
Wong
Truths and temptations in a playful office tale
A grizzled clerk questions a young office boy who clung to a falsehood. The boy’s steadfast origin pride and mischief expose a moral lesson about truthfulness and consequences in the workplace.
Have you got all of your hairs this evening
Mrs Hem Peck jokes about Hanky Henry hosting guests and appearing as an honorary pallbearer with humor amid company. Henry shyly asks if he has all his hairs, prompting chuckles during the Boston Globe item.
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Jesus Christ
Christ
Jesus
Peter
Henry
Hem Peck
Mary
Peck
Boston Globe
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