05 Jan 1918
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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Jan 05, 1918
Page
1
Quaker and Mother's Oats and Pettijohn's customers are urged to claim an Aluminum Cooker next week at a reduced price. The offer is limited to those not yet supplied and to users of the named oat brands. To obtain the cooker you must present the sales slip. The promo notes the offer is costly and requires proof of brand use.
Fragmented text lists names and places with unclear context. Readable items mention Midgely in Massachusetts and a place or person named Meurydel. No clear event, date, or organization is identifiable.
A New York woman testified that her brother George Clark stole her prized canary from her West Fifty Ninth Street home. She described the bird as the best of her thirteen pets and the sweetest singer. The brother escaped punishment due to a technicality, while a Western move exposed another tale of a man branded mean by local gossip.
An aboard sailor’s wartime tale recalls a seasick soldier during a voyage on the Atlantic. An officer presses with a mocking question, and the response contrasts duty and the sea’s claim as the crew endures rough weather and stern discipline.
Thornton restores a venerable estate during the summer he spends with Miss Roberts and her daughter Margery. a river rescue by Nero the dog saves Margery, earning Thornton Isabel Roberts’s gratitude and the couple’s growing affection. The story ends with Thornton, Isabel, Margery, and Nero sharing a hopeful life at the Gables.
Fragmented OCR text suggests a report on an electrical treatment used on soldiers in a French military trial. Details are unclear but mention of shocks and therapy hints at early medical experiments within a military context.
A Cleveland Plain Dealer note reports England has shifted from toffees to chewing gum. Sales rose from 3 million to 20 million sticks monthly, aided by Army and Navy use as a stress reliever and throat moistener. Observers credit soldiers with spreading the habit and Canadian troops influencing Tommies.
A regular army officer who knew General Funston said he expected to die a civilian's death, not in action. Dr. William Pepper of the University of Pennsylvania told Frederick Fraley he would die before a set date, later predicting a death in September 1901, and both men died in that year as Pepper foresaw.
A new air route between Trelleborg in Sweden and Sassnitz on the island of Rugen in northeast Germany is under discussion as part of a proposed connection with Germany. The plan, framed amid recent diplomatic developments, envisions a 24 hour express service linking Stockholm with the German coast.
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