31 Jan 1914
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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Jan 31, 1914
Page
1
In a political era tale, Kittle Dalton insists Ezra Dalton tattoo a last will on her body to keep all assets. The scheme shocks social circles and leads to a court scene where the judge orders disclosure. Attorneys barter, major heirs accept a release, and the widow gains the estate, amid courtroom intrigue and comic tension.
A Western Queensland village uses water pumped upward from a deep well at Thargomindah to generate electricity. Water under over 200 pounds pressure flows 670000 gallons daily to turn 89 turbines. The method, described in the Saturday Evening Post, claims power identical to that from falling water.
Geographische Zeitschrift reports a grim colony tragedy on Novaya Zemlya where about a hundred fishermen perished after a harsh winter cut off supply ships. An advancing scientific party found skeletal remains in abandoned huts, evidencing starvation.
A doctor known for humor and frank self description recalls a Philadelphia Ledger misquote about a dying factory victim. The piece notes the doctor arrived late, the woman died as he entered, and the paper’s wording implied too much hope. It highlights ironic miswording and the doctor’s grim amusement.
A London Chronicle quotation notes Disraeli feigning unpreparedness to enhance impression. Lord Granville recalls Plunket’s hesitancy, suggesting the Irish statesman nearly breaks down before finding a word. Disraeli admits the technique to seem unprepared.
In Lyndhurst on a frigid February morning a hidden death stirs villagers. The old Blatcher house reveals Philo Blatcher alive, returning to marry Alvina Petty after twenty years abroad. A would be killer Chinese suspect is traced and drowned, the town’s mystery resolves with Philo and Alvina reclaiming the ancestral home and happiness.
A young man admitting failure as he tried to entertain with Hamlet's soliloquy. The woman replied with a reproachful, dismissive remark, turning the moment into a critique of humor as captured in the Loudon Telegraph.
A witty exchange in the Chicago Record-Werald features an inquisitive friend asking if one should speak to a man without an introduction. The response playfully contemplates a drastic method, noting it would prompt forgiveness if used to gain politeness.
A dated quip reflects on fashion's grip, quoting a Cincinnati Enquirer line about a man with a wife and grown daughters as a slave to fashion. The remark frames clothing as social constraint rather than necessity.
The cocoanut palm native to the tropics provides food drink medicines utensils and materials for boats and homes. It bears between ages five and six and yields for 80 to 100 years. In the orient its value is high with rare court claims over a single plantation of palms.
A New York Times story recounts life in a great city boarding house where misfit romance unfolds. A tired young woman who eats alone at times and a lonely man at her table reveal fragile pretenses as they admit they have been dining with friends.
A discussion on mullahs used as a title for religious leaders across India and the East. The author labels many as mad in an oriental sense of inspired and stresses the sanctity of clerics. Ulima doctrine holds that harm to a mullah requires the death of the attacker.
An explorer recounts a tiny desert creature named the fourmilion that digs a funnel shaped hole. It lies hidden at the bottom and rains sand on any pursuing insect, blinding and suffocating it before dismembering and storing the prey for later meals.
The Gaelic language once spanned the British Isles Isle of Man and beyond with authorities tracing its reach to the Cimbri who threatened Rome. Today remnants survive in Isle of Man Wales Scotland Ireland Brittany and in New York America indicating a once widespread Celtic speech.
The Baltimore Sun notes George Washington’s early surveying work at age nineteen on Lord Fairfax’s Virginia estate used simple instruments, later verified by today’s government surveyors. It praises his patriotism, common sense, forethought and persistence, calling the youth the father of the man.
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