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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Dec 03, 1904
Page
1
In a social gathering, a fashionable hypnotist demonstrates control over subjects including Mrs. Leona Carl. Despite resistance, she experiences a trance and loses her diamond jewels, while the hypnotist vanishes with the loot, leaving the crowd convinced of the power of hypnotic influence and the occult.
A ten year old boy at his first party rejects boiled ham with a humorous insistence. He says he can get that to hum, reflecting a blend of sincerity and charm in the family gathering.
In a quaint report from the Little Chronicle a girl named Ruth visited a large wholesale grocery with her aunt. A clerk gave her a small sample bottle of catchup she tasted that evening and joyfully asked her aunt to tell the clerk she would like another sample next visit.
A countryman and his bride applied in the box office for tickets. The ticket seller asked about orchestra chairs parquet or family circle. The groom asked which seat and the bride blushed saying that now they are married proper to sit in the family circle.
An Illinois man recounts a story about D G Tunnicliff a famed central Illinois lawyer and later state supreme court justice who entrapped an old farmer who claimed he could not read The farmer revealed he used a family Bible every Sunday morning to stop his razor The tale ends with the farmer’s blunt reply illustrating courtroom wit through a Bible gag reported by the Seattle Post Intelligencer.
A story recalls early Detroit settler Campan and how Woodward Avenue crosses bear the first names of Campau’s children Elizabeth and Adelaide. A streetcar conductor calls the names as women alight, prompting a puzzled traveler to wonder if he knows all the women’s first names.
A New York schoolboy responds to questions about hall and similar sounding words. He lists meanings for hall as a doorway and for variations hawl oul a word about a shop charges and a chant about all people. The piece preserves run‑on dialect in a brief educational vignette.
An audience of workers heard an orator from London deliver a lengthy speech at a meeting. A strike seemed likely until old John rose and declared that they pay a gentleman from London to tell them why. His retort shifted opinion and the strike did not go forward.
An exchange recalling college days names Bruce as a halfback who kicked two field goals in the second half and mentions a center rush gain of thirty yards. The speakers struggle to remember the president and other minor details, reflecting faded memories of campus life.
Seventy five cents worth of iron ore yields bur iron at 5 dollars, horse shoes at 10 dollars, table knives at 1850 dollars. Manufactured into needles it becomes 6800 dollars, into fancy buttons about 30000 dollars, into watch springs ten times buttons, and into hair springs 100000 dollars.
A historical overview explains how widows gained legal protection and the right to administer their deceased husbands estates. It discusses antediluvian gender roles, quar antine rights, court appointed administrators, and how probate systems vary by state. The piece urges wise widows to claim administration to secure their families legal and financial rights.
A report from Australia describes a small boat escape by six convicts from New Caledonia and their recapture. An Arab convict from Algiers reportedly reached Australia in an open boat 800 miles distant, then was captured in Marseilles after nine years of freedom. Rochefort and four brothers fled as stowaways in an English cutter, while twenty five companions were lost to sharks after building a large canoe in New Caledonia waters.
A Portland Express clipping recalls a business owner noting the drawbacks of dual phones. An office boy answers a bell when told to, and when asked who is wanted, he hesitates and blurts that it might be the wife, highlighting the humorous miscommunication in a small office.
A New York Press item quotes a woman urging a man to explain why he sends love letters through a copying press. The man recalls his prior stenography work and admits he used the device as a precaution.
Whistler was in Paris during England’s coronation when a duchess asked if he knew King Edward. He replied no, noting the king had claimed acquaintance as a brag. The duchess was surprised, recalling a dinner party where the king said he knew Whistler.
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