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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Jan 23, 1897
Page
1
A poem by Qla Moore describes an angel arriving at dusk, smiling with loving eyes, guiding cattle home and blessing children. The angel’s heavenly descent quiets the land as farm life settles into night, authorizing a peaceful close to day.
Jennie Bartlett at Barrington tollgate on a quiet night answers a late tollgate call. With her father away and her isolation, she learns the Barrington central office is seeking immediate aid, while others discuss barriering access and stopping people at the gate. The suspense hints at a serious incident unfolding beyond the tollgate.
Jennie Bartlett a hid girl defends a tollgate at night after overhearing a bank robbery plot in Woycester. She locks the gate uses a padlock and chain, and when burglars arrive they fail to breach it. Mr Allen the bank manager helps capture the thieves and praises her quick thinking. Directors award her and fund a boarding school education.
A Youth's Companion reprints an essay noting nervous people make patient fishermen and that fishing inspires contemplation. Parisian anglers are plentiful along the Seine, with writers and dramatists claiming enlightenment from angling. A minister and an applicant's tale ends with the man securing a country prefecture.
The English artist Phil May appears as a reserved, taciturn figure with a strong chin and prominent underlip and a grim smile. His generous nature stands behind a quiet exterior as he listens attentively, his keen eyes taking in details while his mind assesses them.
An English traveler reports on Shang practices in Burma frontier regions. Executions involve a death march through liquor shops then beheading, with a 300 rupee indemnity option for relatives. Marriage rites include tolls and tied hands, while funerals feature decorated coffins, a naked sword and butterfly spirit beliefs.
The legend centers on a massive Waterford owned stone said to have floated from Rome to the British Isles carrying St Patrick’s vestments a bell and candles for mass. Since Patrick’s era the sacred stone at the water’s edge draws believers tourists and devout kneeling pilgrims who crawl beneath it at low tide through a sand hollow formed by the sea.
A small man enters a Dublin hotel, pulls the bell vigorously, and rings again when no one answers. A maid asks who rang the bell, and he replies with a boastful retort about his height, prompting the servant to quip about being lifted to reach it, as reported in London Fun.
A fragment from a New Guinea piece extols the awe inspiring spirn'doob or bird of death. It claims its venom surpasses that of most serpents, with no known antidote and dire effects including pain, blindness, paralysis and death. The excerpt also includes a humorous exchange about cider.
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