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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Jul 04, 1903
Page
7
A New York Post tale recounts an aged first mate who teaches weather signs to locals through a shop labeled Society Weather Bureau Neptunic Knuckknacks. He offers 50 cents for half hour lessons with charts and instruments, claiming practical skill in predicting weather from cloud, wind, and color cues.
In a rural English exhibition two hogs with taxidermist placards spark remark on identity. A Canada Ottawa tale shows an Indian and governor general quipping about cold. Indians use masks in Kok ko ceremonies and bear dances. A highwayman tale ends with a shot. Indian mask roles include thunderbird and animal heads. Sports chat ends with a dating mix up scene.
Afr Bascomb encounters a sunset gun at dawn in a humorous sketch from Youth's Companion. He doubts modern marvels such as talking machines and underground rails, insisting the sun cannot power a gun without visible labor. The tale mines clash between old beliefs and new inventions.
A whimsical Judge cartoon notes Cadmus inventing letters then capital letters to moralize reading. In Ballybunion Ireland waves drive iron pyrites and alum from cliff rocks, exposing a long burning, volcanic heat that flames the cliffs for weeks with smoke and vapor rising.
An anecdote links English painter Stothard’s precise pen and ink method to his fame noting that he studied from antiquities at the academy and chose unalterable lines to force careful thinking. A separate tale recounts Farmer Button’s accident in a dark market area after a collision with two carts. Egyptian astronomy and a Burma war anecdote about Lord Combermere and the Duke of Wellington are touched upon in brief historical sketches.
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