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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Jan 14, 1911
Page
3
Special sale offer lists a large stock of shoes and boots for men including heavy work shoes priced from 1.65 to 3.00 and hip boots 2.50 to 3.00 plus soft calf skin boots at 4.00. Bed blankets, horse blankets, lap robes offered with prices like 1.00 per pair.
Jenkins, a bachelor of forty, joins a woman who reads a “To Let” sign and tours a two story house. Their bond grows from shared longing and artificial barriers fall away. Years later they live as husband and wife with a caretak er’s family nearby, yet he rarely visits the original house.
An old man warns a youth that passions rooted deeply cannot be uprooted easily, urging constant self denial. The text then gives practical advice for removing foreign objects from the eye, recommending lid manipulation and eye flushing with a dropper as the safest method.
A Pittsburg Gazette-Times tale describes Mr and Mrs Eastend forgetting their key. Neighbors try ladders jimmies and even dynamite before a locksmith opens the door. The incident ends with neighbors lingering on the scene and asking, Have you got the key.
A fairy grants a farmer a wish by transforming his heavy plow into solid gold. A year later the farmer returns to labor in misery, lamenting the weight of the plow. The fairy reverses the gift, restoring the wooden plow, proving riches do not guarantee happiness. The tale ends with a wry moral on unfulfilled desires.
In eighteenth century England press limits lingered long. Not until then could papers freely attack ministers and the king. Editor Walter of the London Times faced a harsh prosecution for censuring the Duke of York and endured a fine, pillory, and imprisonment before expiration of his term.
A Chicago man was stabbed to death after a drunken brawl in a saloon. The report notes the victim died from a thoracic cavity wound, prompting questions why such a venue remains open.
A fragment from Lippincott's recalls Cadger recounting a voyage where survivors were eaten by cannibals. Badger questions why the cannibals did not eat him, and Cadger suggests a possible presence of a pure food commission on the island.
A Cleveland Plain Dealer reader notes a doctor’s reassurance that a daughter’s brain appears normal. The mother expresses surprise and claims such a condition has never occurred in the family.
In Florence I rented rooms from Senora Micele and her daughter Bianca. Ill and bedridden, I painted visions of Arno and Flosale from a balcony. Later I learned Bianca had secretly painted my imagined scenes and sold them, claiming clairvoyant power, while I recovered in Paris.
An art manager seeks a famous painter Jean Louis Ernest Meissonier to paint a theater curtain at 80 000 francs per meter. He estimates 21 000 000 francs for an 15 by 18 meter curtain and 190 years to finish twenty five centimeters of canvas. Also recounted is a naked surgeon Howarth response in a duel misadventure in Paris and related quips.
The Pittsburg Post quotes Maids of Moods discussing daughters and housework. It notes expectations differ with Muriel described as temperamental and Zaza as intense, highlighting family labor norms.
Egbert denies saying so and suggests he went to Canada to avoid settling Yonkers state context remains uncertain and framed as family dispute in a brief exchange.
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