17 Aug 1929
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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1929
Page
1
A Chevy six cylinder truck carried 800 gallons of gasoline to refuel the St. Louis Robin aircraft on a critical July flight. Despite rough gravel roads, the 460 mile truck run completed safely, preventing a fuel switch and keeping the air mission on course.
The August 18 Atwater Kent Radio Hour will repeat the old time songs begun August 4 as the Graf Zeppelin sailed through. Violinist Katherine Wade-Smith postpones her concert to September 15. The program features classics like When You and I Were Young Maggie and Love's Old Sweet Song with the quartet and orchestra contributions noted.
Mary Pickford appears Monday to Wednesday as a frown up girl in the all talking Coquette. The program blends her signature sweetness with a modern Broadway drama and realistic heartache, featuring the Collegiants providing comedy and news events. Eddie Dowling presents The Rainbow Man, an all talking romance with songs and vaudeville acts at Dover Opera House Thursday to Saturday.
An old advertisement claims Frigidaire mechanical refrigeration is the best home investment after three months, offering a full refund of every dollar and removal of the unit if customers disagree. Pricing starts at $195.00 and up through M. K. Newnam.
A brief, sharp reflection on the impact of authority behind a sentence and the paradox of envy as a form of praise. It contrasts Emersons idea of force with Gay's note that envy can resemble praise, hinting at the social psychology of reception.
A cordial guide to a porch supper featuring jellied chicken and eggs with olives or beets. Includes Sour Cream Dressing, Date Graham Muffins, and iced chocolate with whipped cream, framed as a seasonal menu in a newspaper column.
Mrs Harvey counsels young couple Hattie and Tom to mend quarrels and shared finances after a troubling dispute. Tom finances his wife, but a deeper story of loss and wartime separation emerges as Mrs Harvey reveals her own past with J. T. Harvey. The tale ends with reconciliation and a twist of shared history.
Charles Francis Potter argues in Woman's Home Companion that Christianity owes debts to Zoroastrianism. He claims Zoroaster formed a universal theology, influenced later Jewish and Christian concepts, and that terms like Adversary and Paradise originate from Persian roots. He links Wise Men to Zoroastrian priests and notes Paradise and Sheol derive from Persian and Hebrew terms respectively.
Along the Lee highway near the Holston rivers confluence and a few miles from Kingsport Tennessee stands what is claimed to be the largest elm in the world. Its age is unknown but noted by the first Europeans to visit the region. Other famous elms include the Treaty elm of William Penn the Washington elm at Cambridge and the old Liberty elm at Boston where the first mutterings of revolt began under it.
In Montrevel near the Swiss border a flood foul of eels caused a major outage. Pools of water carried eels into a turbine station on the town’s edge where they clogged turbine vanes and slowed power generation. Engineers labored for days to free the turbines from the minced eel blockage.
Historical note describes mistletoe as a remedy for all diseases among Druids and as a finger ring worn in Sweden in 1888 as a defense against illness, with references to its enduring cultural belief up to more recent times.
In Kitzbuehel Austria a renowned ski center reports winter snow depths of three to four feet while winds remain largely unknown. The article highlights the contrasting calm wind conditions with heavy snowfall typical of the area.
The passage contrasts kinds of people by metaphor and cites John Andrew Holmes comparing some to locomotives that pull trains others to cars that need hauling and others to automobiles that move alone without help.
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