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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Apr 14, 1888
Page
2
The store touts a vast Spring display of men and boys clothing praised for substance, style, and low prices. It claims exclusive manufacture and retailing power with over five million dollars in annual output, promising better and cheaper suits than any rival across all fabrics and styles.
The second floor displays a vast spring clothing department for boys with kilts knee pants suits and Norfolk suits in varied fabrics and colors. Prices range from 35 cents for shorts to 16 dollars for full suits, with many items pitched 25 percent below rivals. The store invites families to visit and bring the boys.
A New York Sun report describes a conductor who demonstrates telegraphy by induction aboard a moving Lehigh Valley train. He uses a battery and a earphone tied to his head to send and receive messages via a non contact method, enabling immediate dispatch and passenger messaging across lines.
The Philadelphia Times discusses a vast inland sea during the cretaceous period and the possible presence of primitive hunter gatherers on exposed continents. It notes no direct evidence of humans then, but imagines low marshy coasts and caverns along the gulf region from Arkansas to Minnesota as homes for early fishermen and wild men.
Poetic tribute from the Boston Transcript praising a girl’s face as a source of sunlit joy. The verse extols her smile, gentle forehead, and eyes that banish tears, calling for blessing and lasting happiness on her life. Ernest W. Shurtleff.
Dishes using condiments such as red pepper and herbs boost digestion while salt remains essential to health. Salads with condiments aid assimilation of all food. Also notes vary on solar heat longevity with a claim the sun may not sustain life in 10 million years.
The essay argues for sealing letters to protect contents from loss or prying hands, noting that unsealed letters risk exposure to servants or others at the hall. It cites the practical danger of sending high value sums in unsealed envelopes and questions whether etiquette justifies such risk. The piece reflects late 19th century concerns about privacy and trust.
Dr R W Shufeldt urges ornithologists to use portable cameras with instantaneous shutters to photograph birds. He notes prairies offer perches where many species gather for hours, and recommends concealment and a snap shutter to capture birds in nests, flight, or feeding. Rookeries and water birds in the Bahamas or Alaska are welcomed subjects.
A Paris theatre manager asks Meissonier to paint a drop curtain named for his fame. Meissonier calculates value at 61,200,000 francs per meter and that a 15 by 18 meter curtain would take 190 years to finish, then declines as too old.
A theory by M. Leven presented to the Societe de Biologie argues obesity is a nervous disorder. It recommends avoiding mental and physical fatigue and a diet including eggs soup milk rice and potatoes as treatment.
A tribal medicine man prepares for rites by soaking a reindeer skin to loosen hair, placing the skin against his body as it freezes, then striking it to dry. The passage notes such practices shield inhabitants from cold without need of blankets, while some novel details remain unclear due to garbled text.
The country hosts about 460 colleges employing roughly 3,000 professors and enrolling some 35,000 students.
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