New Year’s Eve Intruder in Snowbound Alley
Grant Barker stealths from a back door in a bathrobe and slippers armed with a stick, pursuing a yellow cat. A tense scene unfolds as his neighbor Rolland Watts confronts him over the dog and cat, a milkman offers casual New Year cheer, and the situation nearly erupts before restraint returns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grant
Humane Society
Uke Rolland Watts
Watts
Teddy
Tarker
Hin
Barker
Sol
Rolland Watts
Euting
Rollund
Rolland
Resolution for the New Year Inspires Kindness
Billy Gibson, vexed by usual New Year goals, dreams of a single lasting resolution. He recalls a mother’s verse about reverence and kindness and declares this gentler path best for the world.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Billy Gibson
Mike
Bly
Billy
Sparrows or Wrens Bring Town to Peach and Billy
Peach Russell and her husband move to a gray compact house in Oakville after marriage. A kindly real estate man helps them, Mrs Duke's warning about wrens proves a ruse, and sparrows invade. A neighbor reveals the prank. after removing sparrows, true wrens return.
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Oakville
Peach Russell
Billy
Bily
Peach
Pate
Mr. Kling
Peable
Mrs Duke
Mrs. Duke
Witte Wrens
Russells
Gray
Lilly
Jim
Mrs. Ross
Stussells
Odd mineral mined only in Utah halts in ash black form
Gilsonite, an odd, asphaltetic mineral unique to Utah, is used in varnish, paint, insulation and ink. Discovered in Ashley Valley after 1878 settlement, it burned with dense black smoke and a tarlike melt rather than ash. Theories cite formation from a synclinal basin and heat distilling oils from carbonaceous sandstone in Uintah and Green River shales.
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Gilson
Bureau of Mines
Utah
Ashley Valley
Vialley
Green River
Unavailing Plea Quote Attributed to Ruskin
A historical quotation attributed to John Ruskin states that an ignorance plea cannot absolve responsibility, reflecting a stance on duty and accountability in the face of wrongdoing or negligence. The line emphasizes personal obligation regardless of knowledge.
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Denton Journal
Melvin & Johnson, Inc
Clara'Agee Hays
Rolland Hy
By Katherine Edelman
Stuart
Newacaner Tinton.s
Walsh
Ruskin
Max Chambers
Preston, Md
the Provident State Bank
Preston
Jas. A. Trazzarh
Denton National Bank
Denton, Md
Wenhe Board of Directors
Nuumuby
W. I. Norris
the Peoples Bank
J. Frank Wright
Tur’ Farmers & Merchants State Bank
George W. Beck
Quanta Olds Club
Hie Givill
A. Te
Ing
Dentonational Bank
Denton
Maryland
Reserve Federal System
Denton’s
Lord Calvert
P. & G. Soap
Chipso
California
Barrer
Crook’s
J. A. Trazzare
W. A. Smith
Market St
Willard C. Todd
Williston, Md
J. L. Everngam
M. S
J. ED. Nichols
Howard R. Pritchett & Company
R. B. Rawlings
H. R. Pritchett & Company
Greensboro
West Denton Hatchery
American Metal Weather Strip Co
F.C. Brown
New Dover
Opera House
Diamond State Theatre Corporation
Kenneth G. Faulkner
Marion Davies
William Haines
Charlie Chaplin
Norma Talmadge
John
Gilbert
Douglas Fairbanks
Renee Adoree
Hollywood ‘Studios
Chaplin
Fairbanks
Bill Hart
Mae Murray
Our Gang
Ol’ Gray Hoas
Richard Dix
Ruth Elder
Atlantic Ocean
Moran
Dix
Africa
Charles
Buddy) Rogers
Princeton
Chester Conklin
Mary Tian
Public Service Company
Denton, Maryland
Methodist Episcopal’ Church
Melvine
Wheatley
Bible School
Paul
Jesus
Christ
Epworth League
Sarah Baynard
Mabel Richards
Printing Gall Journal Office
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