13 Jul 1901
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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Jul 13, 1901
Page
1
Easton merchants promote two weeks of special prices on woolen dress goods wash and white goods with Dimities Batistes and Foulards priced at 50c to $1 per yard. Men’s and boys’ clothing also discounted, urging shoppers to drive in for broad selection and prompt service.
This Department we are especially proud of. For Artistic Millinery we are headquarters, and will save you at least 25 per cent. on your purchases. When in Easton make our store your headquarters. We want you to feel perfectly at home plenty of space for you. Comfortable waiting room for ladies and children. We want your trade, and in order to get it we will make a special effort to please you in Quality and Price. I have the largest stock on the Shore to select from, and our prices as low, quality considered, as can be found anywhere.
A New York Sun report quotes an all around artist who explains how returning tourists flood his market with unmarked photographs. He notes tourists rush through sights, buy generic mementos, and later fake familiarity. He describes sorting, cataloguing, and correcting amateur photos to restore order and accuracy, boosting happiness and income.
A shoe denier explains the practice of selling single shoes to one legged customers. Each shoe is numbered and matched back to its stock. the single shoe costs about half a pair, with a premium for returning the mate to the factory. The example cites a $4 pair yielding $1.65 for a single shoe. Washington Star reports the method.
At a formal dinner in England Hawthorne faced a taunting question about a queen’s autograph letter. He deftly answered that it showed kind feeling but, on style, noted the queen has a perfect right to do as she pleases with her own English.
Delaware averages 60 feet above sea level as the lowest state while Colorado tops the list at 6800 feet. Wyoming follows closely, Florida and Louisiana contend for second place, and the nation’s average elevation is just above the global land average.
A collection of jokes and mishearings from diverse origins. A Frenchman jokes about finding a knife, a Scotsman quips about a butcher’s half beef, a German advertises a pig with no earmarks, and a Vermont deacon blesses a “poor young monk” father and mother. A British magistrate comments on a vagabond’s wife, and a negro ball doorkeeper explains “Not transferable” tickets with humor.
A Philadelphia street car scene shows a young man asking a black man to offer his seat to a lady, then quickly taking the seat himself. A washerwoman enters, and the man finally offers the seat, provoking the young woman's indignation.
The text recalls Parisian street notices after war began between France and Germany in 1870 showing boasting entries about maps and dictionaries for Berlin. It climaxes with a Prussian officer refusing to pay a cab fare saying a man should not pay for his own funeral.
In a London Answers journal anecdote a town mayor in England considers lending a small sum to a local rag man known as Talking Tim. Tim asks for funds to buy a donkey and cart to start a rag and bone business and proposes naming the donor's donkey after the mayor if he is repaid.
A historical note explains that a Malabar province chief received land as reward for service from a monarch. The land extended to where a temple’s crowing could be heard, giving birth to a town named Calicoda then Calicut. The name Calico for cotton goods in England traces to this place.
Farm jesting contrasts cows that yield 00 pounds of milk at 4 percent and 8 000 pounds at 6 percent. The first cow earns $60 profit while the second loses $100, depending on feed costs and prices. Some doubt milk value, others enjoy luxuries. the dairy cow burdens the farmer with expenses.
Ainslee's notes that modern Japan shows insatiable curiosity and quick adoption of useful ideas. Japanese onlookers crowd rail platforms and watch foreigners with keen, unshaken interest, while locals in Tokyo homes observe guests daily from windows with vivid scrutiny.
A Welsh custom sees a sin eater hired to swallow sins at a funeral. Bread and beer pass over the corpse and the eater takes the sins, freeing the deceased soul. If no sin eater is hired, wine and biscuits are shared among bearers, each guest contributing a shilling when arvel bread is circulated.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan critiqued Dundas as using memory for jokes and imagination for facts in the house of commons. He noted the remark was found in Sheridan's notebook years earlier. The wit was expanded to mock the composer Michael Kelly and his wine trade, ending with a punchy Commons closing line.
The passage argues that good breeding shows in relaxed, proper hand use and poised demeanor. It cites examples of Elizabethan courtiers who handled the sword hilt gracefully and Spanish coquettes who masterfully use a fan as a social signal.
The text surveys bellows history from Egypt under Thothmes III around 1490 B C to Greek and Roman use. It notes the common two-lobed form with a feather, Strabo falsely crediting Anacharsis, and mentions wooden bellows appearing in sixteenth century Germany with unknown inventor.
An old demonstration describes weighing a pound of feathers and a pound of lead, then placing them in an air pump apparatus. With air, feathers appear heavier due to buoyancy, while in a vacuum the two weigh the same. The tale includes a dialogue about a marriage proposal and a brief anecdote about Senator Wilkinson Call's quiet senate reception, plus a whimsical soldier named Jack Sullivan diagnosed with mono mania.
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