24 Aug 1907
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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Aug 24, 1907
Page
1
Giuseppina watches a candy maker from a shop window as push cart men seek her in a fruit trade. The candy maker offers a job to run his shop and notes her neat appearance, strength, and resolve while her worried father explains their modest means. He invites her to start a new life in his shop as plans unfold.
A young girl pushes a fruit cart on Elizabeth Street as male push cart vendors harass her to deter trade. Despite heavy opposition and fatigue, she returns each morning, steadily drawing customers with a clean, well arranged display while observers note the clash with local custom and gender roles.
The article explains early timekeeping for chess using sandglasses and two clock systems on a common base. It details a seesaw base where one clock rises as the other lowers, and a second modern style with a fixed dual clock linked by a brass arm. Players start one clock and stop it on each move, passing control to the opponent.
A London market for old fiddles thrives by ads in country papers and cathedral city issues. Dealers buy cheap instruments, some centuries old, from families who notice offers in local notices, then resell for substantial profits. A Shropshire cello recently moved from £2 to nearly £100 in London. A former theater musician became a leading dealer through remote advertising.
In this tale from Pepys diary era a quarrel between Tom Porter and Sir Henry Bellasis ends in a duel. Porter flees to France after the fight. Bellasis dies days later, with contemporaries calling them fools who killed one another out of love.
An engaged woman spends time in an auction room observing others buying bric-a-brac and wedding gifts. She notes two invited guests purchasing items cheaply and wonders if they bought for her wedding, joking that they may wait until they marry.
In deep quiet waters use extra sinkers to keep the line down. In fast brooks for chub dace or brook trout, remove the float and sinkers and let the bait drift naturally with the current, imitating natural food.
The article describes polishing small steel items like screws by tumbling them in a barrel with leather scraps and dry rouge. The rouge coats the leather, which then acts as a polishing wheel to smooth the screws. Canvas scraps can substitute for leather.
A lady asks what she owes the Irish gardener Dan for the day. Dan replies he’d rather take the half crown offered than the two shillings he would ask, in the Punch cartoon dialogue.
The exchange jokes about a maid claiming to own a feather duster. A quip refers to belonging to the Audubon Society as a playful twist. The brief item sits in a humorous rural or domestic social column style from Harper's Weekly.
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