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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Aug 27, 1910
Page
3
Due to cramped quarters our business moves to a new location to serve customers better and showcase our exclusive line of imported salt ingg. An early inspection will ensure a large varied selection to choose from.
Train service line shows Baltimore LHAVIE southbound toward Norfolk with a parallel Norfolk northbound run. The fragment indicates directional routing between cities with limited context on schedule or operator details.
Daly except Sunday from Mer 19 Tight Street cor Pee 630 pm Old Point Comfort 600 im Daily except Sunday from Pier Jackson Fayelle Sts 61h pim Old Point Comfort 73 pm WHST POINT RICHMOND VA Tue Thu Sat Pier 18ld Street Jee 5.00 pm Mon Wed Fri Southam by Depot 430 ppm coast transfer by bus between Pleza and Railroad Depot baggage checked through from residences or hotels to destination Complete schedules fares at Ticket Offices or from General Offices Light and Ice sheets Baltimore Md & J CHIBM N CHAPMAN Genl Pass Agt Asst Genl Pass Agt
A local advertisement offers first class bricks for sale from F. W. Towns, a Denton Maryland manufacturer of cement burial vaults. The listing emphasizes brick quality and availability for buyers seeking building material from a regional supplier.
A witty aside from Lippincott's recounts a clerk waking to hear a man deny being Mr Ferguson and claim he took a key to a room ten minutes earlier. The tale ends with Ferguson allegedly falling from a window, leaving a key behind and requesting another.
A compact aphorism from Pope asserts that whatever exists is right within providence and nature. It emphasizes submission to a disposing power and the limits of human reason guiding toward universal good amid discord and error.
A Cleveland man recalls a winter night in an east end flat where the janitor’s poor service left tenants freezing. In frustration he confronts the man who retorts that he will seek warmth elsewhere, a wry exchange captured in the Cleveland Leader.
A Scottish traveller’s cushion explodes in a heated railway carriage prompting a quip about repairs in town. The excerpt also includes a humorous anecdote about Du Chaillu and a New York reception, plus a barroom exchange over Gaynor’s mayoral chances with a surgeon’s warning about an operating table.
A man bursts into a banker’s office to verify an alibi after claiming to have been arrested for insulting a woman. He fears his wife will be told he was detained, while neighbor Smith concocts a story to stop hiccups. The scheme backfires until the wife learns the ruse and the man’s friend confesses.
A comic mix from old South hospitality to a battered Irishman boasting luck and a flirtation with fate. Miss Mattie’s servant Tillie recalls a playful bath invitation. An Irishman’s cheerful misfortune sparks a boast about luck. A British professor’s weight gag ends a witty students’ epigram about obedience to nature.
A discussion cites Eskimo men who daily swallow twenty pounds of flesh and oil, and a Yakut from Siberia known to consume in twenty four hours the hind quarter of a large ox, twenty pounds of fat and melted butter as a drink, illustrating extreme appetites in ethnographic anecdotes.
A truncated exchange mentions Wilson and a request to lend five pounds. It hints at a prior meeting and mentions the London Mall and fivers. The text is incomplete and lacks full context.
A witty quote likens a rival to Napoleon in strategy, noting the man secured a two dollar yearly raise a year ago and has not yet informed his wife. The remark plays on secrecy and pride in a humorous exchange.
The New York Press notes that tears appear across species from ruminants to dolphins and seals. It cites Malay belief that captured dugongs cause the mother to cry, and that Malay collectors preserve these tears as a charm to intensify love.
A Paris jewel possessed by Madame Du Barry reportedly displayed an underwater outline that grew clearer over months. A servant named Lamar claimed the figure showed a woman before a scaffold with an executioner beside her, and the jewel later triggered Du Barry to faint on viewing the scene.
A New York Times essay argues that hens and animals act on inherited instincts when faced with danger. It explains flight choices aimed at survival, noting that fear of pursuers shapes their route and that humans misjudge birds as stupid.
The Mag azine of Commerce notes gold leaf has remained essentially unchanged since ancient times. Gold leaf was used on skin teeth coffins tombs and monuments and the ancient gilding method from eleventh century AD remains the same as today. Greek pottery from the fifth century used leaves as thin as modern sheets, showing no real advancement in thickness.
Lord Brougham, famed for temperance, was provided melted port with brandy during his reform bill appeal in the Lords. As he delivered his last plea kneeling on the woolsack he slipped to the floor, then appeared in prayer before friends lifted him up, fearing he suffered from mailed port.
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