24 Jan 1925
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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Jan 24, 1925
Page
1
The store announces a week long white sale beginning Tuesday January 27 featuring deep discounts on white goods and textiles. Nainsook longcloth and India linen items show price cuts from regulars to sale rates with patterns exciting shoppers.
Special Quality Silk and Cotton Crepe for Teddies Bloomers or Shirts advertised at 85c now 63c, offering light fabric options for garments.
Roy Borden, once a gifted writer, sinks into drink and lets Duke Bellew pose as a famed author to win Elida Tresham. Bellew's polished imposture attracts her mother and Alden Hope, a poor artist. A reveal exposes Bellew, while Hope's painting Sympath y wins Academy recognition and Elida chooses the earnest artist over the fraud.
An Atlanta Constitution column cites Pierre Van Paassen on Ludwig Lewisohn and Victor Hugo, noting the thorny path to independence of spirit. It recounts Hugo’s early poverty with vivid anecdote of a butcher shop meal, illustrating the hardship endured before recognition.
Three men at a hotel discuss favorite game foods pheasant partridge and quail. They ask a waiter to decide and he quips that he would rather have an American eagle served on a silver platter, a line likely to have been well received at the time.
William Lyon Phelps recalls a summer in Detroit when a church on Woodward Avenue paid him twelve golf balls for preaching. He notes his amateur status meant no cash, and the gift of golf balls sparked a humorous aside about the twelve tribes of Israel. One ball reportedly later disappeared.
The piece notes chocolate arriving in 1624 with Spain bringing it from Central America, its Paris vogue, and a 1657 London advertisement in Bishopsgate street and Queen's Head alley. It describes the West India drink sold at a Frenchman's house, available ready or unmade at reasonable rates.
Helium supply hope arises in the foothills of the Black Hills South Dakota as analyses from wells indicate a odorless non flammable gas with lower specific gravity than illuminating gas, offering near term use for experiments with lighter than air craft.
A Boston Transcript quip notes a youngster asking why desks have square holes. The reply explains they are pigeon holes, inviting a playful exchange on desk design and storage.
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