17 Dec 1927
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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Dec 17, 1927
Page
1
Christmas 1927 at Everngam s offers vests bloomers step ins princess slips chemises of rayon silk in pastel shades. Describes fine texture durability easy washing no ironing and tailored fit as foundation garments. Prices range from 1 to 3 50.
Brighten Baby's Xmas with a dainty dress cap sweater and bath set. Explore stockings comb set robes and slippers and more in the Gift Shop on the Second Floor. For 30 years the store has sold only quality merchandise.
An advertisement details hand embroidered handkerchiefs in cambrics linens and laces from 10c to 50c with colored linens wide or narrow lace edges. Men s linen pongee and rad ium silk handkerchiefs 25c to 1.00 with hand drawn threads colored borders and fine fabrics described. Also tailored pull ons with embroidered designs and kid like feel, Kayser and Hansen brand, plus various colors. Wide range of fine stockings, silk or satin styles, gift ideas in glassware brass china leather and more, with parcel post wrapping offered.
Advertises a fur coat sale offering first quality furs at a reduced price with wide selection. All women's and girls coats and dresses marked at the same 4 off reduction. Hurry to buy now before Xmas.
One brown mare nine years old in foal to Belgian stallion Gold Leaf. A large sale of furniture and home items including dining set chairs rockers bedstead mattress organ rug settee bookstand tables clock kitchen table cupboard linoleum range washing machine lamp pictures dishes and more items.
The Peoples Bank Denton Maryland announces its annual stockholders meeting in Denton at the banking house on Tuesday January 10 1927 between 1 and 8 p m to elect directors for the ensuing year. J Frank Wright cashier.
A newspaper promotion offers readers a continuous journal subscription to avoid missing stories and stay informed. The pitch emphasizes steady access to daily coverage and ongoing updates for loyal subscribers.
In Latrasse County, Boss Peter Dooley confronts Mrs. Gertrude Foster the county register of deeds over a second term as public complaints mount. After a tense visit to the courthouse, he is treated to a cordial lunch at Foster’s home, where he observes her family and the political alliances around Dongola coal lands.
A Nigerian community auto roof project shows every male villager joining to raise a single conical roof for a new home. Men gather from across the village, sourcing slender stalks, trimming them, and binding them with hoops to form a watertight, vented roof. The process is cooperative, social, and spans generations as neighbors collaborate with a holiday mood while ensuring each house is protected from sun and rain.
A reflective musing on how many sports rely on a ball. The author ponders whether the ball predates the wheel as humanity’s prime tool, suggesting that play and business interplay in early invention. It questions what modern sport would be without the ball and frames the ball as foundational to games.
A quote notes that once a writer proves originality, he gains license to take from others’ writings at discretion. The remark attributes the idea to Ralph Waldo Emerson, reflecting on ethical boundaries in creative work.
A reflective line suggests that few images deserve enduring fame as they pass through generations until the colors fade from the canvas. The excerpt uses a Hawthorne-esque tone to muse on art and memory.
A fragment from Vear son’s Weekly notes a peculiar line about timing a cart and a claim of standing still for 42 minutes on a road, reflecting a quirky, informal publication item without broader context.
Mary Carman faces a financial crisis after learning her son Fred plans to marry Helen Branch. She posts a boarders notice to survive, inviting Peg Payne and Scotchy, two sisters, to rent a room at ten dollars a week. Peg falls ill but Helen helps, and Fred returns to discuss starting a business with his savings. The trio’s arrangement ends with Fred and Helen joining Mary in the old house.
Gilbert Seldes argues in The Saturday Evening Post that the middle class is a modern social force. He notes the term bourgeois maligned in France, where it once meant town citizen and free man. French romantics attacked bourgeois complacency to provoke change.
In Dieppe French women over 60 perform heavy portering in fish markets and on the beach carrying 150 to 200 pound stones on their backs. They move stones from boats to markets and beaches to dumps, then export to England for porcelain manufacture. Readers observe cheerful expressions despite hard labor.
A woman in the provinces writes to composer Beethoven seeking lessons for her daughter after hearing his music. The postal authorities deliver the letter to the house where Beethoven married and died 92 years ago, but the concierge says no such man lived there. The postman sends the misaddressed letter to the dead letter office.
A courtly outfit features a low neckline dress with a long stomacher and an immense maffie around the neck. She wears crino Ine, a small hat, a large ostrich feather fan with a mirror, highly scented gloves, and often a velvet mask. Pumps of scented Spanish leather, red dyed hair, painted rouged face complete the display.
The word Canada derives from the Huron Iroquois term Kanata meaning a collection of huts. In Jacques Cartier era the north side of the St Lawrence from Hochelaga to the gulf was divided into Hochelaga Canada and Saguenay. Here we first encounter the name now tied to the dominion.
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