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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Dec 10, 1898
Page
1
A traveler reports returning from the East with a broad line of dry goods. The assortment includes clothing boots shoes hats and caps spanning multiple wearable categories. No dates or place specifics accompany the item.
A fragmentary verse tribute by Aaron Mason in Taiper's Magazine, describing a lonely figure Bollatha Intuce and a restless world. The speaker laments unrequited love and the cold distance of distant stars, within a mythic wilderness setting.
Henry Penryn, owner of the White River ranch, suspects human foes are stealing cattle as hundreds vanish since the last round up. Jase Howard defends Perrriot, a wealthy Frenchman courting Colonel Dahlgreen’s daughter Miss Josie. Penryn confronts the camp crowd, hints at hanging for branding, and rides to safety as armed Mexicans close in.
After a brutal ambush at Perriot's brand camp, Penryn is bound to a tree and beaten. Old Jase Howard arrives with a posse of cowboys and seeks revenge as the brand desperados flee toward the Rio Grande, while Penryn contemplates vengeance and escape.
A woman asks a corner drug store clerk for directions to Dr Surcoure the noted stuttering specialist. The clerk supplies a card and confirms the doctor has long been in practice and has cured many nearby. The exchange reveals curiosity about cost and duration of treatment. Weatherly Telegraph reports on glycerin and danger in Bradford era notes.
A Detroit Free Press extract recounts a six foot determined con artist in a Michigan village who used a fake army enlistment racket. He lured brokers, demanded a retainer, and staged dramatic acts to pass medicals. He boasted of fleecing others while never serving, pocketing $2000 as a retainer before being exposed.
A London Mail note recalls Dr Pritchard visiting the high court of justiciary and being told he might one day be hanged there. Years later, in the dock, he faced death for poisoning his wife and mother in law. The item also mentions England’s judges and Charles I era wigs.
An assaying expert compares prices of precious metals with rarer elements. Barium and gallium are notably costly per pound and ounce, with gallium at 3250 dollars an ounce, while aluminium now rivals common metals in production cost. The piece challenges the public view of precious metals.
The item recounts Delaunay the Paris Observatory director drowning with companions near Cherbourg in 1873 after a squall, notes his fear of water, and recalls a tale of fate and safety measures. It then moves to musings on crow speech and ornithological interpretation, a brief Lippincott quotation about crows, and ends with a joke about a newspaper man in heaven and an African west coast voyage remark about secondhand stovepipe hats on sale.
A young foreigner newly arrived in London did not attend a dinner in his honor, explaining he was not hungry. Friends and family had arranged the event, but his absence prompted a candid retort about appetite and obligation.
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