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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Dec 31, 1927
Page
2
A reflective meditation on the Old Year as a living force with mixed deeds and emotions, praising intellectual curiosity and moral contrasts. It contemplates wealth, fame, and pleasure against Bethlehem’s star, urging the New Year to embrace faith and love guided by the birth of Jesus. The piece ends with a call to the living to answer how the New Year should live.
The piece urges a healthy New Year creed centered on rest exercise and fresh air. It emphasizes cleanliness by soap and water and wholesome eating. It invites readers to adopt a mindful plan for mind and body involving proper rest, exercise, clean living, and careful food choices for a happier year.
A passage urges choosing energy through brown cereals and fruits for growth. It promotes milk and dairy for bones and teeth. The creed promises vigor and keenness to face daily challenges and a sparkling outlook, ending with a cheerful New Year greeting.
The piece argues that Republican boasts of broad prosperity under Coolidge and Mellon are unfounded. It cites Charles M Schwab noting a slack year for Bethlehem Steel and high bank and mercantile failures, with October and November 1927 showing weak factory employment and lower wages. It highlights farming tax foreclosures in Des Moines and praises aviation’s pioneering growth despite obstacles. A reader from San Francisco to Chicago by plane reflects progress amidst challenges.
The narrator relaxes in a parlor car enjoying changing scenery as the train covers 21 hours from San Francisco to Chicago with antelope and wildlife visible along the way. James N. Emery argues to the National Grange that workers spend six weeks to two months annually on taxes, urging tax consciousness for reductions.
Congress plans more work and less talk, urging members to focus on productive action with the public. If lawmakers grasped that work is their strongest bond with citizens, the volume of talk would lessen.
Dr John S Fulton head of the State Department of Health urges Maryland adults to annual health checkups with their doctors. He compares health reviews to business audits, highlighting early detection of illnesses like heart trouble and tuberculosis through regular clinics and routine exams for mothers and schoolchildren. Continuous health reviews aim to prevent suffering and extend life.
The Del-Mar-Va Mortgage Company of Salisbury announces a six percent bond issue for the Del-Mar-Va Peninsula. Bonds in 1 2 3 5 and 10 year maturities in denominations of 1000 500 and 100 are backed by first mortgages on fee simple properties, mostly in Wilmington area towns. Bonds secured to 125 percent of the mortgages. many loans well under 60 percent. Company assets show capital and surplus 136 784 with total resources 372 364 as of Nov 29 1927. Board to consider dividend and increasing paid in capital to 200 000. Nearly 60 percent of the 160 700 bonds already sold have gone to Peninsula banks and trust companies. Subscribe for The Journal.
A flurry of holiday hospitality is noted as Hobbs and Salisbury visitors travel for gatherings. Families including the Cahalls Billings Smiths and Edgells share meals and stays in Greensboro Denton Baltimore Washington and Federalsburg. A Sunday School reorganization is planned for tomorrow morning.
Chestnut trees in the eastern United States face inevitable death from chestnut blight after over two decades of unsuccessful cures. Forest Service studies show chestnut timber in New England and Pennsylvania being replaced mainly by other hardwoods, with New Jersey seeing less desirable species. The loss affects poles, mine timber, tannin production, and interior wood work, though replacement species grow more slowly and extensive planting is not required to fill forest gaps.
Vernon residents report a busy holiday season with travel to Philadelphia Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Several families hosted or visited relatives including the Smiths Luffs Drapers and Wrights while local homes gained improvements and new furnishings.
Ridgely and Claymont residents visited relatives in Delaware and Philadelphia over the weekend and week. Several others, including Mr. Jonas Royer, Mr. A. W. Thompson, and Prof. and Mrs. McBride, hosted or visited family in Wilmington Georgetown Harrington Harrisburg and Philadelphia. illnesses noted include Albert White's recovery and Robert Pippin's continued serious condition.
A Bureau of Home Economics survey of nearly 2000 women outlines why many women choose ready-to-wear over home sewing. Improved style, time savings, and visible results drive purchases, while sewing difficulties, fear of mistakes with silk or wool, and lack of local fabric variety push toward ready-made attire.
L A Douglas Winsale Virginia Leghorns top six week period with 293 eggs, five ahead of Confidence Farm Anacostia entry. Proctor Preston Leghorns sit third with 277 eggs, Toivonen Girard fourth with 269. Best seven day by Parkhurst Rhode Island Reds at 53 eggs. Maryland leaders include Confidence Farm 288, Proctor 277, Maple View Reisterstown 263, Wineke Leghorns 249.
A cryptic newspaper item presents a numbered letter puzzle with hints and steps to solve. It instructs readers to define words by placing letters under numbered positions and to compare lines at the top, promising the solution in the next issue. It references a school division and verbs and phrases as guidance.
Lewis Beach presents The Goose Hangs High with a pro cast on Tuesday January 10 under the Library Committee of the PTA. The show, a long running New York Bijou Theatre hit, targets the pleasure loving youth and their self centered ways with sharp satire.
The Swarthmore Chautauqua is sending an unusually good comedy to Denton as part of its itinerary. The Library Committee of the P. T. A. hopes the play will raise funds for the school library and assist local children while providing the audience with pleasure.
The Baltimore Canned Foods Exchange will run a special train from Baltimore to Chicago via the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad to attend the National Canners' Convention. The train departs Camden Station at 6 30 p m Saturday January 21.
Mrs. T. Clayton Horsey hosted the board club at her Greensboro home on Thursday afternoon while Miss Virginia Horsey hosted friends for a bridge game at the same time.
Scientific note describes continuous microseisms driving Earth's crust motion. Wave periods 4 to 8 seconds, amplitudes tiny, wavelengths 8 to 16 miles, speed about two miles per second. New recording methods reveal tremors over two miles apart, showing microseisms travel independent of wind and weather though cause remains a mystery.
A traveling correspondent recalls watching vultures work along the Ganges near Massacre Ghat during the 1857 mutiny era. A large bird dragged a white object from the water using wind and wing power, finally beaching it on sand while other scavengers joined in a frenzied feeding. The following day a human skeleton lay nearby.
A read of Triassic rocks notes that reported fossil raindrop impressions may instead be pits formed by bubbles in a mud film at the bottom of shallow water. As mud dries, many pits resemble the classic raindrop marks, challenging the rain drop interpretation.
A generation is a single successor in natural descent and spans three generations per century. It also denotes people living in the same period or era, such as the present generation. Historical and physiological averages place lifespans around thirty and seventeen years, respectively.
A novel marriage procession in Liuanchow Anhui Province China on the auspicious eighth day saw a twenty two year old man abduct his intended bride. They were tied back to back and carried off to prevent elopement, the bride sulking but later reconciled as friends smoothed over the affair.
Smith bluntly tells his friend Jones that his habit of daydreaming makes him seem not to listen and has offended others. Jones asks for clarification, appearing detached as the personal confrontation unfolds.
Organization Counts reports Baldwin locomotive works received an order for a monster locomotive shipped in fifteen days. An official cites the art of getting men to respond like thoroughbreds, noting that leadership drives speed and strength, and compares industrial leaders to great men in war.
A Chicago Tribune correspondent recalls a school scene where a student selected the admired senior class president’s ode for reading. The narrator, who was the president, notes the decision revealed favoritism and classroom dynamics during a routine English class.
Popular Science Monthly notes a proposal to equip lighthouses with powerful vertical searchlights. Beams could pierce fog or cloud cover, remain visible from above, and aid navigation at night, as airmen and ships would observe the patch of light on clouds and mist.
The tourmaline crystal generates an electrostatic charge that pulls small paper bits and straw similar to amber. Sunlight lowers its charge at low temperatures, but heating restores it. A negatively charged crystal becomes positively charged when reheated, with several other stones showing related effects.
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