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Newspaper

Denton Journal

Location

Denton, Maryland, United States of America

Date

Feb 26, 1938

Page

7

O'Conor Endorsed In Two More Counties

Petitions pledging convention votes for Herbert R. O'Conor were filed from Howard and St. Mary's Counties. Howard County signers include 278 names with leaders such as Howard Bruce and State Senator Joseph L. Donovan pledging support. In St. Mary's, leader Philip H. Dorsey presented endorsements predicting O'Conor's victory there. Other county leaders across the region affirmed allegiance to the O'Conor faction.

Herbert R.o’conor Howard St. Mary’s O’conor State Central Committee Howard County Democratic Party Howard Bruce Maryland Joseph L. Donovan Frank Shipley Raymond L. Pickett Register of Wills H. Grafton Penny Robert H. Mercer C. Ferdinand Sybert Jerome A. Loughran Charles Carroll, Jr House of Delegates Daniel H. Gaither Board County Commissioners DeWilton Parlett John Hardy Humphrey D. Wolfe Edwin Warfield, Jr Daily Record Howard T. Downs Charles Downs Isaac H. Taylor P. A. Sybert Murray Talbott Stanley P. Harman William L. Hasting George L. Gardiner W. P. Maloney A. V. Weaver Eureka-Maryland Assurance Corporation Milton W. Baxley Mortimer D. Crapster Philip H. Dorsey, Jr Democratic State Central Committee St. Mary’s County Adam T. Wible St. Mary's County Charles A. Heard Henry Camalier B. Harris Camalier Board of County Commissioners George B. Cecil Peter H. Thompson M. C. Thompson Board of Supervisors of Elections Mr. O’conor James C. Johnson Morganza J. A. Norris Great Mills H. W. Hewitt Valley Lee Roy Guyther Mechanicsville T. King Clarke California John A. Cecil James H. Roach Ridge B. F. Herbert Dynard W. H. Mattingly Abell John F. Gardiner Leonardtown Gilbert Hooper Stanley L. Raley St. Inigoes Johnson Mattingly

Curiosa Americana First American Librarian Was a Frenchman

Curiosa Americana recounts Timothee Timathée, a Huguenot refugee who learned printing in Holland, moved to Philadelphia, and was hired by Benjamin Franklin to run what became America’s first public library under the Junto. He later Americanized his name, moved to Charleston, and bought the Carolina Gazette, launching a major Southern print shop.

Loula ‘Mmothee France Holland Philadelphia Benjamin Franklin Franklin Niame United States Timothee Charleston S. C Carolina Gazette South Western Newspaper Union

Stockings in Elizabethan England and a Patent Promise

In Queen Bess’s reign England wore stockings by law on Sundays while court ladies bore bare legs due to long skirts. The knitting trade thrived as reformers complained of harm to hand knitters. Rev William Lee invented a woollen stocking machine, then silk hose to win a patent, which the queen refused, prompting Lee to flee to France with his device.

Bess England Cleveland Plain Dealer Elizabeth William Lee Nottingham Lee France

Languages of the World Estimated at 2790

A Paris dispatch cites the Academie Francaise estimate that 2790 languages exist worldwide. The piece notes the feat of multilinguals, cites Cardinal Mezzofanti as a famed linguist fluent in about sixty languages with over a hundred known, and references Byron’s praise of him as a walking polyglot and master of many tongues across French German and regional dialects.

Academie Fran‘caise Paris Cardinal Mezzofanti Byron Faubourg St. Germain Toulouse Black Forest Dresden

Cloth Use Traces To Chinese Tradition Of Child Carriage

A historical note links the use of cloth to Chinese tradition, detailing how fabric use evolved from women carrying their children in fiber nets, reflecting cultural practices and textile development.

Satan Gets Credit for Tempting Men

A brief voice in dialect quotes Uncle Eben arguing that Satan earns credit for prompting men who choose their own path without interference, reflecting a moral edge in a colonial-era serialized page.

Satan Eben

March Traditions and Superstitions Across Civilizations

The piece recalls March’s rich lore from Julius Caesar to Roman and European calendars. It notes the ides of March and March 25 as year beginnings in England until 1752, the warlike Mars linkage, weather sayings, and the belief in March winds and beer brewing conditions.

March Julius Caesar Caesar Europe England

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