15 Dec 1917
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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1917
Page
1
Retailer highlights practical gift ideas for the holiday season including large bath towels guest towels and face cloths with monogram spaces, wide tie selections in various colors, dice wash cloths 2 for 25 cents, extra length clothing, baby knits and sacks, skating and hockey caps, novelty handkerchiefs, and demonstrations of making pillow tops and bags to suit different ages and needs.
A Philadelphia Ledger excerpt urges readers to view lavish spending as shifting wealth to productive uses. It argues that wasteful purchases from clothing to fine dining move money through the economy, benefiting others, and that keeping funds idle harms progress. The piece praises swift, wise spending over hoarding.
Dr John J Hurley of Boston argues that many cases labeled influenza or grippe are actually sinusitis. He states sinus inflammation arises from pus forming bacteria and that proper treatment is drainage rather than drugs. Minor cases respond to simple opening of passages. surgery is rarely needed.
A reflective piece recalling Tom Bodine and the idea that cities swallow people and return them altered. The author contrasts the young man sent away with hope and the old man returned, broken by poverty and loss, amid enduring social and economic pressures.
Miss Peart MacDonald, economic expert, told Pittsburgh women at Pennsylvania State College home economics that Americans waste soup potential by not using bones and cheaper cuts. She urged clear soups only rarely, and to favor tougher meats for fiber and nutrition over expensive, tender cuts.
The piece argues education should emphasize studying real life facts over heavy books. It notes a growing trend away from textbook learning toward experiential knowledge, citing Michel de Montaigne's essays which advocate practical instruction and critique the confinement of school life.
A narrator recounts caring for a neighbor’s goldfish while they were away. They note high costs from repeatedly replacing dying fish, despite fish food being inexpensive.
Town Topics quotes a poetical line about money talking and then saying goodbye, implying a sardonic take on finances in daily life.
A satirical note claims Bilkins Home is the dearest place on earth and jokes that Wilkins left housekeeping to live at a board. The fragment suggests high costs drive a lifestyle shift.
A chalice dug up from Antioch ruins and now held by art dealers is believed to bear portraits of Christ and apostles. Archaeologist Gustavus A. Elsen dates it to the second half of the first century A D. It was found by Arabs during a well dig in Antioch, Syria, and may imitate Constantine the Great’s Antioch cathedral.
A granite monument raised in memory of British navy engine room heroes stands at Princess Pier Head in Liverpool. The 48 foot obelisk features sculpted engine room staff groups, earth air fire and water figures, a sea globe, flaming suns and a torch surmounting a wreath crowned shaft.
Australia reports 78,600,834 sheep while Canton boosts exports. Japan plans to develop a home steel industry. La Plata lists 12 daily newspapers. Aden exports senna leaves to the United States. New South Wales operates 10 confectionery factories employing 703 workers.
A Canadian commerce report describes Burrinjuck Dam under construction in a narrow gorge between 2000 foot peaks. It will hold 33.38 billion gallons across 41 miles of Murrumbidgee and 15 and 25 miles of Goodrainbee and Yass rivers, supporting about 100000 people and 7000 farms with liberal government aid.
Europeans pay high prices for coal and turn to peat as substitute. Germany’s coal supply from Sweden diminishes forcing railways to run shorter schedules. Peat can be made into cakes for use in proper burners with low ash and smoke. A Maine inventor patented peat briquettes promising heat like charcoal and cheaper than bituminous coal.
Roman Skivickl of Sunderland kept onions when others urged selling. He achieved the high price of $7 per bag of 100 pounds, despite warnings at $3 $4 $5 and $9. Net profit in 1901 was $7,000. this year likely higher, per Northampton Gazette.
An article argues that if Britain seizes German East Africa it would control major soda resources. It cites Lake Magadi near Victoria Nyanza as vast and pure, with surface area around fifty square miles and depths of nine to potentially fifty or more feet. It notes larger soda basins exist in Natron Egagii and Luwa Yamwerle across the border, likely to become British upon victory.
Atlanta plans a large shell factory as wartime production expands while New York theaters adopt monthly war taxes. Buffalo intends to hire women for street railway work. St Louis asserts a leading role in world tire business.
Erwin Hicks waited 30 years at his mountain home gate for a mother who died returning from a village trip. After decades of hopeful vigil, supporters urged him to move on but he persisted until his death. He is buried beside his mother in the local churchyard.
Mr. F. L. Burns estimates 165000 millions English sparrows in the country, far surpassing humans. The essay attributes the bird’s rapid growth to simple, industrious behavior, independence, and lack of interest in politics, medicine, or literature, contrasting it with human society.
A reflection on cherishing a humorist who brings sanity and kindness during his long life. The author credits laughter as a national and human need, noting that the humorist's smile has kept us from worst times, while satire cannot. The piece asserts humor travels beyond borders to uplift peoples.
The London Observer notes how seventeenth century romancers produced sprawling works. Milo de Scudery’s Le Grand Cyrus fills five folio volumes of 500 pages in English, and La Calprenche’s Cleopatre exceeds that length. Parthenissa by Roger Boyle shows early novels delaying introductions well into hundreds of pages.
A string of provocative remarks questions dangers of proximity between a gay young soldier and comely women, hinting at social tensions of gender, sexuality, and perceived threat in a period context. The exchange frames prejudice as a social risk and moral anxiety.
A squad pursuing two criminals in Acton Illinois cornered them in a boarding house. One thief pressed a revolver to the officer’s abdomen and fired twice. The first bullet lodged near the barrel, blocking the second shot and tearing a strip from the barrel, saving the policeman from harm.
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