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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Apr 27, 1918
Page
3
Notice lists travel terms for traders with horse and wagon at $200 and two horses at Se Buontas. It prohibits dealing in stock, bills, notes, banknotes or other obligations for personal or client accounts. It sets broker rates for real estate, merchandise, bill, insurance, and exchange brokers, with various fees.
The article recalls how Mrs. John Hays Hammond persuaded Transvaal President Kruger to spare her husband John Hays Hammond, condemned to death for high treason after the Jameson raid. Kruger commuted the sentence to 15 years, with Hammond later freed after a fee of $125,000, preserving multiple lives.
Aeronautics summarizes calculations from a Zeppelins downing in England last October. It states the latest Zeppelin is designed to operate at 16,000 to 18,000 feet, with potential for higher ascent under stress, and notes fuel limits and weather factors. The piece cites War ner Allen’s claim of a similar 16,000 to 18,000 feet operating range.
A passage discusses the wake as a long standing practice from ancient Egypt Greece and Rome, noting Irish customs and the symbolic seven candles and shrouds. It explains watching the body, prayers, and communal hospitality that follow, preserving memory of the departed with neighborly warmth.
A fragment from the Louisville Courier Journal presents a quip about a nurse described as too pretty for a case. The speaker fears the nurse’s appearance may bias the patient, noting the patient already has palpitation of the heart.
Prizes totaling 25000 dollars will reward professional and amateur Maryland farmers who show the greatest year to year increase in food production. The program promotes garden plots under half an acre and larger plots, aims to mobilize state food potential, and emphasizes patriotic service to support wartime needs.
Barley crust recipe uses two cups barley flour and oil with baking powder and water for a stiff dough. The note cites Sunday, April 14 as a warm historic date when Americans cut wheat consumption in half, reducing flour from 80 to 75 percent versus Victory Bread.
A reader is warned against assuming a tooth strike from sugar or grit signals a German plot. The piece mocks Kaiser propaganda meant to frighten Americans about food supply.
A wartime summary urges rationing and production shifts to support Allies. Citizens advised to save wheat and sugar, with home gardens and guard duty for potatoes. Government aims for a billion bushels of spring wheat, winter wheat output projected at 540 million and 672 million expected, plus constrained consumption at Grimes county.
A Washington street car tale recounts a sleeper who endured late three oclock hours. The truism of habit is noted as he recalls standing most routes and finally finding a seat when a motherly woman offers one. The piece captures late night transit humor and local color.
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