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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1916
Page
3
Fragmented OCR passage shows dialogue among soldiers or travelers with lines about death, water fetching, and a brook. Mentions of an Indian, a camp, and a scattered breakfast scene hint at a tense march or camp routine, but many phrases are garbled.
Large comfortable car runs Denton to Hurlock daily except Sunday at 6 00 am and 5 30 pm with stops at WilListon American Corner Federalsburg and Williamsburg connecting to Baltimore Ocean City trains. Returns from Hurlock at 8 40 am and 7 15 pm reaching Denton by 9 55 am and 6 35 pm fares listed for each segment and round trip 1 50 with child fares noted.
Denton Greensboro Auto Line operates from Denton to Pennsylvania trains at 7 1 a m and 2 20 p m with Greensboro to Denton departures after Pennsylvania southbound arrivals at 5 42 p m and 7 25 p m on return. Sunday departures from Denton at 3 00 p m for northbound trains. Fare is 50 cents, children under 12 five cents extra for return trips from northbound trains.
Chapter 159 proposes amending Section 32 of Article III to require annual budget bills or supplementary appropriations, with two budgets for the next fiscal year. It details budgeting timelines, contents, and reporting, plus governor and legislature roles, session extensions, and procedures for separate supplementary bills. The measure aims to tighten state spending control while preserving school funding and constitutional limits.
In a tense escape, the narrator and companions confront a savage tribe of ape men while attempting to rescue Summerlee and Challenger from a brutal captor king. Firefights erupt as they flee through brushwood, reloading rifles amid chaos, with pursuit by red ape forces fading as they regroup in a hidden refuge. The three fugitives rest after a perilous day, unaware of further danger from their pursuers.
A narrator recalls crossing a forest thicket toward a brook and Indian caves while being hunted by a predatory ape man. After a brutal attack, Lord Roxton and companions rescue him, resolve to flee, and decide the route toward safety and the Indian caves with a wary night threat lingering.
Four White explorers followed by ape men flee into open country reach a lake where a canoe flotilla approaches. A native rescue party proclaims allegiance and urges a deadly raid on the ape folk. Lord John proposes action, with Challenger and Summerlee agreeing.
George Agnew Clunoberlin’s Century quote extols the African elephant as apex among beasts. It contrasts fearless power with prized ivory, noting the animal’s dignity in Africa and its resistance to captivity, while warning of the looming industrial value behind ivory.
Wong Cin Foo praises Chinese culinary science in preserving fruits, vegetables, and marine products by desiccation, compression, smoking, and candying. He notes chefs’ skill in extending shelf life, calculating meal costs, and maintaining flavor with minimal waste, contrasting practices with American methods.
The Peoria Tribune notes early 19th century court scenes in Peoria County with Judge John Reynolds presiding in Washington County. Courts met in log houses or taverns with a temporary bench and jurors deciding most questions of law. The judge questioned lawyers’ requests for legal instructions, saying jurors will do justice.
A Youth’s Companion excerpt extols biography as entertainment that reveals the foibles fashions and peculiarities of an age. It cites Boswell praising life writing that interweaves private thoughts and sayings to let readers see a man live through his stages. Biography thus offers delightful anecdotes and table talk of the great beyond mere lineage.
A slender young lawyer recalls nearly clashing with Jimmie Squiggs after misreading a remark. Squiggs chased him for blocks, covering twelve seconds before words were spoken, leaving the pursuer half a block ahead throughout the chase.
The eight century tale of Saint Edmund’s death by Danish arrows gains unlikely corroboration. A tree at Hoxne said to have bound him reportedly fell in 1818, and a iron arrowhead fragment was later embedded in the timber, per The Black Letter Saints of the Prayer Book.
A courtroom scene features a judge and a doting doctor arguing over a prescription. The judge insists the patient fix the bill and warns against adding stimulants or anything similar. The exchange centers on what the patient needs to be stirred into fighting trim and whether such a drug was included.
The quote notes procrastination ranks high among costly pleasures. It labels delaying tasks as a form of happiness exploited by time, suggesting awareness of its long term price in life and productivity.
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