17 Dec 1910
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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Dec 17, 1910
Page
1
A tailor made suit for ladies or a nice suit for gentlemen is recommended. A sweater or new gloves are suggested, with a large line and variety of styles and colors. A full stock of furnishings will be pleased to show them.
A Chambers Journal recount of migratory locusts sweeping dry regions from Europe and Egypt to Syria and Morocco, with South Africa and South America in their path. It describes the cloudlike invasion, the eating frenzy on crops and poultry, the impact on eggs and grass, and the stepwise advance followed by a described trench chore to smother young hoppers.
General Falcon arrives in New York to buy 2000 Winchester rifles for a Colombian revolution. Kelley schemes with crooks to stage a gun deal while Mrs. O Brien’s Hotel Espanol becomes a comic crossroads of disguise. In the end the “arms” plot collapses into a marriage scheme and a hotel purchase.
In a witty exchange Battersby laments modern marriage as mass market, longing for old courtship romance. The counterpart counters with a literal twist, noting the beloved weighs 200 pounds, a blunt humorous jab in a Cleveland Pinto Dealer line.
In Vote Mart a city council member wore a ready made suit with its price tag still on. A colleague teased him about it and he showed signs of distress. The remark prompted the question of whether he feared public opinion or lobbyists would think the suit reflected his charges.
Report from Hittsburg Vost describes a peculiar ruse where four players grab two bats before reaching the plate. The plan aims to make one bat appear stronger. The characters discuss exploiting a biscuit at their boarding house as part of the scheme.
Seen in a Dream recounts Professor Hilprecht of the University of Pennsylvania in 1893 resolving a puzzling assemblage of agate fragments. A dream revealed how Assyrian priests carved a votive cylinder into three earrings for their god, linking two fragments into a continuous inscription.
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