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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Apr 22, 1922
Page
2
The item notes regular Saturday publication and post office classification in Denton Maryland. It records a 1922 date and indicates second class mail status for the Saturday edition. The brief line mirrors a local newspaper masthead style from the era.
Editorial notes urge garden planting in peacetime and wartime echoes of mobilization. It discusses seed sending, League of Nations data on military resources, and the shift from grand war to collective effort, with reflections on European peace, German aims, and US joining the League. It also notes 1922 weather and political shifts including a Republican loss in upstate New York.
The piece promotes thrift as a national virtue urging people to save under personal sacrifice. It frames thrift societies as essential to reform after wartime spending and extravagance, presenting saving as a patriotic goal under the banner of thrift.
The piece argues thrift is heroic when forged by hardship. It cites Dr. S W Straus urging self denial and sacrifice, warning against indulgence. It asserts enduring privations builds willpower, shaping future success and happiness through prudent economy and self discipline.
Colonel Oswald Tilghman of Easton and his son Major Harrison Tilghman of New York approve an exhibition of the uniform sword silver spurs and other gear once worn by Colonel Tench Tilghman Washington’s aide. The relics survived private ownership and will be publicly displayed in the new Maryland Historical Society fireproof library in Baltimore. The Tilghman family notes his famed four day ride from Yorktown to Philadelphia delivering news of Cornwallis’s surrender.
A communication to the Journal defends the Voss high school bill and chides the American Union editorial. It notes countywide discussions two years ago and asserts Denton citizens supported the Voss bill, criticizing Senator Towers for not consulting local delegates and for pressing a bill “This bill or nothing” without broader consent.
The piece argues our delegation supported a people’s bill for a new Denton high school, opposing Towers’s hand picked commission. It questions motives, calls for fair accountability, and defends delegates as trustworthy. The column shifts to assorted curiosities of the news and light notes on local events and oddities.
The Queen Anne Community Club met at the high school Tuesday night with a varied program. Little Winter Gibson sang, a spelling contest engaged fifteen members, a reading by George Eaton, and a duet by the Misses Wooters and Eaton. Mrs Cartelyou has recovered and returns to Wilmington. St Pauls sermons and Easter services are noted with specific topics and times. Master visitors John Mullikin and wife from Philadelphia visited Mr and Mrs Rowens. Easter exercises at St Pauls Sunday school, Miss Louise Short and Miss Dorothy Jump home from State Normal for Easter. George Stewart and Kemp Stewart are mentioned with family visits. Easter egg hunt for Sunday School children. Addie Morgan improves after illness. Harris Chapel services scheduled Sunday.
At a Friday April seven meeting the Denton Community Club expressed condolences to members who lost loved ones. Resolutions praised the deceased James Fisher, Ethel Stevens, James Collins, and others, extended deepest sympathy to their families, and ordered copies sent to widows and recorded in club minutes.
Mr Samuel F. Shannahan, editor of the Tlaston Star Democrat, has been elected vice president of the American Publishers' Conference, an organization of over 5,000 members.
In a vintage ad style text the product Gude's Pepto Mangan is pitched as a blood-builder to combat run-down health. It claims gradual but real benefits, with iron for easy absorption, sold in liquid and tablet forms, and notes physicians have used it for thirty years to restore strength and vitality.
This notice states that the subscriber has obtained letters testamentary from the Orphans Court for Caroline County Maryland on the personal estate of James H Fisher. The document requests creditors of the deceased to present their claims according to law and specifies the administrative procedures and deadlines.
John W. Altfather administrator of Daniel Altfather deceased cites letters of administration from the Orphans Court of Caroline County Maryland. All persons with claims must exhibit them with vouchers authenticated by November 8, 1922, to be eligible for any benefit of the estate. April 18, 1922.
For Sale One big Poland-China boar ready for service and six March-farrowed boar pigs. Pigs are by Harvester's Chief, sire weighed 1125 lbs as a two-year-old. All row pigs sold. A few sows may breed to Harvester's Chief. Luther A Short Ridgely Md. 4-22-35 One registered Poland-China boar two-and-a-half years old. Fred Howard Jr Denton Md.
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