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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Apr 10, 1915
Page
3
General Stephen M. Weld discusses bayonet use in warfare noting no verified bayonet crossings in the Civil War. He recalls a successful June 11 Wilderness campaign charge by Gould’s division, where troops advanced 200 yards under heavy fire, capturing knapsacks and equipment without bayonets crossing.
The London Standard recounts Vidocq born 1775 in Aras who started as a baker and thief before joining the army and police. He served as chief of a Paris safety brigade of reprieved convicts, earned a pardon in 1818, and later worked as a paper maker at St Maude before political detective work after 1830, dying penniless in 1857.
White, Old Rose and Blue Voile fabrics listed with Best White Linen two yards wide. Includes Irish Finish Suiting, Linen Table Cloth, Eden Cloth, Poplin Cloth, Hemmed Table Napkins, Embroidery and Embroidered Flannelette, Silk Underskirts, Muslin Underwear.
Report from St Paul Pioneer Press recounts the 1619 Jamestown assembly the first representative legislature in America. Governor Sir George Yeardley and council presided while burgesses from eleven plantations sat in the church quire. Clerks note the ceremonial seating as Bucke the minister led a prayer for guidance and God’s blessing on the colony.
A London Tit-Bits excerpt explains miners using lamp and oil flask as improvised clocks. By oil consumption and remaining light, they estimate time within minutes. If a lamp goes out, the miner must grope to the lamp cabin for aid, navigating by tram lines in pitch darkness. Earnings depend on coal weight and shifts measured in fathoms.
A reflection on dissipation beyond drunkenness describing inward moral decay from unchecked desires for wealth possessions and ambition. The speaker cites a farmer who pursued land and status, neglecting family education and home happiness, leading to ruin and self dissipation.
A discussion of fake voluntary surrenders in Japan describes several clever scam types. The “mundon” feigns innocence to obtain lenient detention, while the “eelbowl” seeks better housing by timing a capture. A “kuruma” shams confess to gain release, as a man did in Sendai and Tokyo.
A Pearson weekly summary explains healing as white blood cells moving from vessels into tissue to repair damage. Corpuscles form new tissue, deposit bone salts or nerve fibers, and contract to unite wound edges restoring structure after injuries.
In Century Magazine John D. Williams recalls Sir J M Barrie presiding at a Burns celebration but uttering no words and remaining glued to the chair. A satirical piece in a Saturday Review mocked the dumb presiding officer, later revealed to be written by Barrie himself.
A historical description details torpedo anatomy from explosive head to gyroscopic air motor guidance. It explains damp guncotton in the head, an explosive primer, compressed air boiler chamber, a four cylinder engine, gyro control of rudders, and dual opposing propellers to prevent circular motion, noting steering forces and mechanical linkages.
An examination traces the origin of familiar expressions such as What the dickens and a regular shindy. It cites an author’s note to the 1570 poem The Popish Kingdom and hints at a misread quotation about Mia Ahufsteyy saga Chelduueeny.
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