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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Jan 31, 1925
Page
6
In a dusty office Lisle and David Porter seal a renewed fortune after a vase crashes revealing hidden banknotes. Beulah Lisle, in love with Porter, faces marriage to a Burton suitor as they unite to revive the business and share risks and rewards.
In the Kansas City Times Tommy Micheel argues voice reveals character. He recalls a call where he judged a stranger by voice, not appearance or words. He claims honest men have honest voices while thieves show deceitful tones, and urges readers to study voices on the phone.
The Narwhal crew sought treasure in the South seas but found wealth beyond gold. They gained new health and vigor, with blood renewed and a zest to work, achieve, and persevere. Their true treasure is lasting well being and renewed energy.
The tale recounts Dick Whittington, famed English merchant and future London lord mayor. Hearing the Bow Bells cry Turn again Whittington, he returned to London and rose to the prophesied position through humble beginnings as a scullion.
New Orleans port, publicly owned, sits 110 miles from the Gulf of Mexico and is valued over 100 million dollars. The public wharves run along the Mississippi River for more than five miles.
In Rome the Vatican houses two valuable crowns. One was given by Napoleon to Pope Pius XII and is said to contain the world’s largest emerald. The other was presented by Queen Isabella of Spain to Pope Pius IX and is valued at about two million dollars.
A short reflective note attributes to Marle Corelli the idea of an ever-lying spirit within each person. It claims this internal spirit has unlimited capacity regardless of surroundings, urging clear understanding of the psychic life.
A Montreal Herald piece describes tangled kinship from second marriages. A Corsican wife becomes her own grand-niece through a chain of in laws. An American grandfather ends as his own grandson via step relationships, while a German village traces bizarre ties from a double marriage. The tales mix elder kin and spouses in improbable links.
A writer notes swings attached to temple pillars play a key role in Hindu festivals. High stone posts and crossbars hold iron chains for swinging, seen as pleasing to the temple deity. In peak season demand rises, priests stage ceremonies, and street swings can hinder traffic. Local authorities face resistance to removal.
Hungarian violinist Edouard Remeny died of apoplexy on May 15, 1808, during a performance at the Orpheum theater in San Francisco. It was his first grand ville stage appearance, where he was warmly received after playing two or three classical pieces and an encore. He collapsed after starting Delibes Pizzicat, with Braluns once serving as his accompanist on tour.
A concise description of relief engraving and wood engraving where ink fills hollowed areas and paper takes the impression, with notes on printing on damp paper. It also mentions intaglio methods like etching and mezzotint or tinting for textured surfaces, defining each process briefly.
The Washington Star notes that there is no law preventing third degree torture of women and that in places where the system is prevalent it is applied to men and women equally. Torture for extracting confessions has existed since early history, including post Revolutionary America.
A Portsmouth Ohio seamstress fixed a worn sewing task by attaching a flashlight to her sewing machine. A brass clamp and bolts hold the light to the machine, illuminating the needle area when on.
The National Rifle Association says that after smokeless powder residue remains and the barrel is pitted nothing can fix the condition. Rifles and pistols should be cleaned immediately after firing. Use warm water to swab the barrel dry carefully then apply heavy grease to prevent rust.
Scholars place St. Paul’s short epistle to Titus during a brief freedom after his first Rome imprisonment and before his second. Nicopolis in Epirus, called the City of Victoria, was built by Augustus to commemorate Actium, the 31 B C naval victory. Tradition holds Paul was imprisoned there a second time before his Rome voyage.
A Texas farmer sold a pig that escaped overnight and returned to its old sty. An Illinois pig did the same, traveling 14 miles back home after sale. Darwin noted pigs can match dog sagacity, with anecdotes of pigs used for hunting, burden work, rounding up sheep, and even drawing a carriage for an eccentric English nobleman.
A golfer angrily flings his putter into a potato field after missing a short putt on the ninth at Muirflela. Fiery, walking toward the next hole, is asked to retrieve it but replies that he is paid to carry, not fetch and carry.
The forest service warns that reduced forest cover lowers watershed sponge capacity, increasing flood risk during wet periods like snowmelt. While forests lessen floods, removing too much canopy raises danger as streams shrink from land being converted to arable use.
The United States consumes over 1.6 trillion wooden matches yearly about 37 per person daily based on 110 million residents. Europe averages 14 matches per person daily. Global output reaches about 4.08 trillion matches annually with a value near 200 million dollars.
The epithet learned black smith was given to Elihu Burritt the American reformer author and linguist. He began life as a blacksmith about 1827 and later mastered 18 languages and 22 dialects according to the Kansas City Star.
The term picnic emerged in the Finger Lakes region of northern New York where Hector residents held a Sunday school outing. They planned to “pick” up knickknacks and go into the woods, and this activity reportedly gave the word its start.
A low cost cement can be made by mixing one part sand two parts wheat flour and one part sifted coal ashes, stirred with water to a putty-like consistency. The mixture is applied with a trowel to fill crevices cracks and holes and repair wall breaks.
A New York judge allows a wife to preside over a case and sentence her husband. When asked for comment, he responds with no remarks, saying no, never. The unusual bench arrangement is noted in the Detroit News report.
A fragment quotes a Fleld Ing line advising that praising folly or deceit earns a warm reception from fools and knaves, highlighting a referenced adage on social cunning and flattery.
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