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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Dec 31, 1921
Page
6
Scotland Yard Chief Inspector Kane investigates the disappearance of Epstein and a scream on Grafton Street. In a dim parlor a chest reveals Epstein's body, killed by a thrust from a hairpin with blood, leading to Mrs. Epstein's penniless life sentence for murder.
Annie Smith discovers Roger Gray is torn between her and Lucile Barton the new milliner. Louise plot twists lead to a seaside picnic theft and a cottage kitchen cure, with Annie shining as hostess while Luelle feigns chic indifference. Roger pursues Annie as Lucile’s plans falter.
The piece urges developing tight habits to automate life and cultivate right attitudes to overcome toil. It emphasizes rising within business to avoid heavy tasks and letting youth handle the hustle while older leaders direct from above.
Brown shows off a burn and proclaims success while Louise reports Annie and Roger are engaged and plan a honeymoon in a cottage. The falrouette muses on elegant coffee cakes amid a table full of chatter.
A Detroit News note describes common washerwoman superstitions about washing on Fridays and Good Friday. It links Friday washing to death predictions, marriage luck, and danger from upside down shirts, while noting cross-tied laundry as a safety measure and fortune for passing a basket of freshly laundered clothes.
A man sharpening an ax on an emery wheel drove a steel fragment into his eye. twelve miles from a doctor he used a telephone receiver with the diaphragm removed and an electromagnet to generate current. He then magnetized a needle and drew the steel fragment from his eye, using magnetic attraction.
Death Gulch, a narrow rocky ravine in Yellowstone, was found in 1888 after five bears, an elk, and numerous other creatures were found dead on a level shelf. A visiting scientist tested the air and found rock outlets emitting poisonous gases including sulphureted hydrogen and carbon dioxide in dangerous amounts.
Junior loved the book’s fables and bold illustrations. Aunt Mae advised him three times to turn to the back, but he slammed the book in frustration and quipped that the book has two backs.
A quip from Pearson's Weekly notes that a caterpillar is the most voracious of lying things, claiming it will eat about six hundred times its weight in a month, a striking image for readers.
Household experts warn shelf paper traps filth and invites insects into closets. Paint shelves for a hard smooth finish and seal with enamel. Wipeable with a damp cloth. For color, consider blue or soft green enamel to suit decor.
A new glass reportedly immune to sudden temperature changes is described by Popular Science Monthly. It uses two semimetallic substances with different expansibility points fused as nested tubes to create a rigid, break resistant glass.
Farmer Corntessel discusses his son Josh in a cautious reply about wages. The farmer says Josh draws wages but questions whether he truly earns them, reflecting skepticism about his employment status. The quotation captures a rural voice debating labor and income.
In a boarding house tale set in New York, Myra grows attached to Merton who claims the engagement ring on his fourth finger is for a future wife. He reveals the ring is for a phantom fiancée from India, planned to secure a home for Myra, prompting jealousy from Sadie Thompson and emotional upheaval before Myra realizes the ruse and finds relief in the truth.
An excerpt shows Merton asking anxiously about a real fiancé and a sum of money while Myra nods in quiet happiness, signaling a developing romantic plot. The fragment suggests social and financial tensions underlying a budding relationship.
Sable Inland or Graveyard of the Atlantic lies about one hundred miles off Nova Scotia’s southern coast. The sandy island, twenty miles long and one mile wide, has seen more than two hundred wrecks near Cape Subtle. It hosts a life saving station, lighthouse, and telegraph, with cranberry bogs and a hardy pony herd. The Canadian government has planted trees to bind shifting soils.
The text argues furniture should primarily fulfill its function. A chair, sofa, table, and cupboard serve concrete needs for comfort and storage. Aesthetic beauty is secondary, to be pursued only after ensuring objects fulfill their intended purpose.
The Chicago Journal contrasts gormand and gourmet, noting gormand means a glutton and undisciplined eater while gourmet denotes a refined connoisseur. Both terms come from French, with cooking origins traced to Italians and Romans, the great eaters in history.
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