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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1889
Page
4
The Saturday December 21 1889 issue of the Denton Journal and editor Howard Melvin presents local notices, brief items, and community updates from Denton and surrounding areas. Specific events, people, and places are recorded in typical late 19th century local newspaper style.
A San Francisco Argonaut excerpt describes how incarcerated women in prison disguise losses and hardships with hair styling rouge and makeshift cosmetics. It details hair removal, use of fat for shine, chewed fabric to simulate blush, underskirt tricks, and a theft of window glass for solace, noting the limited audience of governors and chaplains.
A Lewiston child declares intellectual independence over a new flannel shirt. He endures itching, then refuses to wear the garment, insisting he will never go to school again. His mother capitulates at tea, gifting soft undershirts to spare future tickles.
A humor filled reminiscence from music shops where clerks improvise customers names when memory fails. Tales of nicknames like Miss Diamonds and Miss Elocution Crank surface as clerks jot charges to imagined identities. Light anecdotes end with playful quips about songs and flirtations.
New York News reports on how big dry goods houses feed their clerks. Lunch is a regimented, mid day break. many stores provide two staffed rooms for meals, with soups, tea, meat and bread. Some workers bring from home or share bakery desserts, while top employers offer hot, inexpensive dinners to sustain staff through long shifts.
A quip from Sir Robert Walpole to Queen Caroline recalls her wish to buy St James Park as a royal garden. She asked the cost, he quipped three crowns, meaning the kingdoms of England Scotland and Ireland. The queen wisely declined the plan.
A New York Herald quote reports a big butcher asking how to sharpen a carving knife in Fulton Market. The expert advises maintaining a 20 to 25 degree angle on the steel and drawing from heel to tip with light pressure to preserve edge.
An 1880 Montana encounter recounted by a hunter who shoots three deer in succession. A buck and two does are killed or mortally wounded. one doe dies from a tree-impaled bullet, another from ice, and the buck is later finished by Piegan riders. The tale ends claiming the hunter’s shots achieved the trio’s deaths.
A 72 year old woman with snow white hair for twenty years showed rapid darkening patches after long use of jaborandi extract and pilocarpine for kidney disease from Oct 1886 to Feb 1888. Similar contrast with darkening hair reported in a 25 year old treated by pilocarpine. authors discuss nervous system influence on hair color and call for corroborating observations from practitioners.
English agricultural journals highlight a rapid rise in fruit cultivation from 90 000 acres in 1839 to 214 000 acres. Despite the expansion, demand remains unmet, with nearly four million bushels of apples imported last year at about £800 000, mostly from America.
At Pera la Chaise cemetery a hearse enters the gate followed by about 150 tall men in black or tights and spangled costumes. They are wrestlers and Hercules of Paris attending the burial of Louis Launay-Lanay from a wealthy family who pursued muscle at fairs and died after hydrophobia from a terrier bite. Meanwhile Prince Kraft Hohelöhe cites a German army tale of a battery lacking ammunition at Chateaudun and gunners marching to ring the Wacht am Rhein while awaiting fresh cartridges.
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