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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1894
Page
1
An army of workmen invades the Ilennegan Bates corner soon to join Oehin's Acme Hall making the business the largest house south of New York and twice the size of any in Baltimore. Operations do not interfere with business they only lower prices.
Thousands of suits across popular materials discounted by three to ten dollars per item. Sale prices include six fifty seven ninety five and twelve dollar ranges. Boys department offers outfits at two fifty three fifty and five dollars, with hats and fine dress shirts also featured in the furnishing department.
A detailed, period description explains the caterpillar’s final molt and emergence as the new integument is revealed through three open segments while the creature twists and contracts. The excerpt shifts to anecdotes about celebrity doubles, from Chauncey Depew to Charles Skinner, citing impersonations and mistaken identities in urban life.
A fragment from The Century describes voyages and coastal rites, detailing offerings to sea spirits and winds. It cites Lieutenant J D Jerrold Kelley on a voyage narrative and notes Indian, Algonquian, Aztec, and Inca practices of tobacco offerings to river gods and seas.
A city youth pursues adult airs, shaving twice weekly and boasting of early maturity. An optician tests a customer while a girl notes four hairs on the youth’s upper lip, then seven more. Amid school punishments, a boy defends a friend’s whispers. A science note claims air density and expansion implications for deep earth and high altitude.
A compendium column recounts Mme Turgeneff’s domineering scenes from 19th century Russia, notes on King Theelin’s gilded but hollow jewels in Mandalay, a Western diner exchange in Delmonico’s, and a swift primer on gold extraction and early Maine prohibition. It also surveys long medical terms such as tetrahydroparameth yloxychinoline and lists a misnamed ossified fracture cure term.
The piece cites Dr Blimche of a private madhouse where Guy de Maupassant died and links ear shape to evolution and heredity. It recalls Paris Cor remarks and quotes George Bidder and Zerah Coburn as lightning calculators, noting remarkable mental feats and a child prodigy square of 999,099 in five seconds.
New York Weekly notes controversial remarks about Romani people and calls for legal education. The piece mentions a violent threat heard by Gary Gus, and references a burglar named Bill who died awaiting a new trial after a long wait. The report reflects a biased, sensational tone of the period.
Rome Letter notes the pope wears white silk in ordinary dress and on solemn occasions. It cites St. James the Less as originator, per St Cyril, archbishop of Jerusalem, while St. Peter’s transfiguration story is also linked to the pope’s white cassock.
A tongue in cheek exchange features an old lady scolding a birdstuffer for her parrot’s feathers falling. The carver claims the art has advanced to the point parrots melt as if alive, a boast from Culendrier about his craft.
A Detroit Free Press line ponders what inspires poetry. The speaker contrasts mountain size with the amount of money expected, noting the check as the muse rather than nature.
An extensive traveler recalls a railroad wreck where a car overturned and passengers tumbled, one man staying calm and even risking return to the wreck to retrieve a waistcoat containing more than $1,000. The tale shows quick, sobering danger and a striking act of daring amid wreckage. The piece also notes guards, nightly patrols at The Bank of England, and a family of warriors with Union and Confederate service.
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