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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1917
Page
6
A Paris correspondent notes Clemenceau’s generous charity of free medical advice to the poor. His skin clinic serves many, and in one incident he joked with a patient seeking aid for his widowed sister to obtain a post mistress job at Clermont, highlighting his blunt, wary humor.
A cattle dealer in a western state uses a motorcar to move large herds at night to reduce heat distress. He drives ahead with a searchlight and horn to keep the herd moving, noting motor use in roundups may replace the traditional cowboy image in future scenes.
An English report notes height effects begin at 10 000 feet and intensify by 27 000 feet, with cold and oxygen deprivation as main issues. It mentions no engine heat based warming system for passengers, and aviators carry oxygen in a container to mix as needed. Future high altitude flight could bring bends-like risks from extreme pressure shifts.
A heavy snow and hail storm trapped several hundred climbers atop a mountain crest after over 20,000 had ascended in two days. Refuge huts proved vital as relief teams could not reach the site due to ice and telegraph outages. Food supplies became a worry but all adventurers reportedly descended safely once weather eased. Telecommunication wires were destroyed and will be buried before next season.
The article notes Jerusalem fell under Egypt's sultanate after 1244 and was later conquered by Selim I who acquired the caliphate. Suleiman the Magnificent rebuilt the famed city walls, the present fortifications, while prior walls were repeatedly destroyed. It recalls Titus destruction in 70 CE under Emperor Vespasian as the city’s greatest devastation.
Two U S revenue collectors visited a Chinatown store in New York and found a duck imported with opium stuffed inside. A warrant was issued for Lam Suey, a salesman at 80 Mott Street, on charges of trafficking in opium under federal law.
A historical look at eel biology traces long standing myths about how eels reproduce. It notes scientists in the early 20th century gradually uncovered eel life cycles, placing breeding grounds between the Faroe Islands Azores and Bermuda and describing the deep sea mysteries that persist as knowledge grows.
Representative Thomas Heflin of Alabama is praised for a tale about a lynching told to friends at the New Willard hotel. He recalls a young Alabama lawyer and a mob executing a colored man, then threats to the witness who refuses to speak, concluding the culprit “got off mighty light.”
The death penalty remains in all states except Kansas, Maine, Minnesota, Rhode Island, Washington and Wisconsin. Michigan limits death to treason. Washington abolished in 1913, restored 1878. Colorado abolished 1897, restored 1901. Indiana New York Nebraska Ohio Pennsylvania Arkansas Vermont and Virginia use electrocution. Nevada allows hanging or shooting as options.
A world traveler notes San Blas once the great western Spanish stronghold now a small Mexican town along a flat coastal plain. The cobbled main street, adobe houses, and chinamen run cafes frame a plaza, market, and tiny thatched huts mingle with gardens and hibiscus.
A nostalgic survey of places near Dorking Burford Bridge and other sites where Defoe Keats Meredith Tennyson Shelley Byron Coleridge Wordsworth Browning Burns penned works. It notes the Cottaze Westhumble Lane and surrounding cottages as literary hubs and their idyllic settings inspiring classic poems and novels.
A strange accident at a Buffalo area aviation field involved an airplane colliding with a stationary steam roller on turf. The nose struck the roller, breaking the propeller and wrenching the landing gear, with the radiator smashed but no serious injuries reported.
The Firburgh Credit Bulletin laments that professionals like lawyers carpenters doctors judges and preachers all escape consequences for errors while a credit man faces harsh penalties. It contrasts blame and accountability across trades with a jab at the unclear induction blamed on electricians. The piece portrays the credit man as uniquely doomed to misfortune.
A Russian geological expedition plans to explore the Juban region in the South Caucasus seeking coal and tare minerals. The mission will be led by the noted geologist BM Androussov.
The City of London plans to close forty or fifty churches in the near future until after the war to release clergy for national war work. With about 20 000 residents in the central city, only eight churches would remain open for local use if these plans proceed.
A tale cited by Lord Cromer in the Quarterly Review recounts Ismail Pasha the khedive of Egypt anxious about tooth extraction. A European dentist offers laughing gas, tests on a sentry and a slave girl, then withdraws with a heavy bill, a possibly apocryphal twist.
A writer surveys Russian ikons as devotional images with gilded faces and hands, noting the Iberian Mother of God chapel built by Czar Alexis and the Mount Athos guide, then traces the historical use of "hands" to mean workers in English, from Evelyn to Toynbee, and its reception as Yankeeism by the London Dairy Chronicle.
The Continent reports rising cigarette addiction among Chinese children including babies. Women in Chefoo organize a Woman's Christian Temperance union to combat the trend as candy peddlers sell pennies’ worth cigarettes to toddlers outside kindergartens and even well-off women’s babies in nurses’ arms are given cigarettes to quiet them.
The toy industry worldwide faces readjustment due to war. Countries that once imported from belligerent nations seek new suppliers or in-house production. Spain is quick to seize the changed demand and bids to expand into Latio-Americo markets.
The St Paul Pioneer Press notes rising demand for locally made skis across Arizona and California, with Canada showing immense orders. The article explains materials Louisiana yellow pine, Florida hickory, ash and maple, plus production steps from planing to marking, grooving, steaming, bending the prow and final painting. Ski usage has surged in the United States and Canada, including government purchases for rangers and officials.
The article extols Sicily as a land of romance and vivid history, comparing its dramatic nature to a living tapestry. It cites ancient and medieval figures from poets to rulers, then shifts to a humorous Sun day school anecdote about a boy and his father debating a wood-saw wager and a moral about diplomacy.
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