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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1930
Page
2
The message reflects 1930 reflections and optimism for 1931. It expresses faith in the United States to overcome hardship and restore prosperity through confidence courage and optimism. It ends with a wish for readers to have happiness and prosperity in the coming year.
The Journal extends season’s greetings to loyal readers and advertisers. It thanks patrons for their patronage, expresses wishes for blessed happiness and peace, and hopes the year brings prosperity and merriment to all.
The Saturday Evening Post calls for a nationwide push to outlaw reckless drivers in 1931. It urges licensing laws in more states, notes only thirteen states and DC require exams, and supports higher premiums for accident records while rewarding safe drivers. It cautions that most motorists are careful but all pay for the few reckless ones.
Lecturers and writers predicted home decline as cars and jazz emerged. Yet the home adapts, gaining leisure through science and industry. Vacuums, dishwashers expand daily life, radios draw families together, and golf becomes a shared hobby. The home grows stronger through progress.
The passage extols home and family as the enduring gathering place of a group and a repository of human happiness. It traces the home’s rise in modern life, notes intensified competition for domestic roles, and asserts that nature will defend the institution that preserves the human race.
William Linton Andrews recalls letters, photographs, and autographed mementos from early career days in journalism. He laments friends and colleagues drifted by time and war, asking where those Paris era friends Louis and Suzanne ended up and whether their loves endured.
A discussion on eye fatigue from prolonged close work notes that vision tiredness arises from excessive use and imperfect eye balance. Rest by looking up, glancing at distance, and closing eyes briefly can rejuvenate accommodation and convergence muscles.
A Christmas blessing to the ill and shut-ins offering sincere wishes for better health in the New Year. The note hopes for consolation in faith and the return to robust well being for those enduring hardship.
We thank friends and neighbors for their sympathy and floral tributes at the death of our little girl Betty Lou Towers from Mr. and Mrs. Carl H. Towers.
A famed engineer recalls frank French admissions on security, armaments, pacifism, and European federation hopes, noting France's wealth and war-readiness. It also surveys Austrian elections, disarmament talks, and Einstein urging civil service refusal in peace to protest compulsory military service.
A discussion on resisting war highlights moral duty and the idea that 2 percent of the population could disrupt prisons by opposing war. The piece links Armageddon to peace and recalls ancient battles as excavations progress under Dr Breasted at the Oriental Institute, University of Chicago, noting a purchase price of 3500 dollars.
A family Christmas plan unfolds with Grandma Briggs invited for a festive dinner. The piece lists a complete menu and Norwegian style table decor, then shifts to local marriages and weddings in Denton, Maryland, noting details of brides, grooms, and venues, followed by obituaries and upcoming church services and notices.
The Maryland Theatre Baltimore opens a nine act R K O vaudeville bill for one week starting Monday December 29 headlined by Chic Sale. Acts include Ann Suter Helen Brow Albertina Rasch dancers Neville Fleeson Sibylla Bowhan and a musical comedy act Following the Stars. Daily matinees plus a New Year’s Eve midnight show. Sale noted for rustic character sketches and stage skills. Coal-nut stove egg coal ad by H W Hughes Denton.
The eighth district’s well known farmers have moved to Hobbs after selling their farm to Frank L. Collins. Captain Corkran’s weak health prompts hope for recovery now off farm duties. Denton National Bank promotes Ormond W. Downes to cashier at Peoples National Bank, replacing George L. Wallace who resigned. James A. Trazzare resigns as teller, to take Downes’s former post. Bennett Todd becomes teller at Peoples, William H. Nuttle becomes bookkeeper in Todd’s place.
A college girl's account from a government school in Minnesota describes meals, sanitation, discipline, and cultural contrasts. She details hiking, the bench punishment, girls rooms, dress and cosmetics, entertainment, and recurring visits to town for band concerts ice cream socials and dances. She notes mixed progress among tribes and the enduring dignity of the students amid challenges.
An assortment of moral maxims precede a substantial feature on Lawrence Tibbett. The American baritone headlined the Atwater Kent Radio Hour on Sunday December 28, with two requested pieces from Goethe and Kern. The article highlights his diverse repertoire, career rise, and planned program including operatic and popular numbers.
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