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...Lords and Commons reassembled last week, from a generously long Easter recess, and briskly sat to business...
George Huntington Hartford, a "down-easter" born at Augusta, Me., went to Manhattan before the Civil War and there operated a modest hide and leather business from his store on Vesey street. A neighboring store keeper, one Gilman from Bridgeport, Conn., was in the spice and tea business, and in 1859 the first Hartford went to work for Gilman as store manager. Gilman soon withdrew from the business. He had a peculiarity that doubtless was most trying to Hartford. He feared death so terribly that he would endure near him no mirrors in which he might note the shriveling...
...each day of Holy Week the F. W. Woolworth stores averaged almost a $1,000,000 business. During Easter Eve clerks sold $2,408,555 worth of goods; during the whole week $6,977,268. These were records...
...first time in months, to see Criss Cross, a Fred Stone musical comedy. With him went Mrs. Frank W. Stearns of Boston, oldtime family friend. Next day Actor Fred Stone and his daughter, Dorothy, were luncheon guests at the White House. Mrs. Coolidge stayed in Northampton over Easter. Her absence was not allowed to interfere with egg-rolling on the White House lawn, annual Easter diversion of Washington's when-we-were-very-young people. In Northampton, Mrs. Coolidge had a thrilling escape when she almost stepped on a live trolley wire that fell upon the street...
...story of the enlargement of Christianity is the story of men moving, thinking things, telling things; always essentially the story of the men who went out from Jerusalem after they had seen Christ die and disappear. This Easter, almost as if the twist of centuries had reversed the lines of force around Jerusalem, the men who are carrying Christianity into the corners of the world were drawn back to Palestine. Two hundred delegates, spokesmen for powerful Christian forces in 51 countries, gathered in Jerusalem for the International Missionary Council (TIME, April...