Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 61, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 April 1898 — Feast of the Passover. [ARTICLE]

Feast of the Passover.

The great Jewish religious festival, the annual feast of the Passover, began Wednesday evening. It lasts for seven days and is an everlasting feast in commemoration of the deliverance of the race from Egyptian bondage. The main features of the ritual governing the festival are exactly as they were at the time of the exaltation of the race, and are drawn almost entirely from the laws as laid down by Moses in his narrative in Exodus. There is general observance of the rite, even among the Jews who are disinclined to cling closely to the established rites of the church. —~ ■ -.—l. Mrs. Henry Purcupile has opened up a millinery stock at her home in the residence part of the Ludd Hopkins’ building first door north of Wrights’ undertaking, and desires all of her old friends and patrons as well as others to call and see her goods and prices before purchasing, wdlm Mrs. Henry Purcupile.