08 Apr 1922
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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Apr 08, 1922
Page
1
The company states it has accumulated a reserve coal supply at generating stations over several months to ensure continuous light and power despite a serious fuel shortage. It emphasizes the value of dependable power to the town or city in such critical times.
In a 1910s style social item Billy Agnew, a grave young man once seen driving a taxi to fund his law studies, earns Ann Fordyce’s hand after proving his character. Polly Granville reveals Agnew’s family ties to mine fortune ruin, and two years later he joins a law firm and marries Ann, touring on their taxi-turned honeymoon.
The text describes lavish needlework in Elizabethan attire with embroidered upper garments and cap decorations, noting gold and silver threads and spangles. It highlights medieval Italian embroidery's variety and France's prominence in medieval and later ecclesiastical vestments, often surpassing England in delicacy and richness.
The article recounts Iroquois legends of how wampum began with Hiawatha spotting a lake bed strewn with shells after a crossing dilemma and ducks departed. It notes competing origins including early use of carved wood pieces and porcupine quills, then shells became standard, with finest wampum from Long Island hard clan shells.
In Manhattan’s Acropolis of America the finale-hopper is a young woman a year ahead in trends. She is a pathfinder who never stays in style, instead chasing fresh, avant garde expressions in music art dance dress and slang. Once copied she moves on to something new.
Jealousy is the ugliest human passion and root of much misery says Elinor Glyn. It arises from egotism and vanity, a fear others may possess what we desire or take what we have. Between the sexes it stems from self-preservation and race instinct, sometimes causing misery and crime yet not wholly egotistical.
The article recounts Jacques Inoudi, a self taught prodigy who solved intricate arithmetic in cafes as a child. He arrived in Paris in 1880 at age 11 and drew attention for his automatic accuracy. Broca assessed his skull noting right side development. he never contributed new mathematical advances.
Delicate blue green ferrous ferricyanide filaments rapidly form on iron wire in a 2 to 4 percent potassium ferricyanide solution with egg white or gelatin as a stabilizing colloid and a touch of salt. Filaments extend into the solution, coating the wire within half an hour, resembling blue green algae, with cobalt and nickel producing coarser, vesicular structures and twisted tubules.
Stunning scene shows a 20 by 40 foot area flooded with a soapy froth as a metal sieve delivers bubbles. Steam through the bed causes a rising cloud of large bubbles swirling around dancers in a dreamlike, fairy like display.
A religious reflection notes the Cross as the measure of sin toward God showing dishonesty malice and unclean thoughts. It asserts the Cross reveals God’s disappointment and the moral standard set by Jesus. The Bishop of London is mentioned as a figure tied to the sermon or discourse.
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