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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Feb 14, 1914
Page
6
A theater manager recalls the flood of wannabe playwrights. He recounts paying $500 for a manuscript unseen and later courting a romance with the author Miss Alice Woodruff. He reflects on literary hopes, love, and the costs of staging unproven works as he considers a future collaboration.
A narrator recalls clashes with Parkinson over a first denial and a second play. Alice Woodfall reveals a scheme around a lost manuscript titled A Sylvan Butterfly. The man learns the sting of ambition, while his wife’s misfortunes become his own costly lesson in love and success.
Report on Christmas boxes dropped by Boers on English lines during the Transvaal siege. A war correspondent recounts incidents from campaigns, including shells named Long Tom and Weary Willie, improvised shelter digging, and soldiers observing a football game under fire.
A fragmentary excerpt discusses a speculative theory by Professor Fanth in Natural Science. It posits the sun’s future engulfment of the solar system in an explosion and suggests outer planets are icy masses with a surrounding shell. The piece references a vast Milky Way misinterpretation and a distant past extinction of life. New York Sun
Extracted passages describe sailing Aus. 15 through Be Ring Strait near Cape Prince of Wales, Eskimos crossing between continents, and a brief digression on Muscular Christianity. It also cites reflections on Indian art and a London Academy critique of Lille and Paris art scenes.
In an anecdote about Beate Neate at Eton a cold incident sparks a lesson in manhood. Fifteen years later the student, serving with the Third Dragoons, leads a charge at Sobraon on the Sutlej, proving the harsh punch of discipline and pride.
A corrected tale about Coleridge adopting a fake surname and serving as a sentry ends with the poet’s family reunion after a private delays. Nearby lines describe Bavarian signposts measuring time to villages, Australian painter Patterson’s misfit commission, Goethe and Schiller, a Chicago joke about a half minute visit, and stray quips on memory and wit.
An old advertisement promotes Dr Bull’s Cough Syrup as safe for children with fever, cold, and coughing. It claims no morphine or chloroform and cites a testimonial from Mrs. E. vom Lehn of Brooklyn. Free samples and mail-order offer from F. C. Meyer & Co. Baltimore, MD.
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