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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Feb 10, 1906
Page
4
A Venetian article defends the shark as a practical sea scavenger and cleaner, countering romantic pirate imagery. It describes the shark’s diet, noting scraps from ships and dead prey, and argues sharks perform essential cleanup with methodical appetite and limited predatory danger.
A late 17th century Lyon council debated gentility and right to gentlemen status. Lawyers, doctors, and landholders sought recognized noble standing, with Thomas Robbins and Charles iiia among cases. Leucke old writer cites a timeless definition of true gentility as inner quality guided by God.
The interior of Ceylon natives coat walls and roofs with a glaz ing paste of slaked lime gluten and alum to create a durable finish seen in three century old specimens. In Sumatra native women braid palm leaf cloth for roof edges and tops while Indian and Ceylon temples feature roofs of cut stone blocks hewed timber and split bamboo. Across Celebes and the Philippines they use uneven planks from old dead panko trees. Shark skins serve as roofs for fishermen in the Andaman Islands.
A western reporter recalls a Denver journal chief urging rapid manuscript submission for a football sermon. The tale and a Virginia lawsuit reveal a Virginia Negro’s name confusion. The man insists his name is What-timor ous-ours-we-poor-mortals-be Jackson, nicknamed Wim.
A garbled fragment discusses a painter named Angelo and a judgment day theme. It mentions a friend, a son, and a witty man, with uncertain references to exhibitions or classification of art. The text is largely unreadable but centers on a historical painter and perceived significance.
A Massachusetts Board of Agriculture report describes two Belmont and Methuen market gardens near Boston, each about three to four acres, selling produce daily to keep pace with demand. The farmers, aided by two workers, earn around 1000 dollars yearly from crops like beans, cucumbers, radishes, watercress and parsley, using extensive manuring and careful labor practices.
The article argues roots are underused in American farming due to cost and feed misjudgment. It notes progress from machinery reducing costs and references English and Canadian practices. It also reports Rhode Island station finding soda cannot fully replace potash as a plant nutrient though useful with some crops.
Dr Galloway reports a breakthrough in winter lettuce via disease resistant stock. Sultan, a South African goat, set a world record by weighing eighteen and a half pounds at one cap. California reports record green fruit shipments east, up sharply from the prior season. Wood distillation gains interest as a waste utilization in timbering. Critics chide Burbankitis despite praising his plant growth. High cheese prices noted as a positive sign for dairy economics, with full cream cheese valued as a cheap food at current prices.
Excerpt discusses the value of chickadees and woodpeckers in orchard pest control. It notes chickadees eat eggs of plant lice and cankerworm moths, estimating thousands of eggs consumed monthly. It also mentions woodpeckers feeding on bark beetles, cankerworms, and ants, with species-specific diet highlights.
Warnabgs to Hug Raisers, Don't think the sow cub who care of her youre without any assistance whatever with the therinometer below ZLI. Don't forget that a good bed is neces sary at all thes, but more especially at this season of the year, and that It shoud be free from dust and dumpness dt you expect the ples to thrive. Don't fasten the sow up in a small pen, from which are expelled as air and light ag sunshine and fresh air are no of the best disinfectants known in the world. John & Gentry advise mix the feed for the youne ples one feed ahead, add a bait spoonful of oilment, increase as they grow, soak shelled corn, and let it ride between feeds. If cattle fed corn, pigs get exercise and steady food. A southern exposure protected by a high fence and north by a building helps sun thaw on sunny days.
Neglect has produced many wood lots choked with unhealthy timber of various kinds. Fungi on cucumbers under glass require spraying with Bordeaux mixture. Western stations advise not mixing corn with milk for lind fed calves. Many wash burns with cloth instead of rinsing. Barn cats receive milk at milking time to aid rodent control. Green bone feeding has helped winter egg production. The late Edward Noyes Westcott's David Tarrum netted about $125000 for the estate per the surrogate’s court in Syracuse New York.
A survey of how poverty or indifference affect appreciation of music among writers, poets, and public figures. It cites Tennyson, Coleridge, Southey, Scott, Gautier, Hugo, Milton, Johnson, Lamb, Pope, and Swift, noting varied reactions to music from praise to apathy and recounting humorous anecdotes.
A text on how the mental attitude toward work drives success. Persisting belief in a better future sustains effort through poverty and drudgery, leading to notable inventions and civilizational uplift. It cites inventors who endured hardship, ignoring discouragement, to create dresses, comforts, and conveniences we enjoy today.
Christmas customs from Ireland to Norway are described with quirky notes on weddings on Christmas Day, birds prompted to sing by canaries and kitchen frictions, Vulcan’s mythic fall, and odd scientific facts like metals and woods properties. A Washington Star quip about eyes closes the collection.
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