22 Jan 1898
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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Jan 22, 1898
Page
1
Poetic excerpt describes a night of music and intoxicating vision, lifting the speaker to a mystic encounter with God. It speaks of the inward truth, life and death, and a path to understanding that others must seek through their own experience of the whirlwind of song.
In Rudleigh a dashing sea captain marries Mattie Hartley after a brief courtship. The captain dies soon after a baby is stolen from a perambulator, and a rival widow appears with proof that she is the captain’s true wife, forcing Mattie from the home. The village shuns the new Mrs Waters for coarse behavior and alleged cruelty to her child.
Mattie Waters endures scandal as she protects a boy she believes is her own. A pursuit from the river reveals a dying rival confessing she stole the child for wealth. Mattie forgives, reunites with her memories of Frank, and returns to her cottage with renewed faith and a son.
The former British representative to the United States Henry Stephen Fox is recalled as a tall slim, peculiarly attired figure famed for wit and eccentricities. A scion of nobility, he lived in a brick house near Washington Circle, kept to himself, avoided receptions, and spent evenings at diplomat dinners and card games.
A Cincinnati Enquirer theatre note recalls a bustling riotous business scene with a man Jones hurrying to the doctor and barber to treat a head wound. The lively portrayal is praised as perhaps the most realistic in any entertainment of the era.
A New York Sun report explains tapioca comes from a South American shrub six to eight feet high whose root and wood secrete a deadly milky juice. Heat neutralizes the poison, turning it into a safe, nourishing food. the root is pressed, heated, and transformed into commercially sold tapioca.
A friend of the family praises Mrs Meeker as a very superior woman able to converse intelligently on a thousand topics. Mr Meeker agrees in a London Figaro quote, highlighting her wide range of discussion.
The piece notes a steady irrigation based rise in Egyptian cotton output, with annual lint and seed production totaling 247.5 million pounds and 22.275 million bushels respectively. Value reaches 56.625 million dollars, up 60 percent in seven years. crop value per acre is about 69.25 dollars, production cost 46.50, net profit 22.75. A separate anecdote hints a Soto Heiress and a young man discussing marriage as a life choice.
A Idaho infantry soldier faked monomania to escape service by climbing the flagpole during dress parade. He claimed to watch Indians from the top, ignored commands, and was later captured in a net. After discharge he boasted of back pay and his new freedom.
A rural tale recounts a mean man inviting a preacher to dine with scant fare and a request for a blessing. The parson prays for gratitude and strength to reach home before dinner, in a gentle dig at hard times and thrift.
A skeptical note questions the historicity of the siege of Troy and Homer figures. It suggests Helen would have been very old when meeting Paris, calling the heroic period of the world to be a playful, antiquated notion.
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