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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Jul 15, 1911
Page
3
C. C. Deen of Fowling Creek Md lists a wide stock including ladies gents and children's shoes notions a felt hat 69 cents fresh groceries coffee 20 cents flour four to five dollars per barrel and pantry items like oats sugar and yeast powder in seasonal sale at the store listing multiple goods and prices.
An advertisement asserts rheumatism stems from excess uric acid and promotes Rheumacide as an internal cure. It claims rid of joint pain from within, with prices for liquid and tablet forms, and offers pamphlets and mail orders from Bobbitt Chemical Co. read in Baltimore. Local pharmacies in Newton Massachusetts and Hillsboro Maryland carry the product.
The Azoon family arrives in America believing riches await. Father and mother secure jobs while Sofie, seventeen, faces pressure from relatives to enter the street trade with Mrs Subadi. Sofie grapples with love for Josef Tahsan, a prosperous suitor, and the pull of modern Gotham as she journeys through Broadway and the city’s risks.
Sofie, a naive young girl, meets Robert Mayhew, a stylish American millionaire, on Broadway. He invites her for an afternoon drive, they share a luxurious ride, he advances romantically, and she defends herself with a knife. After a struggle she escapes, returning home exhausted and frightened.
Abdul Hamid, the former sultan of Turkey, slept in seven beds located in separate rooms. He changed his resting place nightly to avoid hidden dangers, using sloped couches and a susurrant floor alarm to warn of intruders as Count Gleichen recounts in Household Brigade Magazine.
A Washington parent recounts a tale of his young son who has not shaved yet but is eager to try. The child reads the newspaper and claims the corporation will bust the president, then later returns with the father’s broken razor wrapped in a newspaper, quipping never believe anything you see in the newspaper.
A New York Globe item notes housewives pay 25 cents for so called magic cloths that clean silver without touching skin or clothing. It describes making a cloth with gasoline whiting and olive acid, soaking wool, drying in shade, and claims the cloth never loses its mangle qualities.
An anecdote from G W Small about Lady Randolph Churchill hosting a dinner at Connaught Place titled a dinner of deadly enemies. The guest list included well bred people who recognized obligations to their hostess and, though ancient animosities softened, the gathering was described as a hazardous experiment that proved a complete success with all parties suspended.
The Scrap Book recounts Joseph Be G Ryan the Chicago storyteller on a cross country train held up near Reno. Two drummers in opposite seats resisted as robbers demanded money. One drummer slipped a few bills into his friend's hand with the whispered line Here, old man, here's the fifty I owe you.
A fragmentary piece mixes poetry with a comic anecdote about a mildly drunk club man in an Indianapolis barber shop. The man enjoys a shave and face massage before jokingly asking to have teeth pulled, highlighting a humorous romp in a late era newspaper tone.
A prominent young woman recalls a local romance where Henry Blank declined Mrs Wood's invitation for the nineteenth in formal terms of thanks in Lippincott style. The anecdote highlights social ritual and polite correspondence in OlJo town society.
The writer Mr. Ricandelle-Burton describes failed attempts to teach a compositor to distinguish v from n in his roanscript. He devises a scheme placing humorous drawings opposite doubtful nu and u letters, hoping for clearer proofs as the next batch begins with the odd phrase The sevewehendrel slewehenk away.
Colonel Fred Hale of Portland Maine visits H C Emery of the tariff board in Washington. Emery showcases thirty six granite monoliths on the Fifteenth Street side of the Treasury Building, costing ten thousand dollars each. Hale quips about their origin and wonders where his father Eugene Hale is.
In Springfield Massachusetts during a large church service a storm forces a choir member to summon an omnibus to take ladies home. Dr Holland aids Miss Etta S into the carriage when a thunderclap occurs and he remarks Et in terra pax hominibus. He does not die then but years later passes peacefully in his bed.
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