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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Feb 20, 1915
Page
6
An excerpt from San Francisco Chronicle argues that human flight is impossible due to anatomy. It compares the human sternum and collarbone with a bird's deep keel breastbone and massive pectoral muscles, noting birds’ muscles and bone structure enable lift while humans would need a six foot keel and giant wishbone to achieve powered flight.
London Telegraph explains how torpedo boat destroyers evolved from defending battleships against small torpedo craft to multi role ships. Modern destroyers are larger, seaworthy, and carry more fuel enabling extended operations. Key duties include torpedo attacks and night scouting to locate enemy forces and report positions.
The London Standard recalls Lord Byron visiting Ostend once, admiring its fort and the looming threat of Viking invaders seen from the harbour loophole. He traveled to Dover in a grand £500 coach and waited for a storm to pass before crossing by mail packet as his poem Childe Harald's Pilgrimage reflects on seasickness.
A man named John Farrell, plagued by a nervous breakdown and memory loss, seeks help from a specialist who warns of aphasia. The patient later wanders NYC streets and struggles to recall his location, asking, Hotel Ambrosia, in New York. The scene captures his escalating confusion and public concern.
A man afflicted with aphasia recalls fragments of memory after a hotel incident in New York. Police pursue a famed socialite jewel theft linked to a mysterious visitor. A detective notes a walking stick and necktie pattern as clues, while memory lapses fuel a high profile inquiry.
In a rocky courtroom drama John Farrell proclaims innocence as witnesses attest to his alibi. After adjournments the case settles with Farrell discharged. Later in San Francisco he confronts a web of deception revealing Mrs Courtensy’s plan to stage a fake necklace theft for publicity.
Indianapolis News recounts how the line Go west young man originated in John B. L. Soule’s Terre Haute Express article 1851 to 1853. Richard W. Thompson urged Soule to write it, Horace Greeley never authored it but endorsed it publicly, and the New York Tribune circulated the piece with Greeley’s footnote.
A market in Medina appears crowded with carts and pack animals as villagers buy essentials. A dapper woman offers goat milk cheeses, pricing in reales, sparking playful banter with a caballero. An anecdote recalls a Russian envoy at Balmoral joking about golf with a scaled ball.
A Westminster Gazette item recounts a famous doctor Abernethby wooing a daughter in a blunt courtship. He notes his professional duties and annual receipts, offers hand and fortune, and declares he has little time for routine courtship, planning to visit Monday for the lady’s determined answer. The outcome: the match proceeds and the marriage is described as felicitous.
New York Journal describes ferrets as cold blooded killers from the weasel family. It claims they hunt rats rabbits and other small animals for slaughter not sustenance, attack trainers and even children, and show no affection or loyalty.
A transcribed era piece argues steam engine origins before Watts and Fulton, citing Worcester Papin Savary and Newcomb. It notes Watt’s fame as inventor dates after these precedents and mentions Fulton’s later demonstrations. A separate New York Globe dialogue questions women’s arm injuries and wartime labor exposure.
Wheat bran and middlings are plentiful along with seeds like cotton seed meal and linseed meal priced at 1.50 per 100 pounds. Ground alfalfa and brewers grains are offered as cheaper alternatives. The note praises cotton seed meal for high protein and low price, urges trying other feeds, and claims corn is most expensive.
Special Notice warns owners or anyone harboring dogs that running dogs off leash is illegal during the close seasons. Dogs may only run free September and October and must be accompanied by the owner who may not carry a gun. Fines range from $1 to $5 per violation, payable to the informer upon conviction. MARC BRYANT, Chief Game Warden. Citiiq
Growers are invited to contract on Tuesdays and Saturdays for this year with G. T. Redden & Co. Prices are eight dollars per ton for tomatoes ten dollars per ton for sugar corn and two cents per pound for peas. Seed peas cost three dollars per bushel. Growers receive pro rata share of winter ensilage stored at the factory.
A fragmentary report notes departures and arrivals between Hurlock Williamsburg Federalsburg Riverview Inn Williston Willoughby and Denton with a cited figure 1.25. The concise item hints at scheduled movements or times but lacks full context or dates. Entities include Fa Hurlock Williamsburg Federalsburg Riverview Inn Williston Willoughby Denton and a numeric 1.25.
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