23 Dec 1922
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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1922
Page
1
A holiday preview highlights Vanity Fair lacy crepe de chine night gowns and chemises and a full line of Munsingwear silk vests and bloomers. The write up notes festive, pretty options that spill from a Christmas box.
Suits for Gaby with a sweater ging pants cap and mittens in tan and brown provide warm fleecy protection for winter. Prices listed from four fifty to five fifty in rh.
Handsewn satin quilted slips for women in rose pink blue and lavender feature warm quilted insoles. Also offered are brown kid slippers with wool lining and leather bottoms in family sizes and felt slippers for children in blue pink and red sizes 3 to S.
The best choice is a pair of Australian wool blankets white with borders in blue or pink or plaids in blue and white pink and white and red and black. Sizes 72x84 inches. Weight 4 3/4 to 5 1/2 pounds. Priced at
A short list highlights reliable gift ideas for Rew, focusing on thoughtful choices that suit varied tastes. Each item offers practical appeal, from timeless keepsakes to useful gadgets, ensuring a pleasing presentation and user-friendly appeal.
With such a beautiful assort ment to choose from you will have no trouble finding the shirt to please him. Plain pin striped percales colored poplins silk and linen mixtures silk striped madras Japanese crepes. Packed in individual boxes for your convenience. Prices $1.50 to $5.00.
Our Hosiery section presents a wide range of sheer silk stockings plain or patterned with clocks, silk and cotton blends, and silk and wool mixes in diverse patterns and shades to meet all needs.
Polly Andrews and Clarence Judson plan fall nuptials while Ruth Parkman charms both George Taylor and Clarence. A jealous duel on the Ashville road ends with Ruth eluding the fray, Clarence driving away to New York, and a twist of marriages as Polly wed elsewhere and Ruth secretly marries Wille Carpenter.
The article traces progress from ancient Roman frame suspension to steel springs. It notes Alexander Severus and a two-pole body, then Edward Karpp’s 1625 steel spring patent, the Bruette mounted carriage, and the shift to transverse and elliptical springs. Variants like cantilever and belt springs evolved, enabling modern comfortable riding.
Letitia, a twenty year old who has long served as Dawson’s hired girl, contemplates becoming a housekeeper. Tom Dawson reveals his love and plans to finish his farming studies to marry her, prompting Letitia to decide whether to follow romance or ambition. She slips a note to Tom and mysteriously destroys a book of etiquette in the fireplace.
An 1859 summary of Charles Darwin's Origin of Species indicating that all current Earth species descended from one or a few original forms. It notes natural selection shaping variation, with organs adapting to life conditions, leading to new species as diversity grows.
A woman at Willesden asks a magistrate to silence a neighbor. The magistrate quips that only a court order could stop persistent talking, noting the woman's lifelong pattern of similar behavior.
A court records a curling case where a ball forced a peer to pardon a prisoner he had arrested, due to mistaking the peer for a commoner. The incident highlights legal limits on arrest and royal privilege in England.
A fragmented note recalls a prominent county figure once seen as lonely and overlooked by peers. The reminiscence hints at his home town return and the town’s mixed memories of his past stature.
Automatic daylight powered lighthouse on the Swansea coast operates as sunlight fades the lamp ignites through chemical action. At dawn the lamp extinguishes as light returns, marking a simple automated system dependent on UV illumination and chemistry.
The passage details wide eye diversity across life forms from two eyes in most vertebrates to thousands in some invertebrates. It notes dragonflies with about 10 000 eyes, spiders and scorpions with clusters, starfish and sea urchins with eye tips, scallops along the mantle edge, and marine worms with scattered eyes connected to nerve cords, while lowest forms lack eyes yet sense light.
The Keokuk dam spans the Mississippi from Keokuk Indiana to Hamilton Illinois and is billed as the world's largest power dam. It operates 15 turbine generators driving power to St. Louis and smaller Illinois Iowa Missouri cities. A turbine wheel weighs 65 tons and future units will reach 30, producing about 200000 horsepower.
A Tejas innovator unveils a portable oil refinery mounted on railroad cars designed for rapid relocation between oil fields. The concept promises on site processing, reduced transport, and potential efficiency gains for field operations.
In Indonesia the Java highland shows an oval hollow near a mountain summit, about 35 feet deep and half a mile wide, filled with deadly carbonic acid gas. The site, called the Valley of Death or Poison Valley, has bones of tigers, pigs, deer, birds, and humans scattered on the ground, and explorers rarely enter its borders.
A brief aphorism from B. Taylor notes leadership begins with self direction. The maxim cautions would be leaders to first model the behavior they seek, implying personal discipline precedes guiding others.
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