05 Dec 1903
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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1903
Page
1
In a London assembly, Miss Conyers dances with a charming stranger who seduces her with waltzes and a private room. He coerces her into surrendering a necklace, bracelet, brooches, and a hair ornament before locking her in a room. Police say the man is a known swell mobsman, but his address and the loot remain unrecovered.
Governor Turney had organized a brigade before Tennessee seceded and visited winter quarters with a Georgia brigade where a religious revival swept through the ranks. When told twelve Georgians had been converted and none from Tennessee, he demanded baptism for eighteen men to prevent Georgia from surpassing Tennessee in religious devotion.
Mrs. Spiteful tells how a neighborhood club collapsed after one rule forced guests to leave at once ending social time and leaving interest to fade. Mrs. Newcomer notes they had a nice run while it lasted. The anecdote reflects on social dynamics and rigid rules in small community groups.
A witty exchange quoted from the New York Tribune has a Boston woman confessing that when she feels a craving she always eats pie. The dialogue frames longing as a playful appetite and ends with the humorous punchline.
An Englishman and a German travel together in a dili gence both smoking. The German tries to engage in polite conversation while warning the other about a fiery ash on the waistcoat and a spark near the neckerchief. The Englishman bluntly asks why the German cannot leave him alone, noting his coat tail has burned for ten minutes.
In a rainy uptown street a dainty morning gown woman mails a note before a sharp dressed wife asks why she does not. The first woman explains she cured her husband by sewing all his pockets shut except the coat pocket for the letter. He later discovers the mail was sent, causing mild chaos as he juggles items and realizes the trick on the way downtown. The scene ends with a trolley arrival and a crumpled letter sneaked into the mailbox.
A female finback, sixty eight feet long with a thirty foot circumference, is exhibited as the largest land whale. Estimated interior could hold fifty men. The skeleton came from a dead whale washed ashore near Forked River New Jersey. Scientists note whale ancestors were terrestrial mammals that became aquatic.
A yacht owner learned his cook deckhand is married with two sons in Finland. The Finn boasted of buying a $900 house there from his earnings as a sailor. When asked why his wife doesn’t live abroad, he replied that she dislikes the climate.
A New York widow visits a stonecutter to design a tombstone for her husband, who was a Wall Street man. She picks a design with many little lambs atop, arguing they reflect comfort in death. The dealer cautions it suits a child, but she insists on the chosen image.
A minister visits county jail on a Sunday and offers encouragement to prisoners. He checks on a worker, a colored man who says he is not a common criminal but a highway robber, asserting dignity and moral stance in response to the minister’s questions.
A Life magazine excerpt rails against boorish talk and argues true gentility avoids speaking when unnecessary. It claims polite discourse elevates conversation to an art, while business or politics are only utilities. It notes that scandal mongers are the only ones who talk shop openly.
A Kennebec Journal excerpt recalls Gardiner school ma ams in the first grade. A teacher quizzes a girl on the word run and the pupil answers by describing tumbling down, prompting the teacher to move on.
A holidaying gentleman in a Scottish county town observed a line of hose and asked if there had been a fire. The brigade man said no, they were practicing. When asked how they call out their men, he explained they simply drop them a post card.
A man and a woman discuss a marriage ceremony that began as a joke but ended with the couple admitting it became real. He stays absorbed in his paper while she presses the point, mentioning others who face the marriage question and discover its weight. The moment passes with no interruption for an hour.
An old woman in the provincial theater pit rose and cried out after a scene in Hamlet. When Polonius is asked, the air retorts that he is a fishmonger, prompting the woman to exclaim that real acting beats stage craft any day.
A superstition says a small beetle known as the death watch taps its head on walls or surfaces to summon its mate. The tapping sounds like fingernails on a table and the insect can be coaxed to answer such taps.
In a Rockingham scene, Mrs. Oldcastle laments a fashion misstep by Mrs. Goldthwaite. The hostess defends noting the mother of grown daughters surprised by the attire and its long neck. Chicago Record-Herald report.
A clipped snippet portrays Mrs. Black-Sam Johnson leaving his wife six months ago. The piece probes whether he will ever return as she begins to hold faint hopes, reflecting rural social doubt and sentiment.
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