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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Jan 01, 1927
Page
2
The notice announces a weekly Saturday publication published by Melvin and Johnson Incorporated with Benjamin H. Johnson as President and Treasurer and Benjamin F. Jonson as Vice-President and Secretary. It states the paper is entered at the Denton Maryland post office as second class mail matter and is dated Saturday morning January 1 1927.
The piece traces calendar history from ancient civilizations to Gregorian reform and reflects on turning from 1926 to 1927 with hopeful tones. It notes US peace and prosperity, warns against prosperity leading to vice, and surveys stock and bond markets including 1926 performance and the year’s last price levels.
Editorial notes praise major U S munitions firms shifting to peaceful production in rayon dyes washing machines and cash registers highlighting duPont Savage Arms Remington shifts. It laments likely inaction by Republicans and a Congress that may ignore broad public benefit while pursuing minor measures.
An increase of 25 million dollars in National City Bank of New York's capital stock brings its total capitalization to 140 million. The piece notes public calm about Wall Street power and recalls Woodrow Wilson's 70th birthday observance and Elihu Root's bronze medal award by the Woodrow Wilson Foundation in New York.
The Weather Bureau dismisses forecasts based on key calendar days and long-running cycles as absurd. It notes overlapping dates from January first to many saint days create contradictions and insists that past records, despite variability, remain the reliable guide to weather behavior.
A concise notice announces a line of ladies and gents wrist watches now available at F J Wright's store. It highlights a new stock offering and invites customers to inspect the collection.
A roundup of residents hosting and visiting relatives and friends over Christmas weekend. Numerous households in Goldsboro Wilmington Norwood Folsom Marcus Hook and nearby towns welcomed kin, with dinners, visits, and holidays noted for many Sylvester, Walls, Gooden, Pritchett, Coffin and Zephyr families among others.
In Florida before a cross country road trip Senator duPont of Delaware promotes a 500 foot wide Atlantic to Pacific highway. The bill calls for a survey first to determine Delaware's share and envisions future growth areas rented at interest to fund the project.
Mr. William A. Culver has taken over the store formerly run by Linwood Eaton on north Sixth Street and will serve friends and the public with groceries of all kinds and fresh meats.
A quiet six thirty Wednesday ceremony united Miss Elizabeth Jump and Mr. Howard Eley at Rev. E. S. Dashiell home Salisbury with Rev. Dr. Dashiell officiating. The couple, now to reside in Queen Anne, plan a Washington, D. C. trip after a wedding breakfast.
A reader writes from Lynn Haven describing Florida coastal warmth during Christmas, noting balmy air, open cars, and an Indian summer climate. The note recalls a Miami hurricane flood, blooming flowers, and a waterfront home near St Andrews Bay with boating and camping trips along the Gulf of Mexico.
The article urges energy foods for children and adults during cold weather noting the mother’s role in stocking canned vegetables such as corn navy lima stringless beans spaghetti sweet potatoes peas and more. It emphasizes starches for fuel protein for muscle and minerals and vitamins for health with examples like milk canned fruits such as pineapple and cream soups as digestible nutrition components for school lunches.
The Gulf coast at Lynn Haven near Panama City offers easy surf access and abundant game nearby quail duck deer wild turkey and bear within a short distance of the county seat. Panama City is a tourist town with a top southern hotel several boarding houses furnished cottages a fine 18 hole golf course and an interdenominational college under construction by Rev Bob Jones. The writer praises Florida as a winter or permanent residence and notes a return to Maryland and Delaware for the summer in a December 28 1926 letter from Mrs. Win Edwin Brown Lynn Haven Florida.
Few have seen a humming birds nest and its two small white eggs. The nest, built of soft hairs and moss, is camouflaged, requiring an experienced eye to find. The Cuba fairy hummingbird makes a nest tiny enough to cover with a copper cent. The ruby throat is the common Eastern U S species. Audubon described hummingbirds as glittering fragments of the rainbow.
A loving tribute to the memory of our dear father Albert Howard who departed this life December 17 1913. The poem speaks of sorrow and solace, the touch of God's sickle in harvest, and the enduring memory of a father by his children.
La Tour d Auvergne, a French officer, joined the revolutionists and earned a feared reputation for courage. He reportedly captured San Sebastian single handed, arriving by small boat with a tiny cannon and forcing the fort to surrender after a staged advance guard demand and a fire-shot bluff.
The trombone has been celebrated for centuries as a meritorious instrument with roots in ancient Rome and Greece. Historical accounts note its exclusive use in Venetian fetes and its presence in royal state bands under Henry VIII and Elizabeth I. Eminent musicians, including Sir George Macfarren, favored it in orchestras and concerts conducted by Sir Michael Costa, with Alexander II of Russia also known to enjoy the instrument.
The text argues that people who frown are not to be feared and possess strong traits. It asserts frowners have excellent character, being honest, loyal, kind, and possessing organizing gifts, making them good parents.
If the planet rotated in about ninety minutes rather than a day, objects would lose weight drastically and aviators would feel near weightlessness during flight.
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