29 Jan 1887
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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Jan 29, 1887
Page
1
The article discusses which newspaper holds influence and credibility, noting The Baltimore Sun’s long-standing model family newspaper status. It highlights Sun facilities, coverage breadth, and its role supplying weekly well-digested information for farms, commerce, and finance as it goes to press.
ESTABLISHED 1819. A farm weekly devoted to farming stock raising fruit growing market gardening the dairy poultry and more. Includes fertilizers manures farm reports of farmer clubs home department for farm households. Published twice monthly by Sam L Sands Son at 224 E Baltimore St Baltimore Maryland. Subscriptions $1 per year.
A Philadelphia Times correspondent mocks white Maryland and Delaware peninsula residents for superstition about signs and omens. The piece recounts a Maryland hostess unveilling a fatal crisis after a look over her shoulder, a long friend’s rift, and a widow’s grim fate tied to impending doom beliefs. It reflects on social circles across affluence and laborers, noting diverse occurrences from door knocks to strange weather as omen tokens.
An elderly mother traveling north seeks help from a kind stranger on a train. She reveals her son John is far. she endured poverty, losing her cottage, supporting herself, and now faces rejection by her daughters in the city. She finally plans to go to John in Kansas, hoping for a place to belong and care.
An excerpt reflects on whether ancient races lack living faith, tracing deep time from Sanskrit civilization to modern ages. It contrasts apathy with fierce zeal in Mohammed’s band and Mayflower Puritans, praising primeval nature and iron health while describing a primitive, enduring humanity.
A devotional tale of enduring marriage, noting the husband’s return with a smile, their nightly prayers, shared burdens, and lasting love. It follows years of conjugal life as beauty fades yet devotion remains, ending with their ascent to a blessed afterlife together.
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