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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Feb 12, 1921
Page
4
Discussion of Jesus' tribute coin question and the two great commandments. Emphasizes loyalty to civil authority until it conflicts with God, and defines love of God and neighbor as the core of true citizenship, urging Christlike conduct as the mark of good citizens.
A concise meditation on fame comparing it to a shifting wind and to an undertaker. The excerpt contrasts fame's fleeting nature with its impact on the living and the dead, noting how it pays little heed to the living yet decorates the dead and attends funerals.
The essay credits Henri Murger with shaping a bohemian moral condition rather than geography. Born March 24, 1822 in Paris, he drew readers with artist and student ire toward Paris, wrote tales and songs of dissolute thrift, studied law, served briefly as Tolstoy’s secretary, and died in a Paris charity hospital in 1861. A monument to him sparked protests, and Lang translated several of Murger’s songs in 1872's Hatreds and Lyrics of Old France.
Readers encounter ancient tale tellers along coastal marketplaces where skilled narrators spin magical episodes from the Arabian Nights. The enchanting tradition grows into written legends linked to Scheherazade and Shahriar, tracing through Aladdin, Sinbad, Ali Baba, and others.
Fossils from Miocene rocks in northwestern Nebraska reveal white corkscrew-shaped structures up to 18 feet long once misread as plant roots. Later finds show animal bones and burrows of a small prairie dog living with the corkscrews, the burrows matching fossil shapes.
A Colombian catfish species earns a reputation for climbing feats aided by suction. One specimen reportedly moved 18 feet in half an hour over a steep rock, using suction as it clung to surfaces. Some relatives lack suction cups yet crawl against currents using smooth ventral skin and enlarged tips.
Fragmentary verse fragment notes fame as a narrow birthplace and distant wide fame. The voice hints at fame’s paradox and distant breadth without a clear narrative or person.
The lotus, long linked with ancient Egyptian religion and myth, is celebrated as a symbol with wide historical resonance. Legends describe it as tied to Osiris, the nymph Lotus, and tales of transformation and tragedy involving Hercules and Ilyas, with a pool of blossoms central to the myth.
A salesman persistently visits a potential customer over years. The customer recalls polite visits and a running joke that the salesman never gives up a prospect, adding that they never give up a prospect even if he dies. The piece reflects on persistence in sales and a stubborn chase for a sale.
The text portrays a brutal prison in Urga Mongolia, with triple stockades surrounding dark ventilationless cells. Prisoners are confined in coffin like boxes, unable to sit or lie down, their only daylight limited to a few minutes daily when food is passed through a small hole.
The use of peat as a fuel traces back beyond historical times across Ireland, Britain, Scandinavia, Germany, Scotland, and France. Teutons on northern borders dried and burned peat, a practice still seen in many regions where peat is cut from bogs, dried, and used as fuel in bricklike stacks.
A historic mansion, The Hermitage, once linked to Aaron Burr and Theodosia Prevost in 1782, is used as a film set on Paroinos road south of Tursey. Passersby glimpsed actors, a long rug blocking sun, a garden hose shower, and a dainty maiden seeking shelter as crews reenact a colonial era scene.
A fragmentary description sketches Julia Boudre, a noted figure among seven Boudre flower-takers living in New Orleans. The text portrays her as a worldly, stylish woman connected to various colorful motifs and “flower-takers” within the local scene.
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