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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Jan 18, 1902
Page
4
A humorous tale from Youth's Companion describes Mr. Smith whose patient generosity with a new neighbor leads to a running loan of tools. After weeks the neighbor returns many items, then keeps borrowing shows restraint, and finally keeps the ladder too as Mr. Smith reveals a new one. The neighbor never borrows again.
A fat breathless actor in a military drama fails to hide his poor acting as he nears death on stage. The audience mocks the panting corpse until it rises to scold the crowd and demand respect for the dead.
Bank cashiers and tellers detect counterfeit notes by instinct and feel as well as sight. Experts note counterfeits rely on inferior uniform features, and genuine notes use high quality engraving, printing, and paper from government supplied sources.
A New York businessman reportedly sends a telegram stating No Price too high. His wife uses the message to justify a purchase of lace and other goods totaling 88,000. Upon return, the husband asks to see the telegram, revealing a mispunctuated reply: No. Price too high.
The report recalls Lorenzo Dow delivering the shortest sermon on record by climbing a sapling to illustrate backsliding then sliding down to conclude with the single remark Told on there Dow hold on. It also recounts a Irish traveler’s encounter at a hill near Tullaghan where a peasant woman quips That for shore must be nothin short ay Spain yer banner in response to a question about origin.
An editor recalls a hurried story where a correspondent misdescribes an injured man as having a right forelegs. The editor ignores the odd phrasing, the compositor sets the foreleg, and the proofreader catches the four leg error, revealing how mistakes slip into print.
Article notes Japanese smoking practices with small metal bowl pipes, bamboo stems, and metal mouthpieces. Tobacco is finely cut and pale in color, high quality. Smokers take a quick whiff and inhale, emitting smoke through the nostrils, rarely finishing more than one pipeful at a time.
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