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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1925
Page
3
Irvin S. Cobb recounts a London stage memory wizard who answers questions on history and science with precise facts. Two American bystanders test him on July Fourth, 1776 and the man blurts an apocalyptic quip, drawing amused outrage from the crowd.
A traveler recalls Madame Bernhardt in Anthony and Cleopatra performed in London during Victoria's reign. In a dramatic scene Cleopatra learns Mark Anthony’s defeat at Actium and stabs a slave, wrecks scenery, then collapses as the curtain falls. An amused British matron contrasts the queen’s theatrical frenzy with royal home life.
A Savannah bride hoards four months of wages before her wedding but refuses to entrust the money to her former mistress after marriage. She questions trusting a stranger with the funds, sparking a tense exchange about handling the marital savings.
The article recalls trees planted a decade ago during the Panama Pacific Exposition forming a grove in Golden Gate Park San Francisco with a stone tablet by the Daughters of the American Revolution. It traces the 1915 launch of the transcontinental telephone line linking East and West, its wartime use and subsequent extensions, and notes major milestones in telegraph telephotograph and mail services across the nation. It highlights demonstrations May 6 1916 and May 19 1924 plus the 1924 inauguration coverage and ongoing expansion including routes from New Orleans to El Paso and Minneapolis to Seattle.
Toledo Blade records note that the first table fork reached America in 1633, and now there are about 50 forks, though their use remains unclear.
A cryptic aphorism on the peril of attempting to capture pride as a resource. It argues that pride itself divides into a desert of danger, resisting control and demanding costly sustenance and attention.
A farmer without a telephone is like a nearsighted man without glasses. The piece notes how railroads and telephones were absent a century and fifty years ago and lauds the role of the typewriter and telephone in creating jobs for girls. It explains word origins and reports 1,655 new telephones added in the District of Columbia in the first four months of the year.
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