26 Dec 1903
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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1903
Page
1
A wartime reminiscence details a retreat from Kiowa riders at Fort Belknap and a daring night dash by Strawberry rider and lieutenant through barrancas to safety. A second tale recounts Albani fearing room number thirteen in Chicago, prompting a hotel room swap after a paper prank.
Josephine sits for a haircut as the barber completes the cut. She looks in the mirror and shakes her head, wails that she wants a round smooth top like papa’s, and bursts into tears. The father watches anxiously as the girl longs for his hairstyle.
The account describes Ja cob's ladder at St Helena a steep stairway with more than 700 steps rising at a forty five degree angle. It is the direct route to the hill summit and is traversed daily by hundreds of travelers with some able to climb rapidly without rest.
A New York Times quotation shows a popular dramatist explaining that motive drives plot. He reveals a nursery setting to illustrate why characters act: children on stage, a villain chasing the mother, and a mother tending the child, all to fulfill a commission to include a nursery.
A Dulwich school magazine spoof defines a boarding house landlady as a parallelogram and a single room as a double room. It jokes that a pie can be produced endlessly, clothes never meet, and two meals equal less than a square meal. A London Express quip about a steak ends with a joke of the cook falling ill.
Tommy inspects his aunt Clary’s dress after tea and retirement. His mother asks what’s wrong and he notes dust, recalling Mrs Snips’s remark that Aunt Clary has stood on the shelf twenty years.
In a clipped exchange from the Cincinnati Commercial Tribune, Hustelton brushes off a reporter while learning his wife may be fatally hurt and the clover seed price edge rises a quarter of a cent. The scene depicts the newspaper era's brisk, public bustle.
A meditation on living one day at a time. The text urges planning each morning and pursuing daily endeavors with balance of business and pleasure. It asserts that perfection lies in well doing trifles and that the world offers many good things if sought. The outcome is a secret to a successful and happy life.
A Philadelphia visitor recounts Newfoundland's Beil Newfoundland railway, a vast 640 mile narrow gauge system completed in 1898. The line runs east to west from St John’s to Port aux Basques, with casual management and no guaranteed arrivals or departures, yielding a humorous tale of its unpredictable service. Haydn and His Ring is noted for its anecdote about the composer Joseph Haydn receiving a diamond ring from Frederick the Great to spark ideas, and how he habitually wrote with care using the finest materials.
In a village near Oxford a county councillor presented his son for baptism. When asked for the name the policeman replied Septimus Octavius, sir. The divine noted he was the seventh son but the eighth child and the christening proceeded.
A school board inspector asked a pupil what the earth’s surface consists of and the boy answered land and water. The inspector pressed the idea, asking what land and water make, and the quick reply was mud.
Longfellow, as told by J. Trowbridge, welcomed many visitors including an English guest who declared that since there are no ruins in the country they would come to see VoL and other curious sights.
In Tokyo a curious scene unfolds as an elderly man sits on a smooth ground with piles of colored sand. He pinches sand from each pile into his right hand and swiftly draws a lifelike figure, clothing colored by the sand. The performance displays remarkable dexterity and speed.
A Chicago Journal quip recalls a lawyer who argued that his client was a fool rather than a criminal. The judge’s friend asks what’s the matter and learns the tale: the client’s acquittal followed the lawyer’s sharp portrayal. The anecdote showcases courtroom wit from a railway accident aside.
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