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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1911
Page
2
Fragmentary newspaper snippet from December 16 1911 page three lists Melvin & Johnson publishers and names Melvin H Johnson as contributors. Details are incomplete but indicate a Saturday morning publication schedule and advertising content.
A long review of service pension legislation argues for changes as costs balloon to about seventy five million dollars annually. It notes wide congressional speech making and calls for fiscal restraint, while detailing Democratic and Republican campaign dynamics for 1912, party chances, and potential state finances and tax policy. The piece also covers imperial announcements in India, the expected 1912 Democratic convention in Baltimore, and Iowa State finances highlighting growth and calls for budget discipline. It concludes with a governor's address urging economy and outline of state revenue sources.
Governor Crothers releases the opening section of his annual message detailing Maryland’s fiscal year 1910 finances. News notes gross receipts of 8.706 million, cash balance of 895 thousand, and a year ending excess of 596 thousand. Net debt stands at 3.735 million after bond assets and sinking funds, with potential relief from railway annuity values.
Republicans mobilize for January 9 inauguration of Mr. Goldsborough with large ward club turnouts. Special cars and boats are being chartered to Annapolis, led by Union League, Eighth Ward, and Log Cabin clubs. Predicts crowded field of applicants for appointments and a push to curb legislative expenses through controlled employment and open session reforms.
A Baltimore correspondent reports Maryland politics focus on a three member State Commission to be elected by the Legislature. Key figures include J Fred C Talbott and Lee support for Senate leadership with Speaker contest among Osborne Marbury and Dinkins. Debate over Wilson ballot law and educational testing continues amid party divisions and regionally varied views.
Baltimore hosted a gathering of governors and notable figures including Representative Underwood chairing the House Ways and Means Committee. He urged progressiveness with fiscal conservatism and critiqued Taft on Sherman Anti-Trust law while Willard of the Baltimore and Ohio emphasized railroad earnings restrictions. Speaker Champ Clark Governor Crothers and other governors spoke. Governor Judson Harmon of Ohio attended the immigration conference at Emerson.
Thurlow Weed recounts refusing to publish Daniel Webster's United States bank speech despite newspaper support. He cites Andrew Jackson's opposition to the bank and a sentence in Jackson's reply that Webster could not answer. Judge Ambrose Spencer questions him, then leaves, marking Weed's stance against reprinting.
The author describes how elven Brownies or Little People inspired his best work in dreams. He recounts dreaming a scene of Hyde's transformation at a window, which he later split into two parts and developed while awake. The tale links unconscious mythic forces to the writing process and the double nature theme.
Police in Cupar Fife are shocked after William Houston reports shooting his father and driving the gunman to confess. Investigators find the elder man dead with a gun beside him, the youth believed insane.
A collage of light magazine quips and literary bits rides alongside a brief anecdote about a woman delivering a poem about My Father's Barn to a publisher. The excerpt riffs on ambition and aviation with humor from Puck and Ladies' Home Journal.
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