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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Feb 03, 1900
Page
1
A Chicago Journal fragment recounts Polly Stanton's bungled ransom style encounter with police at Mr Wilson's house. A nun’s owner and Betle temper add chaos as Polly feigns innocence hiding in a window while neighbors mistake her for a thief. The tale ends with Polly’s coy humor and a sly recap of the events.
Polly narrates a nocturnal escapade: Miss Stanton seeks help fixing a new house, Polly climbs through a window, a policeman appears, and Polly outsmarts him by staying inside as Miss Stanton is led away to a patrol box. The tale mixes wit with suspense about a supposedly break-in and a cheeky heroine.
Henry Ward Beecher and Colonel Ingersoll once shared a New York rail station conversation about mankind and gravestone epitaphs The next moment Beecher showed a Burns headline to the skeptic Then two years later Ingersoll recalled Beecher and offered his own epitaph about freedom and religious bondage.
A Mississippi man recalls a store incident where the proprietor, startled by a sleeping owner, quotes Absalom's line about his horse running under a tree and leaving him hanging by a limb, claiming wide familiarity with the source.
A visitor describes Moscow as a city of constant prayer with cathedrals and shrines every few hundred feet and crowds crossing themselves in public. The piece likens the intense piety to riding a springless cart over a plowed field, comparing it to Moorish captivity in tone.
A Busy Men's Luncheon Club tale recalls two rival Christians who helped a starving man, each unaware of the other's aid. The donor pairs meet, realize shared humanity, and reject creed in favor of brotherhood. A Boer exhibit at the Paris Exposition outlines Transvaal life, mining, and transport displays.
A skunk challenges a lion to single combat, the Hon declines, and the skunk mocks the cowardice. The anecdote recalls Henry Ward Beecher and Dr Lyman Beecher and a remark about avoiding quarrels after watching a books-armed man spar with a small animal.
A Portland minister in a parish story is surprised when a woman’s voice from a neighboring house says she knows he is at the door. The next Sunday she apologizes for missing the visit. A jeweler joke follows about engraving from A to Z on a ring and a parasol ant cutting a circle with jaws.
An unsophisticated visitor and a stranger exchange taunts about a painting, revealing tensions over precedent and taste. The dialogue condemns iconoclasm and outdated notions of form in a fashion typical of a cold, changing era.
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