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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Jul 16, 1887
Page
1
A brief notice announces a sale of cheap and assorted goods. The item list is incomplete but indicates a clearance event offering various household and daily use items at reduced prices. Local buyers are invited to visit the sale location when details are available.
Devoted to farming stock raising fruit growing market gardening and the dairy poultry yard with a Home Department. It reports on farmers clubs and features practical farm household suggestions. Published twice monthly on the 1st and 16th priced at $1.00 a year with extra copy for a five member club. SAM L SANDS SON Publishers Baltimore Maryland.
Paris Cor. New York Graphic describes village rites in Pence France where maidens on a bridge select suitors, then dowries and rites are settled. It recalls Mantes and Richembourg practices, and extends to Russia with veiled brides, silk cords, and submissive feast customs. Old theories underpin these quirky traditions.
The 1880 census shows US fishing industry employing 151426 people with 37955349 dollars invested and a yearly product of 43046053 dollars. 6105 vessels over five tons engaged. 101084 fishermen, 30000 on shore for curing and marketing. Global comparisons follow with Britain, France, Russia, Germany, Norway, and Italy.
The Globe-Democrat notes waiters are highly migratory, more transitory than most life, aided by new summer resorts opening in the past decade. Waiters now travel across cities and climates, knowing habits at tables, with corps changing in spring after lake season opens, moving east and north.
The Courier d Haiphong cites the 1886 Bank of Indo China notes in Tonquin currency in circulation, denying any large scale counterfeiting. No sizeable number of dollars allegedly split and silver extracted has been proven, per the Chicago News.
A Buffalo Commercial Advertiser item quotes a fond wife telling John of her two week old grape price at three dollars per pound and her latest purchase at thirty six cents a pound, highlighting surprising price drop and domestic economy.
Edgar L. Wakeman's letter extols Pennsylvania Dutch integrity and plain living. It lauds honesty, industry, generosity, and avoidance of pomp, noting their reluctance to use law and the sacred return of debt. The piece highlights communal trust and straightforward conduct as lifelong virtues.
A report on Brazil under Emperor Dom Pedro II notes his long reign since 1835 and cautious stance on slavery. A 1871 law freed slaves not registered by masters, with 800,000 freed to date. A new measure aims to free the remaining 1,200,000 within two years, delaying full freedom by two years for most, with exemptions for older slaves, those who can buy freedom, and those who remarry with freed individuals.
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