18 Jul 1925
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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Jul 18, 1925
Page
1
Our Annual July Clearance Sale offers worthwhile savings in every department. Remarkably low prices on men and women’s clothing and shoes, dry goods, silks, hosiery, and shirts. Save 25c to 50c on each dollar and spend it on your vacation. If you plan to buy wearing apparel this summer, this is the chance to buy cheaply. Big stock and splendid selections with standard quality not sale goods.
Women fashion new frocks from popular cloths with beautiful colors and designs, reflecting current style trends.
At a lakeside cottage party a young man Bancroft finds Miss Pennington's enamelled watch hidden near a tree after she begs her brother to search. He pockets the watch, discovers a Kodak portrait inside, and conceals it to learn its meaning, while rivals flirt and scheme nearby.
A Rome prison tour reveals Mamertine’s damp dungeons where Christians faced punishment via a manhole grave. Jugurtha died there after starvation in a ten by seven foot cell. Volcanic walls, darkness, and narrow rock passages linked to the Tiber aided secret body removal.
German scientists Drs. Baunacher and Hengch at Halle develop a secret chemical lure that destroys the nematodes, the major pests of sugar beets. The eggs, resistant to sprays, hatch under harvest timing, but the baited soil traps lure larvae and the population perishes with winter.
On February 18, a Paris city hall ceremony halted when Jacques Binet cried no to tying the knot, after seeing a wall calendar marked Friday the 18th. Relatives looked on as the magistrate paused the ritual before resuming.
Two young lawyers argued lengthily in court with one noting they were raised and educated together and born on the same day. When the judge confirmed the birth date, the other quipped that it must have been a windy day.
A Youth's Companion note warns that too much light tires the eyes as surely as too little. It urges balanced illumination for reading, cautioning against glare from direct sunlight and urging moderation in use of modern bright lamps.
A Kansas City Star note recounts the medieval tale of Roger Bacon who supposedly built a seven year brazen head to reveal how to surround Britain with brass. The head spoke of time and then shattered, and Bacon’s servant failed to alert him. The legend spread widely in the Middle Ages with other claimed brass creations.
Professor Davidson argues the child mind nearly defies comprehension yet holds the key to psychology as children mirror human nature. He cites examples of siblings and gifts showing how desire, value, and perception differ, revealing early patterns in behavior and emotion.
A small man White offended six foot Brown, who vowed to thrash him. They meet and Brown delivers a heavy blow. White asks if it was in earnest and agrees to fight only if it is serious, then walks away in a quiet, defiant mood.
A pathologist notes anger increases blood sugar by 10 to 80 percent within minutes. The rise is linked to a tiny pineal‑like gland causing hot temper and aggression when excess essence is produced. Normal function keeps calm and even tempered.
A farmer returns from the county fair to find his wife has kept the farm in order. He checks the cows, horses, fowl, and wood, asks if the ducks are plucked, and if the wagon wheel is mended. He sighs and asks for supper, noting farming is beginning to tell on him.
Description of placer mining and the cradle used to separate gold dust from pay dirt. A rocking box on rockers with a perforated bottom allows water wash to pass fine particles onto a canvas screen, with gold collecting on riffles.
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