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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Feb 24, 1894
Page
1
An essay questions if women may smoke and assume male roles such as law, medicine, or dress, arguing for equality despite resistance. A narrative follows American travelers in a Swiss village, where a photographer shouts Vive la republique, surprising locals and sending their expressions toward a patriotic, cross Atlantic moment.
An Optician writer notes that glass lenses feel colder than horn or eclinioid at the same temperature due to higher thermal conductivity. He cites figures for glass and quartz, showing anisotropic conductivity in quartz and cites Forbes data on axis directions, illustrating heat transfer differences among lens materials.
A traveler seeks shelter at a cabin in the Tennessee mountains but is refused by a woman who fears there are no men in the house. She suggests moving on two miles to the next place, warning of a rough road and advising departure before a mile is passed.
A Pittsburgh note recounts two women who traded Christmas cards despite little contact otherwise. After one died, the survivor sent a card to the widower who loved the gesture. Now the old man receives a card each Christmas and sends one back, with no greetings exchanged.
A speech by Ohio Congressman Tom Johnson denounces the Wilson bill duty on steel rails as nominal and pro‑pool. He argues Carnegie’s steel rail cartel controls production and prices, with a 25 percent ad valorem duty masking no real relief for consumers or government revenue.
An expedition member and physician discuss moon darkness via a Persian sheik's tale on creation and celestial access. They travel to Kaleh y Gorg meeting Darab Khan and Mirza Ali Akbar who quiz the narrator on marriage customs, noting polygamy contrasts.
United States Senator Janis Smith Jr of New Jersey discusses how manufacturers expect to profit from the Wilson tariff bill by cutting wages and lowering raw material costs. He notes netting prices hurt fishermen and mentions hatters seeking protection from immigrant workers, amid protectionist rhetoric in Congress.
The speech argues wages depend on labor product value and untaxed inputs. It contends protection lowers overall wages by taxing consumers, references Morrill’s inquiry, and cites immigration and union-influence on steel mills. It notes labor-employer tensions and antiunion actions by Carnegie-era mills.
In old Ireland a sacred Holy Oak of Kenmare linked to St Columbian offered safety from death to anyone who kept a fragment. Storm uprooting it, angels were said to guard the wood from heathens until a wicked tanner cut a limb and used it to leather shoes, which he wore once before becoming incurably leprous.
A recounting of an 1810 oyster in London that allegedly whistled, with Thackeray and Douglas Jerrold notes. Also mentions a disinfectant claim about Spot and a comic prize tale from London Tit Bits on a banker's daughter wedding wording.
A reflective note on confined animals in a menagerie. It argues that rapacious birds and beasts retain their instinct to destroy even after years of confinement and become most dangerous once they escape and recognize their power.
New York World notes Pottery trust protests driven by wage cuts of 10 percent with possible 20 percent further reductions if the tariff bill passes. It cites prior McKinley protections and a 22 percent cut in Trenton, plus alleged monopoly profits and high returns on capital, arguing reform comes too late to curb vested rights.
A Reform club gathering in Amsterdam New York challenged protected manufacturers and shifted workingmen from opposition to support for the Wilson Bill. Mr Thomas G Shearman persuaded attendees that protectionist claims were false, leading to a unanimous motion in favor of the tariff reform.
In 1787 New York faced domestic competition from Connecticut and New Jersey. Advocates pushed a navigation act and protective tariff to stop shipments of firewood butter cheese poultry and produce from leaving the city and enriching outsiders. The piece notes tariffs mirroring those on London and Hamburg ships to curb intercolonial trade. Progress In Surgery reflects on advances from tracheotomy to hearing devices and mass adoption of new prosthetics.
Colonel Thomas Moonlight of Leavenworth named minister to Bolivia by President Cleveland. A veteran soldier and politician, Moonlight served in the Civil War, held Kansas offices, and was governor of Wyoming from 1886 to 1889. Salary for the post is five thousand dollars annually.
Henry W. Sage, aging eighty, receives Cornell University’s Museum of Classical Archaeology dedication and a silver memorial vase. Sage funded major campus buildings, served as chairman of trustees, and has donated over 1.2 million dollars while his management saved the university millions.
Chief Justice Jeremiah Black of Pennsylvania rebukes Judge Moses Hampton over a case, saying he must have wandered in the wilderness when he made his decision and sends the case back to the lower court. Hampton on a second trial defends his ruling despite higher authority, citing the Lamentations of Jeremiah.
The article warns that rising ivory trade could drive elephants to extinction. It cites a Sheffield firm processing 1,280 elephant tusks last year, noting a drastic drop from a few years ago when 100 pairs sufficed for operations.
The St Pauls cathedral plans to install electric light. A Wilmington firm stopped its whistle 13 years ago due to complaints and fined late workers 25 cents. only two fines have occurred since, raising questions about the need for a noisy whistle to summon workers.
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