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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Aug 14, 1926
Page
2
Jethro visits Moses after Israel’s deliverance and observes Moses’ exhausted workload. He suggests appointing capable, god fearing judges over thousands, hundreds, fifties, and tens to share justice, alongside Moses teaching statutes. Moses accepts the plan, appoints them, and Jethro departs.
The first university in Spain was founded at Palencia in Old Castle about 1209. It did not last long there, and about 80 years later it moved to Salamanca where it continued.
After visiting city emporiums the proprietor of Plank Centers leading grocery has taken some cracker barrels and fixed up a rest room on his ride porch.
A stylized line depicts a despairing speaker mixing French and mock German to mock a word. He claims ze Jungunee cannot be understood and jokes about learning to pronounce phobia. The fragment hints at a comic beat about mispronunciation and fear of a doctor’s instruction.
A stock speculator, just back from vacation, recalled in the country he narrowly escaped being cornered in a very heavy bull movement, according to the Boston Transcript.
A reflective note on how education guides young men toward temperance and steadiness, balancing wealth and poverty to form a steady path into old age. It emphasizes study as a quiet arbiter of character and resourcefulness.
The sermon discusses Jesus warning that eighteen died in a tower collapse, not because of greater sin, but to urge all to repent. It contrasts human judgment with divine judgment, stressing that only repentance offers eternal life and that delaying judgment leads to ruin. The preacher urges personal conviction and faith in Christ as Savior and Lord.
In this Kansas City Star excerpt, Thomas Robert Malthus 1766 to 1814 is cited as noting that population tends to grow faster than subsistence. It mentions government consideration of limiting marriages and notes the idea was echoed by Plato Aristotle Franklin and Hume, with Malthus presenting the theory systematically.
The Department of Agriculture cautions that certain Cordius like organisms resembling horse hairs are not uncommon in some regions. They enter water from insects and small organisms, mate, and lay eggs. Microscopic offspring multiply, some later infect hosts and grow to large sizes, though horse mane and tail hairs do not threaten life.
The Vancouver Province reports on sunfish nesting habits where the male guards a nest, with a strange method of building a stacked nest of layers of eggs and stones. A tiger of stones covers the eggs, forming a two foot diameter chamber, then weed fibers interwoven create a protected home for the developing young. The male protects the nest while the female deposits eggs and later assists in guarding.
The article describes how arid weather and winter torpor slow respiration in animals like hedgehogs and bats. It notes that in very cold, oxygen deprived chambers some species survive extended hibernation, while others perish or partially revive when exposed to heat or ice revealing the fragility of winter dormancy.
Fragmentary reminiscences laud Benjamin Franklin as a central figure whose influence spans science and liberty. The piece notes broad admiration in antiquity and modern republics, citing the reverence shown by Prance and other contemporaries for his death.
The article traces the shift from breeches to stockings, noting the term historic garments evolved through centuries. It mentions the Lesanette now popular for schoolchildren and explains the word stock as related to the trunk.
A quotation argues that women are not more vindictive than men and that reputational damage often comes from the man who rejects a woman rather than the woman herself. The author cites Clive Sheridan discussing Ina Hearst's Cosmopolitan context and notes the claim spans races and regions.
Two new bells added to Carlisle Cathedral to restore the ringing after a 190 year quiet. The old bells were silenced after 1715 when Prince Edward Stuart crossed the border and one bell, cast in 1640, is among the country’s oldest. Another bell, cast in Carlisle by order of Oliver Cromwell, is believed unique for being rung by the Protector.
An aged account credits Jan Baptist van Helmont born 1577 with the first scientific note of a gas formed from heated crucibles. He described a "wild spirit" or "breath" he called tweest or pelst, linking it to gas naming. The text questions impact of discoveries on world’s creation.
The apple originated in Central Asia and was introduced to England in 1620 by the government of Massachusetts Bay Colony.
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