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Howard Melvin captions a Saturday morning edition of the Derton Journal on February 8, 1908. The page presents local notices and brief items typical of early 20th century rural journalism.
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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Feb 08, 1908
Page
2
Money conditions ease as banks sense recovery amid abundant coin
A New York letter contrasts bank cash abundance with prior panic, noting large bills in demand and clerks counting vast stacks. The piece links surplus money to lower call loan rates and a rebound in business, while urging farm labor deployment to ease urban unemployment and fund road improvements across Maryland and Delaware counties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Sub-Treasury
Physicians and chemists meet in Baltimore on food drug act
An important gathering of physicians pharmacists packing interests retail grocers and organizations met in Baltimore on Monday to discuss the pure food and drug act. Dr Ra Remsen presided with Dr W W Goldsborough representing Caroline county. They urged strong state support and anticipated passage of strengthening laws to protect public health and eliminate deleterious products.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anne Arundel
Montgomery
Frederick
Cornell
Kent
Maryland
New Castle
Delaware
Caroline
Baltimore
Ra Remsen
Caroline County
W. W. Goldsborough
Congress
McCormack
Roosevelt letter stirs Republican row over trust blame
President Roosevelt’s message to Congress last Friday accuses wealthy interests of causing national business distress through deceit and corruption. He asserts honest reform is not vindictive, cites Standard Oil and railroad combines, and suggests a Democratic Congress would benefit the people. He notes predatory wealth shapes elections and hints at a coming shift in national government.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roosevelt
Congress
Standard Oil Trust
Pennsylvania Railroad
The Farm Boys Hope Lies in Education
In the debate echoed by John Corbin in the Saturday Evening Post, farm wealth and methods shift from extensive to intensive. From 1880 to 1900 farm values nearly doubled due to machinery and smarter farming. but rising capital needs threaten the farm boy’s rise, risking a future as a lowly laborer unless education empowers him.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Corbin
Saturday Evening Post
Rogers
West
College of Agriculture
England
Farm machinery sparks social shift in rural life
The piece argues that agricultural education exists nationwide but few students enroll, urging modernization. It highlights the dramatic impact of farm machinery on yields, efficiency, and rural society, citing Quaintance and Dodge to illustrate rising cereal production, shorter workdays, and greater literacy among farmers. A brief obituary notes Bessie Hammond’s death age seven in 1908.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. W. Quaintance
Postmasters Notice on Second Class Postage Rates
Postmasters issue notices to publishers citing the December Postal Guide rule requiring postage at the transient second class rate for papers with subscriptions in arrears over one year. The rule took effect January 1 and will be enforced April 1, urging mailing list adjustments and prompt remittance from subscribers. A second item reports C W Jones dying suddenly after arguing against liquor licenses in Greenwood. He had been a leading Sussex county distiller. A Philadelphia paper compares this winter with 1855 56 and predicts rough weather ahead. J Howard Pastorfield offers cabbage plants for sale.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Postoffice Department
Sussex County
C. W. Jones
Frank Oweens
Greenwood
Jones
Samuel S. Smith
Brookville
County of
Jefferson
Pennsylvania
Orphans Court
Caroline County
William J. Smith
Fred J. Smith
Willison J. Smith
Irving S. Smith
Rebeca Smith
Punxsutawney
Jefferson County
Fred
Smith
Ein Smith
Willian J. Smith
Annie M. Smith
Mary Smith
Circuit Court
Equity
Cya
Mother Grays Australisa Seal advertised for women’s ills
An old advertisement touts Mother Gray's Australisa Seal as a safe fever reducing regulator for back pain urinary and abdominal troubles. The copy invites readers to obtain a sample package by mail from The Mother Gray Co. New York and lists druggists as sellers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mother Gray
The
Mother Gray Co
eBoy
N.Y
Lost Memoranda Book Bound for Morocco Reported Missing
A wine colored memoranda book with checks notes and papers was lost in Denton around November 6. A reward of two dollars and a half is offered by the JourNAL Office for safe return with no questions asked.
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Denton
Journal
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General Conference of the
Methodist Episcopal Church
the Lyric
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Ménorlam
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Paradise
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Nisi
Walter I. Lord
Josephine Ross
Orphans’ Court
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Uhe
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E. W. Liden
I. T.fleetwood
Robt. J Jump
Register of Wills
Pool
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James D. Neal
Said Kelley
Eal
George T. Redden
H. T. Nuttle
Samuel G. Nuttle
Court House
J. Larrimore, Ira Wooters
S.C
Lincoln
Del
Denton, Md
H. Clinton Wright
Winfield R. Wright
Dauber
H.C
W. RK Wrigh
Carter Block
Pallimore
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Philippines
Porto Rico
Cuba
Tae Sun
the Farmer's Paper
Sun
Norfolk
Charleston
Chicago
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Mail
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A.S. Abell Company,publishers and Proprietors
William A. Parker
John T. Parker
J. Clan Clark
I. T. Fleetwood
Robt. J. Jump
Bulletin
Marth West
Thomas L. Day
East Denton
Toa Alley
Main and
Eighth
T Journal Office
Glendale Poultry Yards
Rhode Island
F.C. Ramsdell
G. T. Redden & CO
Harriet E. F. Washington
S. Camac Street
William R. Washington
Court of Common Pleas
Samuel J. Taylor
Libellant
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