18 Dec 1915
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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1915
Page
1
All sums of ten dollars and under must be paid in cash. For amounts over ten dollars, a credit of six months is offered with a note secured by approved security payable at the Peoples Bank of Denton. J. L. Stevens I. P. Covey auctioneer owner. D. W. Davis clerk. WM. Cro receiving clerk.
Albert R. Neal will sell at public sale on December 20 1915 at 10 a m at the G R Neal farm on the Anderson town to Williston road. Live stock includes two year old black colt and pair of mules. Implements include carriages plows harrows wagons and gearing plus household goods. Terms cash under 10 dollars and credit months on larger sums with note and security. Sale conducted by Leonard Covey as auctioneer.
Tr GompsBoro Bank Goldsboro Maryland December 17 1915 announces closure on Christmas Day December 25 1915 a legal holiday. All paper maturing that day may be paid on the following Monday. Robert Jarrell Jr Cashier.
Don Atherton carts Aunt Celia’s fruit cake in a decorative bandbox and finds a baby inside. A mistaken delivery leads to a police stop, an army officer’s daughter Eleanor Bown, and a budding romance with Don as the pair recount the comic mishap that ends with a hopeful future.
A recent Brighton contest saw a winner keep an eighth ounce of tobacco alight for 103 minutes. An older 1723 Orford scaffold test offered 12 shillings to whoever smoked three ounces first without drinking. Derbyshire records note a club admitting members who could smoke a pound of shag in one sitting using a china pot pipe.
The article traces the old York road as the first great American highway linking New York and Philadelphia. It notes 1711 road chartering, turnpikes in Pennsylvania Connecticut and New Jersey, the 1792 macadam road Philadelphia to Lancaster, 1600 miles of turnpikes by 1811, and how the 1837 panic plus rail and canal expansion ended federal highway work.
A financier named Brocklebank urges Jimpson to settle a one dollar loan from last June. He insists on paying now to restore their friendship and begin anew, expressing mortified shame at the prior omission and offering to play him for stakes to settle the matter. The exchange reflects a tense moral tie between money and friendship.
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