12 Jan 1884
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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Jan 12, 1884
Page
1
Advice leaflets promote Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup for teething children claiming immediate relief from crying and pain. It is said to cure dysentery and diarrhea, regulate digestion, ease wind colic, soften gums, reduce inflammation, and boost energy. Sold by druggists worldwide at 25 cents.
Denver man George T. Clark recounts a perilous hunt on a Breckenridge mountain tote. After tracking a bear and riding a snowslide, he avoided death by snow avalanche and a grizzly encounter. He survived by leveraging a boulder to gain speed and braving the wreckage to reach safety and bear meat.
Rev J Edgar Wilson of Baltimore reflected on Methodism origins from Oxford 1729 to the Baltimore 1784 church formation at Lovely Lane Chapel with Bishops Coke and Asbury. He traced early growth, United States ministers and members, noting 1879 denominational counts and a planned Baltimore centennial conference this Christmas.
A Franklin essay imagines freezing a person for a century or more and thawing them to resume life. German professors sought subjects to test the idea though securing a willing person proved difficult. The tale cites the Lovell rooster found frozen stiff in an ice house as a related example.
A dramatic incident references a dinner room table and an ice house, noting a man froze to death after improper thawing. The plan may suffer a setback unless someone is restrained, as the rooster was, highlighting caution around handling ice storage and presumed judgment.
In Atlanta the frigid spell deepened to zero, prompting the Constitution to appeal for money, provisions, and fuel. About thirty wood wagons and as many provision wagons ferried aid through the city, with merchants driving relief teams. Relief distribution totaled six to ten thousand dollars in value.
A Detroit Free Press piece contrasts spring and summer beauty with a poor widow’s struggles against hunger and poverty. A pale twelve year old girl gazes from a broken pane, her life shadowed by scarcity while distant joy and the cruel cold of poverty press in. A boy later glimpses the dead child as snowflakes drift in, the fragility of life exposed by hardship.
In a tale retold by Bill Nye, a boy faces a punishment after carving on a school desk. His father offers a dollar to avert the lashing, but proposes future discipline and warns against damaging school property. The boy accepts the dollars but later cherishes the lesson and favors stricter fines.
A Danbury hat factory worker filed for a pension claiming disease limited his work. A lank stranger in a long ulster observed him and boasted he could finish more hats. The pension was denied. the visitor turned out to be a pension bureau detective testing work pace.
A satirical verse mocks fashionable vanity and social pretensions. It ridicules striving for wealth and style, mocking flirtation and displays of luxury while lampooning the lighthearted superstition of fortune and the idle bustle that passes for industry.
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