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Newspaper
Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Apr 14, 1900
Page
14
A deacon praises child choirs over paid groups, recounting a Sunday school chorus of 300 to 400 children, trained and singing with spirit. He recalls a Western town's journey from limited means to a renowned church choir earning over a thousand dollars in two years.
Easter games in Mexico feature the cascaroni eggs blown empty and filled with bright paper scraps mica sachet powder and tiny trinkets. Shells are decorated artistically or grotesquely with holes sealed by paper and sometimes coins gold dust or precious stones hidden inside in earlier prosperous days among Spanish grandees.
A humorous exchange from New York Weekly notes a husband who pronounces each word in multiple ways, and his wife quips that he has half a dozen dictionaries to guide his varied diction.
A florist estimates about 7,000,000 Easter lilies will be sold in the country this Eastertide. He ponders a hypothetical lily formed from all those blooms, would stand 20,000 feet tall, with a 150 foot diameter stem, weigh over 400,000 pounds, and be unwieldy to carry.
The article surveys Easter origins as a potential Saxon festival honoring Lostre, a spring rite linked to nature’s renewal. It notes hare and egg symbolism, German legends of hares laying eggs, and Easter imagery in Rome’s Pontianus cemetery frescoes showing spring as a boy figure with hare and lily. It cites Roman influence on Christian decoration and mentions Pontanias martyrs and a Pope.
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