16 Jan 1926
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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Jan 16, 1926
Page
1
M. K. Newnam offers to place an Atwater Kent radio and speaker in your home for a couple of nights with no obligation. If you like it, a simple payment plan follows. Call today and tune in on the world tonight for radio satisfaction.
A leprous former bride returns to a moonlit New Orleans square seeking a past love now sleeping on a park bench. Twenty years apart, she battles fear of exposure as she clings to a single rose and contemplates reunion with the man she once loved behind the green fence of a haunted house.
Geographers note that Mercator named after Gerard Mercator dominates modern atlas maps. While two hemispheres side by side distort toward the poles, the projection gives a bird’s eye view with accurate scale near the equator and practical navigation advantages.
Interior department engineers discover a new type of fishing in San Juan Utah a fast muddy river where fish are exhausted by silt rich water. The technique involves wading into mud with a club to stun fish and snatch them with bare hands. Named Pawhuska Dan water by Navajo residents, the river runs red with sediment and carries heavy silt load.
A recalled meeting with a pestering vegetable peddler who offered to buy frostbitten grapes for wine. Years later the speaker encounters the same man who scolds them for wasting sugar and ruining wine that would not even make vinegar, as recounted in a Chicago Tribune memory.
An unnamed narrator overhears a sophisticated dining party in a spring hotel. A young man and a poised young woman reveal a deep, unspoken attraction as social polish gives way to genuine feeling. The waiter later points out a wedding ring, signaling a concealed union.
A U S paper notes a Pennsylvania factory sells after-dinner speeches and more. It claims to have moved 3,000,000 speeches in a year with prices from 2 cents up, blocks of five for about 2 to 3 dollars, and twenty for five dollars. Other items include 800 snappy stories, 100 ideas for committees, prayers, and one hundred ways to introduce a speaker.
A Dutch scientific inquiry into the causes and prevention of colds is organized by the sanitary section of the University of Amsterdam. The 85 week study seeks to cure a widespread winter affliction as eight thousand Hollanders offer support.
A train in Arizona was boarded by robbers who rifled passengers. A New York traveling salesman, amid the loot, kept $4 from a $200 cash pile and claimed a 2 percent cash-discount on the deal while the robber pressed for more. The incident shows the sharp wheeling of a cash transaction in a crime scene.
The passage asserts knowledge empowers action and memory grants ability. It notes that while there is much we do not know, we can recall and apply what we do know. It traces can to an Anglo-Saxon root meaning to know and links knowledge with capability and exchange.
The author argues that worldly men live in constant anxiety over worldly schemes while true elevation above the world relieves ceaseless worry. He contends that rising above worldly concerns lifts one from corrosive anxiety and fear.
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