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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 15, 1925
Page
11
The passage traces Halloween's origins from Samhain and Roman rites to a Christian commemoration of departed souls. It describes festive practices, decorations, games, and host rituals, including pumpkins, crepe paper decor, ghostly tableaus, and party games like bobbing for apples in a circle.
The article describes arrival greetings by a black cat figure in a hall, with orange and black decorations. Cutouts show date and hostess details on the back. Guests are led to a wrapping area and into the Ilvine room decorated with festoon paper and large black cat figures.
Describes a variety of black cat and crepe paper decorations for a Halloween party including a hoop centerpiece, suspended globe, crepe streamers, cat cut outs with eyes and mouths, and alternate long and short fringe. Also covers cat table decorations, Jack Horner pie, cat cups, and a black cat hunt with hidden cut outs and point tally.
A party game features guests interpreting cards with cat based wordplay. Clues yield terms like Caterpillar Cataract Catty or Catab as answers, including Catapult Catastrophe and Catacomb, showing playful multilingual puns and matching cats to objects or actions.
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