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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Jan 26, 1924
Page
6
A daughter schemes to hold off bidders for her father's factory at auction at 3 o'clock. She lures Don Seymour on a road trip and maroons him on a lakeside cabin island to thwart the rich investors. He senses the trap, but hints at a possible night together as plans unfold.
Though anger stirred after a staged crisis, Seymour and the girl forgive each other as the rescue ferries them to shore. The father’s arrival reveals a righted ruse and a pledge to fish together again soon.
An irrigation project adopts a novel method to slow swift flows by embedding large boulders in a concrete ditch bed. Hundreds of rocks, as big as a man, are buried in the canal to create resistance and reduce flow, delivering water gently to a lower basin for transfer via a secondary ditch.
The Itesalibrary in Stockholm reportedly houses the largest Bible with four inch thick sold plank covers and parchment pages a yard long. The Washington seminary holds the smallest complete Bible known as the thumb Bible. A New York man’s crippled son reportedly spent years transcribing Bible text daily with flawless red ink headings. A London apprentice produced a shorthand Bible during James I’s era. An American woman possesses a table made from an ancestor’s bread loaf during a house to horse seared copy era.
A terse family exchange centers on a son's ability to meet expenses and the suitability of the new son in law. The dialogue hints at financial strain and concerns over guardianship and marriage arrangements without explicit outcomes.
A humorous dialogue unfolds as a doctor on a mountain road discusses a mysterious illness. The mother-in-law insists the case is smallpox, prompting skepticism about her diagnostic claim. The exchange highlights playful doubt about lay diagnosis.
An engraved dinner anecdote features Joseph Conrad who claims never to have visited a night club. The Leicester Squire club allegedly posted a notice claiming the management may exclude any gentlemen they deem proper. The humor pivots on a misread or pruned phrase from a past notice.
A fragment from the Groollyn Citizen features quotes in a dialect warning a Black person not to flirt with danger, with threats of harm and defiant responses about jesting and pressuring. The passage preserves local color and tense frontier rhetoric without clear event details or dates.
Janey Stoddard learns to drive a family roadster after a dramatic accident. She aids her injured father with a makeshift tourniquet and speeds for Doctor Steadman, while Ma Stoddard initially opposes the car’s use. In the end Ma joins the Ladies' Aid meeting, and Janey winks at her father as he approves the change.
A noted psychologist argues most fears are learned after infancy. He tested infants with animals and fires, finding two innate fears: loud noises and losing support. He notes adults react similarly to sudden horn sounds and missing stability, while all other fears are built like a house of blocks.
From Saxony comes word that aluminum sheets are substituting wood for stage scenery. The Chemnitz opera house adopted the cost saving material after wood prices rose. Aluminum resists fire, allows painting on both sides, and enables easy erasure and replacement while preserving acoustics and matching original sheet size.
The text argues for stabilizing the economy through coordinated development plans and cautious expansion. It cites Dennison company policies as a model for aligning business practice with the cycle, stressing that success comes from understanding and controlling the cycle rather than chasing booms. It notes individual traders seek profits in booms and losses in busts, urging disciplined strategy.
Researchers Dr Legrande and Dr Pape report to the French Academy of Science that sea worms off the French coast engage in moonlit mating dances. Males circle females as eggs are released, creating emerald colored cocoons on the backs of the larvae in a submarine nuptial display.
The immigration base allows entry after a year of residence in Mexico Canada Newfoundland Cuba or Central or South America bypassing numeric quotas. In the last nine months about 62 000 Canadians and a number of Americans crossed borders into the United States.
A humorous exchange in Russia shows a bead and his junior partner debating the value of soup wrappers and cigarette coupons as money. The correspondent notes that paper has lost intrinsic value, prompting the idea to slip tags despite objections.
A humorous antiquated exchange unfolds as a debutante hosts a first dinner party and negotiates with a famed singer. The singer quotes a fee of twelve fames, the hostess counters, and the comedian delivers a wry alternative, eight fames, highlighting the social quirks of engagement etiquette.
A London dispatch to the New York Evening Post reports salt water or seawater can form the basis of future soft drinks for hot climates. Experiments on miners show that a small daily salt amount reduces exhaustion and prevents miner's cramp, with about one-third of an ounce in a gallon of water making workers feel stronger. Prof I Neville Ross of Birmingham University observed large sweat and respiration losses during long shifts in hot conditions, and noted increased salt intake among miners in hot settings.
Rear Admiral John K. Robinson recounts a friend famed for a single after-dinner speech about Patrick Henry. The tale parodies how horse cally microbes echo liberty or death while discussing transportation costs and communications, recalling a line from the Philadelphia Public Ledger.
A survey by Dus Transportation editors shows about 1000 motor busses run by over 100 electric railways across 1500 miles of routes in the United States and Canada. Since 1922 the number has nearly doubled from 56 companies and 350 busses on 900 miles. Wisconsin leads with 800 miles served by Wisconsin Motor Bus Lines. Wisconsin’s fleet totals 100 modern busses. Pacific Electric and Los Angeles Railway operate 11 routes in Southern California.
A sea captain aboard a ship near Santa Barbara captured a young seal hoping to rear it. The mother seal followed the vessel and, after the infant was placed in a sack, the mother pierced the sack and retrieved her baby after an eighty mile chase.
Gen Richard Irving Dodge notes the buffalo provided almost everything for Plains Indians and the survival system of caves on the Llano Estacado. He recalls Stone Chief claiming exact cave locations, the abundance of buffalo, and fear that white slaughter might starve the tribe if the caves were sealed.
A man named Smith, who usually vacationed in May, chose August this year. He found hotel charges far higher than his usual May rates, leaving him shocked by the bill. On leaving, the landlord urged a note in the visitors’ book, prompting Smith to write a wry summary about getting change from the waiter and landlord.
The article discusses overpopulation in Britain and unemployment, arguing immigration to dominions like Canada, Australia, and South Africa could ease poverty and bolster farming. It notes Canada offering 160 acres to newcomers while requiring agricultural tests following London Imperial Conference. It also reports a proposal to drop leap year in 3000 A D and omitting leap years to extend calendar accuracy.
Anita Knox, six, enjoys new friends and a social debut in a New Jersey town after moving from the city. Her four-year-old brother, Boy, interrupts a doll display by calling her a nut, ending her highbrow ambitions and social leadership.
Render's Handbook notes that Napoleon II was titled king of Rome at birth but spent youth as Austrian heir. He became Duke of Reichstadt in 1818 and died near Vienna in 1832. The article argues the title mimicked Charlemagne, a misnomer since Charlemagne was patriarch of Rome, not king of Rome.
George B Morse Jr of the Chicago Zoological Society explains a newborn kangaroo weighed about nine grains and measured a bit over an inch long. The birth was witnessed after isolating the mother in a observing room to confirm a pouch animal’s birth. The young kangaroo began life with perfect front legs and a tail tinged by growth, and will remain in the mother's pouch for seven ninths of its early life.
In Bagdad during a housing shortage an 8 Minn furniture van owner is approached by a citizen who asks to rent the van. The dialogue reveals the citizen intends to use the van as a home, highlighting the era's extreme housing scarcity.
A mother offers parsley sauce in a restaurant. Bessie, eager to try, insists she would like it though she has not tasted it, claiming she has read about it in the Bibre. She cites a man who was sick of parsley as the reason to sample it.
A dialogue between John and his future wife hints at a large household with three servants after marriage. The exchange shows polite humor about expectations and social norms of domestic staffing.
A polite man hesitates when asked if he has met before, placing a hand to his forehead. He replies with halting, awkward phrasing about pleasure and experience, as quoted by the Yorkshire Post.
In a humorous exchange, young Tompthing asks which weeds are easiest to kill. Farmer Jones answers with a pun, saying widow’s weeds wilt easily if you simply say wilt thou. The light joke showcases rustic wordplay amid farm life.
Dr C W Kimmins Gilchrist lecturer at the University of London spoke in New York about laughter in children. He noted American kids better at humor due to Mark Twain Bret Harte traditions and Dickens readers, claiming London children start laughing at seven, improving to eleven but little growth from eleven to thirteen.
A Washington scientist describes US rainfall as equivalent to ten Mississippi rivers in constant flow. Measured as thirty inches for the nation, it totals 152 trillion cubic feet, roughly half the water needed to sustain soil productivity. One third drains away to sea and rivers, leaving engineers to maximize natural supply.
Professor Galeazzi describes an appliance enabling blind people with maimed arms to read Braille through an ivory die with six electric contacts. The device attaches to the arm and uses electric sensations transmitted via wires to the abdomen to convey each Braille letter.
A six year old girl shows keen interest in singing at her sister's wedding. She asks to sing and offers a plan with the line Weaven Look With Pity. Her father has not yet agreed to the request.
The Detroit News describes Angolan craft in which terra cotta bellows and goatskin lungs work with a clay pipe to create a blast for iron forging. Natives use rock anvils and rough tools to fashion knives hoes tomahawks and to repair firearms.
A flirtatious exchange unfolds at a dance as he professes love and asks for a kiss. She challenges his pace and demands a proper introduction before marriage, revealing a comic, reactive rhythm to the social scene.
A humorous quip about an efficiency expert at the office. Colleagues recall his lack of success, noting he demonstrated a new method to beat the time clock, offered fresh excuses for lateness, and joked about pawning the boss's cigars without getting caught.
By decree of Caroline County Circuit Court in a suit where Annie E Heather is plaintiff and Isa belle McGurley et al are defendants, the trustee named in the decree will offer for sale to the highest bidder at the courthouse door in Denton Maryland on an announced date.
A legal notice sets a February 1 1924 second election district Greensboro sale between 2 and 4 pm for all rights in a house and lot described in a 1835 deed from John Dunning to John C. Williams. The property lies with the Choptank river and is subject to ground rent to Peter Harrington heirs under a 99 year lease, part of the Ingram tract about a quarter acre.
The decree prescribes terms of sale: half cash on sale day, balance in six months. The deferred payment, if any, must be secured by an interest bearing note from the purchaser, with security approved by the trustee. Purchaser bears tile papers and revenue stamps. Cavey, Auct. Trustee CALVERT C MERRIKEN LEONARD F Cavey.
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