23 Apr 1921
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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Apr 23, 1921
Page
1
Notice outlines license tax scales under the law for merchants, hawkers, peppers, brokers, and circus managers. Rates depend on stock value or service type, with duties for oath delivery and renewal by May first. Includes provisions for salt sales and various broker categories.
Sheriff Owen N. Dulin of Caroline County issues notice under the 1892 act. It requires owners or agents of stallions charging service fees to file a detailed pedigree description with the county clerk before offering services. False pedigrees or noncompliance void licenses and allow damages claims. Subscribe for the JOURNAL for county news.
A land tract in Parcel A in the Second Election District Caroline County Maryland lies on the west side of the road from Greenlee's Cross Roads to Greensboro. The description runs from the road center about 110 feet north of the cross roads through a chain of bearings and distances to the county road center and back to the starting point, ending with a stated area of containing a specified land amount.
Description of a large land tract in Parcel B second election district Caroline County Maryland on the east side of the county road from Greenlee's Cross Roads toward Greensboro Burrsville with detailed bearings and distances along the county road and natural boundaries including a bridge over a branch and lines to adjacent lands of Nathaniel Horsey and W G Wooters totaling about 130 acres the start point and closing at the original survey point.
A deed description traces Parcel C in the Second Election District of Caroline County Maryland, outlining boundary lines from Greenlee's Cross Roads to the Greensboro Burrsville road. The text specifies course angles and distances along roads, a branch, and a bridge, concluding with an area measure yet incomplete.
Parcel A includes a two story dwelling barn carriage house and 750 tree apple orchard bearing fruit age 6 to 10 years with 50 fruit trees. 10 acres timber and rest cultivated. Parcel B offers dwelling barn and outbuildings with timbered area and cultivated land. Parcel C is a timber wood tract. Three payment plan options with title papers at purchaser expense. OSCAR CLARK Trustee. A plat is available at the office of Oscar Clark or Fred R Owens Denton Mad.
Sub scribers in Caroline county Maryland notify that the Orphans Court has granted letters of administration on the personal estate of George A Bullock, deceased. All claimants must present their claims with vouchers by November 8, 1921, or be barred from the estate by law. Dated April 19, 1921.
Herbert Calhoun, an engineer, and Bernice Halliday, state inspector, clash over masculine and feminine roles during a fishing season at Cave Harbor. After days of tense pride and mutual scorn, Bernice reveals she has resigned her job, admitting feelings and a shift in their dynamic as they bond over fishing and shared ranges.
Lawson Purdy cites a New York dinner remark about a December night encounter. A shivering orphan wanders streets, asks the policeman about jail, and longs to see his jailed mother. The officer promises warmth and soup, while the lantern theft hints at harsher truths.
Under Connecticut law property acquired by a married woman for her services or with funds she earns may be held by her for her use. The husband acts as a trustee for the wife’s estate after her death, and on his death the property passes to her heirs or to those named in her will.
The New Orleans Times-Picayune notes palm oil is being used as an experimental automotive fuel in Africa and Belgium. The article highlights its potential as a cheap substitute for petrol and hints at broader acceptance as chemistry reveals surprising properties of palm oil in engines.
A Peruvian observer reads of the 1912 Republican convention in Chicago and wonders why the United States did not seize the White House. The narrator explains that in America it is a citizen’s right to criticize the Chief Executive and that political power changes without army intervention, unlike Peru.
A German gliding and soaring competition in the Rhone district, staged by the League of German Model Aircraft and Gliding Clubs, ended in tragedy with the death of pilot Von Loessel after elevator failure. Monoplanes and biplanes, some with seats and landing gear, entered. longest flight 1,830 meters for 142.5 seconds by Klemperer at 330 meters height, gliding angle about 1 in 31.
In June 1918 Canadian soldiers crossing the Atlantic tossed a sealed bottle with a note asking the finder to forward it to the Toronto Sunday World. The bottle washed ashore at St Ives in Cornwall and the request was carried out. The piece ponders the bottle’s two‑year drift and the Gulf Stream’s possible memory of smuggling days.
An illuminating engineer explains that a 100 watt lamp can substitute for sun, with a creamy ceiling and opalescent ceiling disk creating soft radiance flooding the room. The diffusing disk adds light directly beneath, mimicking filtered sunlight and the mellow glow once found under trees.
On New Yorks Colonnade Row, once La Grange terrace built in 1838, stand structures that sheltered Dickens Bryant Washington Irving and a US President John Tyler. Joseph Contes restaurant occupies part of the space while the vicinity preserves Irving residence history and literary associations.
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