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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1917
Page
6
A Cleveland Plain Dealer piece urges housewives to collect waste paper for sale amid strong demand. It describes a simple baling method using a storebox, twine, and a cloth sling to compress paper into bales, with guidance on daily deposits and tying, noting magazines and newspapers can be bundled.
The Nashville Banner comments on Champ Clark’s corn use advice and a New York Sun essay praising cornbread. It notes corn bread remains a daily staple for many Southern people, urban and rural, including hot muffins and eyebread, challenging Northern views of Southern eating.
Old Saybrook correspondence notes ashore influx of soft-shell and rock crabs along with clackfish during a weekend storm. West and southwest gales pushed brackish canners ashore, weighing from half to two pounds. Fishermen recall a surge unseen in decades, altering regular shore activity.
A fragment from Lansdale Pa Reporter contains dialog about a man just freed from prison adjusting to public life and a homecoming from congress. Other vignettes touch on travel, ethics of love, and a quip comparing war to releasing a genie with a corked bottle.
This article explains plant fats in seeds and the body fat types. it notes fats should comprise a third of diet and mentions a popular beverage containing fat. It describes three main fat types stearin palmitin and olein and that fats yield glycerin used in explosives. it compares fat content in mutton loin to other joints and locates fat in marrow and adipose tissue.
Investigators warn that the Alinos, indigenous to Lokkardy on Hokkaido, are dwindling to about 20,000. The bear hunting culture persists though bears and people fade, with tattoos and sun worship noted as traditional traits amid government aid failing to reverse trends.
A Philadelphia Ledger item reports 6 to 14 year old pupils at Friends' Select School Media Pa answering 100 questions on current events and science. The quiz covers topics from coal shortages and shipbuilding growth to the Statue of Liberty, German peace notes and bridges in New York City.
An American trained Englishborn official, Sir Albert Stanley, rises in Lloyd George's cabinet. Born in England and raised in the United States, he earned American business training and Cornell University education. He led electric railways in Detroit and New Jersey and headed London's underground system, handling vast passenger volume and substantial income, at age forty-one.
An old dealer, Old Farmer Spuds, bragged about selling a crock figurine horse for 40 dollars. He candidly admitted the mare has two faults: it escapes to grass for a week before capture and, once caught, isn’t worth catching. The quip appears in the Chicago News.
A janitor at a public school discovers a chalked instruction on a blackboard reading Find the greatest common denominator. He quips that the phrase is “lost again,” implying a recurring misplacement of teachers notes.
The article extols Constantinople as a world city of the middle ages, noting its seven hills strong position, dual sea land assaults, and a culture that shaped Eastern and Western life. It highlights streets, public buildings, theaters, baths, and arts, arguing that many works in southern Italy and Sicily trace to or come from Constantinople.
A Connecticut Yankee in South Carolina during the Civil War era paid off debts with cheap Confederate money and invested in land, eventually owning half the county while his heart lay with the South. Gen Edward S Godfrey recalls the tale from the Ku Klux days. Special eyeglasses for divers use lenses to correct underwater vision by adjusting light refraction.
Nicholas II forced the Duma to form and issued a 1905 manifesto calling a 1906 meeting. Elections occurred in March and April 1906, with opening on May 10. A turbulent session followed, and the assembly met in March 1907 before dissolution on June 16, 1907. A new assembly was elected in 1912 for a five year term.
The speaker asks if they will raise vegetables and replies with humor about replacing a rubber tree in the hall with a potato plant, expressing pleasure in the gardening plan. The exchange highlights a playful household scene centered on a garden hobby.
The data list global populations and dairy industry figures from the early 20th century. Tokyo and Japan total populations are given, along with U S and state dairy factory counts, creameries, wheat production, and dairy cow totals. Historical occupational trends for married women are noted.
London Chronicle notes that Apostle spoons sold in 12 piece sets with a master spoon, many examples changing hands now. Corpus Christi Cambridge sets feature a St Paul on the thirteenth spoon. Early pieces date to Henry VII. Pierpont Morgan paid £4,000 for the earliest. A Charles I spoon brought £34 in London.
A short exchange centers on a woman and her electrician lover. He cannot grasp why a decided negative feels positive to her, seeking a deeper reason for her rejection of his proposal. The fragment hints at unconventional thinking and emotional resilience.
An English inventor created a machine to pass fabrics under a microscope while exposing both surfaces to strong electric lights from above and below, a device intended to test textile reactions.
An article notes that Meerschaum mining is a major industry in Asia Minor and that about 4 000 Aboriginals in Queensland are being educated under government contract. It also states vessels cruising at 12 knots per hour are immune to submarine attacks since submarines travel only eight or nine knots.
Farmer S B Kitchen announces a public sale at two miles from Burrsville on the Denton road starting 10 a m. The items include four cattle two Jersey cows a Guernsey cow one black mare aged 12 and a four year old mare along with heifers calves and farm implements such as wagons plows cultivators drag and wagon springs. Household goods include a cook range stove oil heater a churn and a cream separator. Terms: cash on sums under 10 and credit for amounts over 10 with a note and approved security payable at Peoples National Bank of Denton. Sale day only until terms met.
Move to a smaller farm prompts public sale at the Medford Farm near Chuptank. Listings include stock and implements to be offered on the farm where the seller currently resides. Sale aims to liquidate farming household assets and equipment.
Thursday December 20 1917 at 10 30 o clock sale includes Ten head Grade Gurnseys eight years to six months six fresh and four with calf by side and three due before Jan 1 1918 Horses one team of heavy work mares seven and 15 years old one mule one mare Plorn J 4 years old Hogs seven head 100 to 125 pounds and ten pigs 40 to 60 pounds Farm implements two wagons one one horse wagon one double carriage grain drill 60 tooth drag two walking cultivators Moline gangstow three horse Syracuse plow two horse Syracuse plow Olno sulky cultivator Wonder butter churn four gallon capacity and more Terms cash under 10 credit nine months with secured notes payable at The Provident State Bank of Preston
Under a power of sale in a mortgage from Frank W. Votava to William I. Zeigler now assigned to T. Alan Goldsborough the assignee will sell at public auction in Denton Maryland on a 1917 date between 2 and 4 PM. The property lies in the First Election District on the south side of the Ingleside to Henderson road known as Cutler's Delight and includes a nearly new eight room frame dwelling a large barn and other outbuildings.
Having rented a smaller farm the owner will sell on the farm known as the Clough farm located on the road from Saulsbury’s school house to Thawley’s Church in Tuccka Hoe Neck One day mare good worker One black mare a good worker One black mule a splendid worker can’t hitch him wrong Four good milch cows all coming fresh in early spring Still milking One Holstein bull 2 years old fine size Four nice shouts
Beginning at 10 o clock a m the following property includes a two horse wagon a Dearborn duplex with nine inch arms a Deering mower and binder a Hay Tedder cultivators seed tools plows wagons and harnesses plus household goods like oak bureaus beds chairs and a sewing machine Auction notes state cash for amounts 310 and under and two months credit on larger sums with approved notes payable at bank Property not to be removed until terms are met William G Wooters I P Covey Auctioneer
One day mare eight years old and one year old mare nine years old two mules aged seven and nine twelve cows aged four to nine years and good milkers two shoats about sixty pounds each all from single sale listing for auction description types and ages included
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