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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Apr 25, 1914
Page
3
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A Youth's Companion account claims Ming Shan tea grows on a western Szechuan mountain and is cultivated by Buddhist monks. The few pounds are tribute to the imperial household, raising questions of who will obtain this luxury. De Rosthorn linked the proverb by noting Yangtze spring water, once sourced near Chen Kiang, combines with Ming Shan leaves to create the perfect tea.
A New York steel company agent describes the best man in commerce as amenable to discipline and able to take criticism, fair and considerate to workers, willing to critique for the company’s benefit, performs tasks well, accepts a little overtime, takes on new work gladly, and learns from colleagues.
The article urges careful, informed care for house plants to maintain charm and avoid depression from unhealthy specimens. It advises minimal winter disturbance to roots, notes rest periods, and recommends summer feeding for palms, rubber plants, and ferns while suggesting liquid nourishment for fast-growing soft wooded varieties like geraniums.
A quotation by Josiah Royce defines loyalty as a unity with a universal human cause while each person serves through a nearer private calling. The text links individual vocation to advancing humanity and emphasizes devotion to family, community, and colleagues as a path to broader loyalty.
The article notes living descendants of Aztec monarchy in Holland and Mexico, with lesser kin still receiving Mexican pensions. It mentions Montezuma descendants in Salamanca via the Maldonado family linked to the English Lancaster lineage, and cites Empress Eugenie of France as claiming Montezuma descent, described as bearing greater imperial stock than Napoleon III.
A farmer driving along a country road finds a neighbor in a buggy with stones in both hands. The horse keeps turning to look at him and the horseman then hurls another stone. The farmer jokes he will be barned if the horse laughs at him. Source cites the Kansas City Star via Ashland Clipper.
A Hartford report notes a resident who reached one hundred years, then faced multiple arrests for excise violations, illustrating a paradox where extreme age coincides with legal troubles. The piece emphasizes the unlikely combination of longevity and recurring wrongdoing.
A provocative line from The Gay Rebellion by R W Chambers sparks discussion on gender norms. The quote attributes a blunt view of men to the average girl, drawing attention to evolving attitudes in social circles.
The piece contrasts ancient rulers with contemporary royalty, noting lavish sums spent on courtly luxury, public relations, and private lives. It cites Egypt, Russia, Italy, Spain, Britain, Denmark, Belgium, Edward VII, Catherine the Great, and Cleopatra as examples, arguing scandals reveal shifts from old to new princes.
A Londoner sent to Antioch Syria finds life cheap with five dollar monthly rent five cent pallets and chickens four cent eggs a dozen three cent mutton and lamb per pound. He rents a house keeps three servants paid sixty cents a week and buys fruit and vegetables for a quarter weekly. His American neighbors in Antioch live with total expenses under two hundred dollars a year.
Sir William Petty born 1623 in Rumsey Hampshire England died 1687. The text frames him as worthy of canonization as patron saint of the order citing his will urging charity for real objects and condemning beggars and improvident gifts while he provided for kin and urged others to relieve suffering by prudent charity.
Amedeo Bassi, famed Chicago tenor, owns an estate near Florence once belonging to Amerigo Vespucci. The villa La Stacciata is documented in Florence history since 1406. Repairs were ordered by his wife after acquisition, with a grand salon famed for mural work and medieval arms from Flanders France and Italy. Basel cultivates olives figs and many American fruit trees.
Two thin lengths of celluloid pressed and rapidly pulled apart become charged on both their outer and inner surfaces. Friction from fingers causes negative electrification on the exterior and induces charge on the interior surfaces as well.
A New York traveler argues time is money and speed matters, noting inherited wealth and the urge for faster trains. The piece contrasts lawful hustle with wasteful frenzy, warning against procrastination, excess, and neglect of health, culture, and restraint as keys to success.
George Ade shared a story about a young man who visits Atlantic City for a vacation, spends time with a girl from Altoona, and later faces a quarrel where she asks how many women he knew there. The anecdote ends with a humorous confession of twelve.
A gang of laborers digs a mysterious trench across the street while one man merely goes through the motions. The foreman teases him with sarcasm, telling him to lean on the shovel and that he will pay if it breaks.
The article notes a curious natural law in fish reproduction. Species that diligently guard their young lay fewer eggs, often under one hundred, while species neglecting offspring protection produce hundreds of thousands or millions in a single spawning.
American presses produce 16,000,000 Bibles yearly while English presses print double that amount. Despite vast output errors are rare. Bibles sell for as low as five cents and millions are distributed free. The work is printed in 400 languages and dialects, about 30 percent in English, and its circulation is the largest of any work and keeps rising.
Mlle Lacour, a 75 year old spinster from Wourlton, France, has spent fifty years in bed and vows never to rise again. Though chronically cramped, she remains in good health and has kept her unusual pledge since age twenty.
The Coal Age reports experiments in Germany testing liquid air and oxygen as explosives for mines. Liquid oxygen mixed with aluminum powder detonates with about twice the force of black powder and produces no harmful fumes.
A Tralee farmer reports a cow that refuses water from ordinary supplies. When thirsty the animal leaves the field, goes to a lane with a water tap, turns it on, and drinks. Photographs show the cow using the tap and turning it off after drinking.
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