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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Jul 14, 1894
Page
1
A growing business moves from the Ilennegan Bates corner to Oehm's Acme Hall, enlarging to the largest house south of New York and twice the size of any in Baltimore. Operations will continue without interrupting business as prices drop.
Large sale catalog notes thousands of suits at savings from $3 to $10 per suit with prices like $6.50 and $12.00. Boys department promotes coats and suits priced at $2.50 to $5, while men’s straw hats offer regular $1.50 hats for 98 cents. Furnishings feature new shirts with linen bosom at 50 cents.
A humorous panel on electrical units and measurements contrasts with a vivid portrait of Queen Victoria’s wardrobe and royal routine. The electrician piece lampoons varying units while the Queen piece details caps mantles gowns and the meticulous care of royal dress ahead of state occasions.
A humorous anecdote recounts a theater agent mistaking a couple in a Rockford hotel dining room, nearly calling out a wife’s name to a stranger, then apologizing. The passage also surveys tobacco and coffee house history in Anne’s era, Perthshire charm, a penny in the slot machine, Japan’s centenarians, and other assorted notes.
A sweeping note details legends of blood snakes entering veins through drinking water, European studies on the parasite, and the life cycle from eggs to blood vessels. It also touches on art, marriage customs, Delacroix, and Ramadan fasting practices, highlighting cross cultural beliefs and curiosities.
Judge S P Irwin explains the Drummers of the Takimnna reservation claim a sun worship ritual practiced in a tepee every other Sunday. Men strike a drum and raise hands to heaven as part of rites to form marital bonds by a stick challenge indicating acceptance or rejection. The source notes the practice as a form of matrimony ritual.
The fragment notes Jones and Brown competing for the same office. Jones dies suddenly the day after the election. Brown then runs for coroner and serves in office, with the exchange noting the grim sequence of events.
The Baltimore Sun reports that hobos originated from Hoboken, via phrases like tough as Hoboken and Hobokenites. It notes New York Tribune’s counterclaim that the term referred to bins frequenting a Chicago saloon run by a man nicknamed Hobo, while Hoboken residents seek alternative explanations.
A lively Baltimore Sun excerpt humorously defends the cockroach as a universal pantry intruder and scavenger, noting its Lapland origin, nocturnal habits, and egg cases. It contrasts entomologist science with the home cook’s intimate battles, then shifts to Jerusalem's religious significance in Moslem tradition as described by the New York Herald.
The lecturer M A B de Guerville recalls a Korea stay as a US commissioner for a Chicago exhibit. He recounts a festival where Korean women bathe biennially, while a band from a US warship played Marching Through Georgia. Offenbach is praised for wit over learning. Oliver M Babcock forecasts Chicago reaching 10 million by 1935 with wide regional growth.
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