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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Aug 02, 1913
Page
6
Mrs Edith Durham travels with a stranger posing as her husband on a trans Atlantic voyage. James Richmond reveals he is fleeing a murder after defending a woman from her violent husband. He begs Edith to continue the pretense to save his life as he heads toward America.
A man returns from travels to find his beloved with a family in upheaval. Her father is in prison after banker troubles, mother jailed as a suffragette, sister a Bloomingdale asylum decorator, and brother divorced and bankrupt to dodge alimony. He brushes aside the chatter to kiss her.
Edith Durham aids a man who fled an abusive husband by posing under another name. Aiding his sister, he faces exposure from a detective aboard a ship and lands safely in New York as Edith confronts the truth that the man she helped was her own husband.
A London catalogue highlights a 1647 tract “Hey, Hoe, for a Husband, or The Parliament of Malches” with female figures naming Veatrice Bilnks and others. It discusses women’s demand for votes and a “parliament of ladies” with laws to live easier, challenging male dominance.
A Detroit Free Press snippet shows a couple debating funds for a bonnet gown and simple dresses. The dialogue reveals strained finances, with one partner citing business needs and restraint while the other hints at luxury costs despite a planned cruise.
A letter argues Ulster-Scots influence shaped Belfast into a prosperous city and contributed to early American leaders. It links James I of Scotland to Ulster settlement and credits figures like Andrew Jackson, James K. Polk, and Horace Greeley, noting Robert Fulton’s Scottish descent and the Livingston family’s role.
George Ensor, a city businessman, was attacked by more than a dozen snakes emerging from a rotten log while fishing near Mountain Dale, Piedmont, West Virginia. The reptiles bound his arms and legs as he tried to escape, prompting him to roll into his breakfast fire. His clothes caught fire and the snakes scalded loose. he then jumped into the stream to extinguish the flames. Ensor suffered severe burns to his body, arms, and face, but doctors in Mountaindale say he has a chance for recovery.
Harper's Weekly explains that pain is often greater from skin injury than from deep bullet wounds. The skin’s nerve endings cause extreme pain when torn, while muscle or bone injury may produce less nerve stimulation. It notes amputations hurt mainly from skin cutting, muscle sawing, and bone sawing rather than the deeper trauma.
Sparker and Plug return from a ride in Sparker's new automobile and discuss their seven children. Plug asks if they have favorites and Sparker admits no favorites but notes more interest in this year's model than earlier ones.
The Chicago Record-Herald quotes Maurice G. C. Lipman in a dialogue about revenge and restraint after a workplace mistake. The speaker urges calm, urges not to repeat errors, and hints at consequences, warning listeners to avoid retaliation.
J Pierpont Morgan reflects on silence via Old John Bates an upholsterer famed for never speaking except brief exchanges. A patron asks about the best mattress and repeats a past answer revealing the joke that talking is his ruin in a concise parable about restraint and memory.
A garrulous charwoman complains about six years without work and four years of illness, supporting two children including a sixteen year old. The young mistress asks if the elder daughter helps, and the charwoman replies that she is a real consort, often sitting and crying with her.
Cardinal Gibbons visited southern Maryland in a churchly capacity and was entertained by the Jesuits in Leonardtown. A festive repast featured Mamond-backed terrapin, seafood and oysters as the cardinal remarks jokingly about dining with the Jesuits, prompting the priest’s wry reply.
A child Doris asks if the saying the good die young is wise and wonders how mummy managed to get prowed up, revealing a touching father daughter exchange about wisdom and mortality in a humorous home moment.
Gossip of Tyalgum New South Wales, while inspecting dairy cattle, fired at a dingo under bright moonlight and killed three with one bullet. The shot struck the first in the neck, passed through to break the second’s back, and hit the third between the ribs, breaking its fore leg after dingoes had already slain a cattle dog.
A columnist notes that a speaker with little to offer beyond his own chatter rarely attracts a large audience, reflecting on the limits of self-centered presentations and the public’s appetite for substance.
A junior usher answers a call for the senior partner who takes the phone and retires to his desk. After twenty minutes he resumes, then informs his partner it was his wife on the line. She kept talking and had not paused him.
Instructions advise placing the screwdriver on the remaining head edge and pressing a small black object against the screwdriver while turning. This technique stabilizes the bit and allows the screw to back out as easily as with an intact head.
A saying extols cheerful saints, arguing that a smiling saint does more good in the world than one who frets. The piece frames happiness as a virtue and suggests positive bearing influences others more effectively than sorrow.
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