14 Dec 1901
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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1901
Page
1
The ad touts freshly stocked departments with new goods and low prices across linen table linen shirts hosiery underwear and shoes. It highlights bargains on linen goods satin damask caps handkerchiefs and menswear with price ranges from a few cents to several dollars and urges customers to visit for savings.
Advertises carpets and matting priced from 28e to 1.25, plus oil cloths window shades and art squares with special bargains. Includes examples shown in rugs and related home textiles.
In a small town the news of Union marching home stirs fear and hope. Brothers Jack and Jim Rarely debate taking confiscated hams left by the Federal victors, wrestle with guilt, and ultimately return the goods after a late night confrontation with their own consciences. The scene contrasts wartime scarcity, family duty, and moral conviction in a postwar moment.
In a New York Times vignette a doctor uses a ticking watch to test a patient’s hearing, only to reveal he forgot to wind it. The gag pivots on the patient’s apparent deafness and the doctor’s embarrassment.
A reader recalls Talleyrand’s sharp reply to a cross eyed questioner after a council session. The statesman asked how things looked and answered, Like your eyes, sir, with a cutting emphasis on his deformity.
A historical note details origins of common vegetables: celery and onions linked to Egypt, parsnip to Arabia, spinach to the region, cucumber from the East Indies, radish to China and Japan, potato to Peru, cabbage wild in Siberia, parsley first known in Sardinia, and garden cross from Egypt and the East.
A Paris parrot named Coco, companion to an elderly English lady, entertains with devout Sunday morning devotions and a dramatic anecdote. Coco mimics a visiting parrot's complex sentence, acting out anticipation and triumph as the guest departs. Forest and Stream recounts this tale of sagacity and showy feigning.
Mrs Wordsworth, famed wife of the English laureate, a celebrated storyteller with a Westmorland accent, recounts a tale about county pride. A newly married couple, Mr H and Miss F from old north country families, attend their first dinner party. The husband halts his wife at the door with the remark that Hs were before Fs, vindicating county proprieties and drawing reactions from the audience.
A woman asks for a hidden engagement for one month to protect a costly prize, while her lover insists on announcing their union. She cites admirers and gifts as reasons, while he vows to gain wealth beside her. An earlier note by Lightning and Willows discusses willow trees rarely struck by lightning.
A sharp critique on intergenerational influence. It argues that young people in a controlled society lose clear sight and original thinking by conforming to elder expectations, eventually becoming stagnant elders who fear independent thought. The piece frames elder instruction as a form of intellectual restraint.
The text surveys Islamic divorce rules citing the Koran and scholars, noting a husband may divorce at will, with limits on re marriages, and contrasting lax practices in parts of the east with rare divorce among Indian Mohammedans. It cites Ibrahim Halebi, Amir Ali, Lane, and Westermarch to illustrate widespread divisive effects on family life and cross regional differences.
A Carlsbad doctor prescribes three cigars daily to a patient who later struggles to quit. The patient argues two might help, while the physician insists on the limit. The patient reveals he began smoking believing the instruction was part of the cure. Tableau says Westminster Gazette.
For years scientists puzzled by the Yakutsk well in Siberia. A Russian merchant began digging in 1828 and, after three years, had penetrated only 30 feet due to permafrost. The Academy later reached 382 feet before abandoning the effort as ground remained solidly frozen. In 1844 soil temperatures at the sides indicated frost to depths over 600 feet.
Eight passengers sat in a southbound express car when one suddenly groaned loudly. Another passenger offered brandy from a flask, and the sick man claimed he was singing, denying any illness. The exchange turned the moment into a humorous misinterpretation.
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