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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Jul 16, 1927
Page
2
A Liberty writer argues city life erodes traditional gender traits as women grow masculine and men feminine. He cites shared work, transit, and leisure as blurring lines, noting cities harden women and soften men. The countryside is praised as a restorer, with urban clerks reverting to rustic habits in crisis.
The vitrified Dunagoil fort on Bute reveals remains of a blacksmith shop ornamented bracelets and writing implements. Artifacts date 200 B C to 100 B C with bones of red deer and native animals showing ancient diet. Fort walls 12 feet thick with rubble interior sealed by brushwood and clay, burned to fuse stones into a primitive reinforced concrete precursor.
Protracted studies and social mixing described for Spinoza, Socrates, Falzac, Dr. Samuel Clarke, and Doctor Swift. The text notes Spinoza joining family conversations and provoking spiders, Socrates playing with children, Falzac drawing crayon portraits, Clarke leaping over furniture, Swift running stair steps, and Johnson remarking on Swift’s endurance in old age.
A correspondent asks who would receive a presidential resignation. Pathfinder Magazine notes a 1792 law requiring a signed written instrument of refusal or resignation delivered to the secretary of state as sole evidence of nonacceptance or resignation.
A Nature Magazine note explains that stone and cave crickets are not true crickets but wingless grasshoppers. Young grasshoppers are wingless, yet these insects thrive without wings their entire lives. They do not sing with wings and thus remain voiceless.
A British shipping company officer told by doctors he had less than a year to live moved to Tasmania. The company granted a pension to be drawn briefly, but he collected it for 83 years, dying in Tasmania at age 104. The story highlights the claim that Tasmania was the healthiest spot in the British Empire.
Brit ish women increasingly take colonial service posts abroad, often as nurses or secretaries, facing lonely postings in places such as St Vincent Hong Kong Straits Settlements Gold Coast Bahamas and Nigeria. A medical officer and an education department appointee have been named in Hong Kong and the Straits Settlements.
An exploration of ancient superstition tied to the measuring worm and fate. The piece argues that primitive thought misreads a worm’s motions as measuring human life and foreboding, noting children's fears and cultural associations with danger.
An editorial from Liberty argues popular speech often precedes grammar. It notes ain’t and it’s me as examples, praising language evolution and noting the social shift as expressions move from vulgar to accepted. It contrasts ain’t with am not aren’t and isn’t, and cites usage by politicians and lawyers.
Edward Maynard, born in Madison, New Jersey, is noted as the first dentist to fit the nerve cavity with gold and as mentor to many dental instruments. He left West Point for health reasons, graduated in dental surgery in 1835, and practiced in Washington for 55 years.
John Lyle Harrington recalls his youth counting objects and steps on a farm leading to an engineering path. By twenty-two he entered university and today he is a renowned engineer who designed bridges valued at a hundred million dollars and led global projects, including in New Zealand, serving as ex-president of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. Wireless waves speed noted as circling the earth seven and a half times each second.
The accident prevention drive by Chesapeake and Potomac Telethon Company yields medals for employees in District of Columbia Maryland Virginia and West Virginia who have had no lost time accidents in five years. Recipients include H H Ford R M Kerns A A Linnenbrogger A A Lusby J M Newcomb J K Kerr H L Henneman H K Myers and others across multiple cities and states.
Dr Herbert E B Ives of Bell Telephone Laboratories in New York was awarded the John Scott Medal and a $1,000 premium by the city of Philadelphia for his role in transmitting pictures over telephone lines and advancing television. This marks the third time in two years a Bell Labs staffer has earned the honor. The fund was established in 1816 by John Scott to honor scientists who devise useful inventions for mankind.
Millinery styles are transmitted by AT&T telephoto service. A Paris hat arrives in New York and is photographed, then copied in Cleveland within minutes. Boston sketches of four styles follow from New York in seven minutes. Hats are purchased in New York, copied in Boston, and advertised before shipment arrives.
The Southern Railroad has placed in service this year telephone dispatch lines between Meridian Mississippi and New Orleans a distance of 202 miles. This gives the Southern telephone service over its entire line between New Orleans and Cincinnati and between New Orleans and Washington by way of Birmingham and Atlanta.
About 8.16 million copies of the winter New York City telephone directory were distributed. Subscriber reach includes 1.62 million for Manhattan and the Bronx and about 1.54 million for Brooklyn Queens and Richmond. The ManhattanBronx volume lists 628 thousand meetings and the BrooklynQueens volume 456 thousand.
The sturgeon lays about 7,000,000 eggs over its lifetime according to the report.
A sworn pledge states that all persons failing to comply with the law will be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction may be fined or imprisoned, with the speaker asserting orderly enforcement without fear or favor.
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