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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Jul 10, 1920
Page
6
A Bible study outlines the friendship of Jonathan and David from 1 Samuel. It highlights vow, sacrifice, and courage as core virtues, with lessons on choosing friends, integrity, and mutual support under God.
A compact collection of aphorisms explores how impulses drive action and how life’s glory lies in doing what seems impossible. It notes that unseen losses hurt most, and true wealth is mental, not material, with character forming from purposeful growth.
A simple formula uses 25 pounds wheat bran and one pound green or white arsenic plus six finely chopped lemons or oranges, low-grade molasses two quarts. Scatter over fields for control, noting cooperation is needed to prevent new invasions from neighboring farms.
Writer Laments the loss of personal responsibility in a machine dominated world. In a Scientific Monthly piece, Capt Frank A Waugh argues modern society overvalues machinery from food to coffins. He urges handcrafted work as education for wounded soldiers and a remedy for dehumanized labor.
Government orders permanent abandonment of 15 villages in the Aisne district and 17 in Marne as sites deemed too dangerous to rebuild. Land will be held until safety can be ensured, leaving farmlands and refugees to endure with government signs marking the ruins.
The rise in American demand has boosted Chinese silk exports to the United States to about 25 percent. U.S. enterprise spurred by a moving picture reel showed Japanese methods, prompting Chinese producers to adapt to Western preferences, accelerating industry growth.
The article explains a method for growing door mats in America using old sacking, common brass seed, and grass seed. Sacking is moistened, arranged on a level surface, and covered to shade from sun for about a week. Grass sprouts after ten days, the mat is rotated to loosen roots, and after another week it dries to a green mat ready for use. The grass roots cling to the canvas due to entangled root hairs, making removal difficult when dead.
A fragmentary excerpt states that Earth is a plastic globe with three factors governing life and death. It asserts organic life arises from vegetable and chemical processes, animals rely on plants for food, all return to earth, and waste is a necessary living cycle explained in an Exchance quotation.
A traveler notes large printed notices in Venice hotels and restaurants declaring tips forbidden. The London Daily Mail reports that tipping has been abolished in Venice and broadly in Italy, with terms like absolutely forbidden and severely prohibited used in notices.
Army veteran Sir Hamar Greenwood recounts a youth at sixteen fleeing Canada to join the army. His father pursued, found him on sentry duty, and was arrested for rushing the guard as the young recruit stood proudly.
Pauline Bainbridge helps in a late night mission with Dr Wheeling to care for Martha Williams on Oak Street. The old couple’s bond strengthens as Pauline feeds and comforts them assisting the ailing husband and wife, while the doctor forecasts a possible rally.
A couple rides in a car with Nic waking up nearby. Pauline remains silent before admitting she longs for intimate marriage. The man asks about her trouble, and she cries, revealing her pent-up feelings to his shoulder as they pause their journey.
The article traces the origins of money terms from Moneta and Juno, explains sterling from the Hansa Esterlings invited by King John, and outlines coin names and values. It notes the shift in English money, the origin of the dollar from Joachim’s thaler, and terms like cent quarter nickel dime and diameter from historical language roots in the Louisville Courier-Journal.
An Abyssinian funeral rite describes newborn death mourning and burial. After an infant dies the body is washed with sweet water, wrapped in a mat and straw, and laid on a bough bier. Relatives lament loudly while neighbors join the procession, women chant, and after a religious ceremony the corpse is interred in the churchyard.
In the United States the Smiths appear oldest among families with records of a Smith named Stith rising in the East. Early Stiths formed a banquet with many Smith guests and Captain Smith as president of Virginia. Cooks waiters and a poet Smith contributed to an ode later issued by publisher Sitth.
The British education minister notes errors in classic novels including Ivanhoe and Dean Quixote with claims of racial distinctions and anachronistic scenes. The piece also comments on Mrs Ward and Pope missteps. Europe takes to chewing gum as Americans export $2,101 20 in 1108 and England buys most of it.
In Caroline county Circuit Court suit Mary C. Smith et al. vs Wingate Neal et al. seeks a decree to sell a 150 acre farm to partition William J. Neal died 1920 intestate, listing heirs including Mary C. Smith and many Neal descendants. Nonresident defendants in Delaware are warned to appear by July 20, 1920, with publication required weekly for four weeks.
A Louisville Courier Journal remark notes that the topic of loss has been exhaustively covered yet asserts the interested girl may still find the beginner as convincing as Shakespeare.
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