31 Jan 1891
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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Jan 31, 1891
Page
1
An excerpt presents a melancholic verse fragment by Frederic Herbert Treoch. The lines express nocturnal restraint, dreamlike ascent, and the burden of thoughts guiding the speaker beyond speech tonight.
A humorous tale follows Willis Herdgson a thrift clerk in a western village and two wealthy women Miss Olie Murray and her aunt as they push him toward marriage for money. A meddling note from Miss Jemima Zachray exposes the ruse but Willis chooses true love with Olie resulting in a genuine courtship and a happy ending.
A servant, late to the kitchen, is found ill after taking medicine labeled for children. She misread the bottle, believing thirty drops for an adult applied to herself as an emetic, causing severe sickness. Her mistress questions the dosage and notes the medicine nearly turned her insides out.
A London Tit-Bits fragment shows a passenger complaining to a porter about unclear station names. The porter replies with a quip calling the passenger a fellow worker who expects to be paid for singing as a porter. The exchange captures humorous street dialogue and railway life.
A manufacturer sells India rubber shoes for dogs with tender or injured feet in three sizes. Dogs suffer sore feet more than commonly thought, especially in winter when freezing ground and sharp projections injure paw pads.
A discussion of formal evening dress for gentlemen, noting black cravats and swallowtails as ideal after dusk, followed by a light exchange featuring a Weybosset Street lawyer and coal dealer over legal fees. The piece shifts to a station anecdote about two young women and an elder, then to measurements of heads by nationality and a French scientist’s claim on American dental gold usage.
W A Kerr of New York notes Americans have gem stones and mining exists. Rock crystal, jet, tourmaline, moonstone, sapphires, rubies and garnets found in several states. Tourmalines valued high from Mount Mica Maine. Moonstone in Virginia. New Mexico sapphires rubies garnets. He predicts future U S wealth and city growth.
A Oshkosh resident is described as a hustler who serves as a stenographer and typewriter for three legal firms and handles work for lumber firms. He also reports for two daily newspapers and plays in a brass band, reporting events when the band is not playing.
A Belfast youth hunts partridge and hens, loses his gun, and pays for hens and potential eggs as the farmer settles a dispute. Separately, a Gen Vallejo anecdote recalls Patti asking about his first opera in 1828 San Francisco with a chorus of coyotes.
A Springfield Homestead recounts finding a large sand turtle in a barrel while water tending. The narrator recalls mistaking it for a tadpole and being surprised to discover Muddy, who has appeared yearly for over a dozen years, albeit with a damaged claw and cracked shell from the encounter.
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