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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1903
Page
3
The Denton Journal editors Howard Melving Benj Johnson Melvin and Johnson publish this Saturday morning issue dated December 5 1903. The notice reflects a historic local newspaper production with publisher names and date.
A New York drummer recounts a northern Vermont accommodation train tale about Darius and his new buggy. Railroad staff halt the journey to assist unloading and reassembling the buggy, then resume the trip. On the return trip the engineer is seen respiking a loose rail, a minor delay solved with quick work by the crew.
A transcript from a trial shows a witness and the judge arguing about the time of the alleged hog theft. The speaker insists the timing was “watermillion time” and questions the lack of a clock in the patch near the house, exposing confusion between rural slang and legal precision.
Jabe Rogers boasted a head for figgers as he quarreled with an irritated neighbor about a six dollar debt for a calf. Rogers claimed two dollars and thirty seven cents in cash plus his garden, offering to pasture the calf a month longer and draft a paper transferring ownership.
A man boasting of wine knowledge hosts a dinner. His Irish servant brings an old bottle and the master jokes about cobwebs. The servant quips that cobwebs were meant to stay. A separate vignette has a young man finding hope after a failing romance when onions unite their tastes.
In London Tower a hidden ancient well, found by a dull mason, provides thirty feet of sweet spring water sixty feet below a historic corridor. The discovery explains how garrisoned prisoners could drink, independent of the Thames, preserving a now famous water source for beleaguered times.
Miss Edith confronts a group of gutter children tormenting a dirty baby on a garbage box. A hat pin, pins, needles, and other weapons are used in a cruel, improvised game, witnessed by a crowd of girls as the child smiles and shrugs off the abuse. The scene unfolds in a tenement district reported by the Chicago Tribune.
A Toledo Blade summary notes Madagascar’s tangen tree Tanguinia venenifera, famed for deadly fruit once used to test guilt. The cruel ritual often killed convicts, aided by judges with influence. Though now obsolete, fear remains. a French naturalist failed to obtain samples amid native reluctance.
A New York Times report recounts a riderless three minute trolley delay at Twenty third Street and Broadway as a clash between a new conductor and a stubborn motorman spills into the car. Passengers urge motion while the signal bound pair quarrels over duty. The incident ends with a police intervention and a risk of trouble at the terminal.
M Guizot, the great French historian, owed his life to a simple cigar. One day a suspicious man followed him, then fled after Guizot lit his cigar, believing the intended victim smoked. Days later the pursued public figure learned a similar suspect had been arrested for attacking a public official with a long standing grudge.
The article describes a Balkan custom for new visitors across threshold. A guest carries a stone or twig for health and lays it on the hearth. He casts salt into the flames and wishes hosts prosperity. The salt crackles as a chant links to hens and eggs for a fruitful year.
A fruit praised for its pleasant blossom scent, yet famed for a bitten appearance and poisonous properties. The tree is called the forbidden fruit or Eve's apple tree, growing in Ceylon where Mohammedans liken it to the Eden garden fruit and warn of its danger.
A preacher in Joplin asks his congregation to stand if they are paying debts. All but one comply. the man explains he is there to collect subscriptions, revealing the audience includes debtors and subscribers alike. The minister ends with prayers.
The tale of Sysla, inventor of chess, and a king who grants any request. Sysla asks for wheat starting at one grain on the first square and doubling on each of the 64 squares. Lucas de Burgo notes the kingdom lacked enough wheat to pay 18,446,744,073,709,557,615 grains.
A Paris Mercury column surveys babies as social agents, noting their power to soften adults, justify doctors, and complicate households. It quips on babies guiding politics, sparking questions, and even the notion of renting babies as a moral enterprise, while playfully warning of mishaps and rambunctious play.
A young Scot, who would later lead the Royal Scottish Academy, painted near a thatched crofter cottage in the west Highlands. While whitewashing the stone exterior, he was overheard by a rugged local who sneered at his landscape painting and urged him to learn to paint poses.
An Irish masons firm learns a laborer kept time by filling an empty hive with potatoes. After losing his account book blamed on pigs, the tale recites how a full day earned a potato and half day earned half a potato, all eaten. The anecdote appears in Pearson's Weekly.
Young Edgar visits his two aunts and frets over appearance. He notes Aunt Cordelia’s bare arms before a dinner and, while being bathed, compares his own size to hers in a comic reflection. The piece captures light domestic comedy with childlike vanity.
An ad urges women to seek Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription for female weakness and related issues. It claims a $500 reward for any case it cannot cure and includes a testimonial from Mrs. Dan Hall of Wisconsin about her daughter's dramatic recovery after using the remedy. The ad offers Doctor Pierce's Common Sense Medical Adviser free with 21 stamps.
A fragment from the Houston Post presents a dialogue about Mrs. Weeds sincerity and despair. The exchange hints at sorrow and emotional withdrawal as she contemplates love and life’s meaning while describing a private nightly routine.
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