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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Jul 20, 1918
Page
3
Nell Bradley hatches marriage plan with Marcus Barnes the commonplace bank clerk. A playful courtship turns practical as he proves steady and surprising, leading to a hasty engagement and a shared dream of a simple wedding.
Remnants of a quartet with a grim history link the Grand Duchess later renamed the Carolina to a sinking by a German U-boat. The vessel carried troops to Porto Rico during the Spanish American War and vanished after wartime service, joining the Yale Cherokee Obdam and the Grand Duchess in a string of misfortune during naval operations.
A warehouse employee descends from the third floor when a shoe lace unties. He steps on the lace five steps from the landing, falls hard onto the bottom step, and dies the next morning. The incident underscores that small details can have fatal consequences.
In Bermuda potatoes, second only to onions as a staple, are restricted by martial law to aid the Allied cause. The proclamation bans export of potatoes to safeguard the island’s food supply during wartime.
On a hot prairie Santa Fe ride, Louise Mackay rebuffs Rob Murray's romance after Thad's warning. A funnel cloud closes in, trapping passengers as Murray gathers courage and asks Louise to be honest about their future before the storm seals their fate.
On a rattling train toward Honey Creek, Murray and Miss Maekis confront pride and love as danger looms. A dramatic chase ends with a cyclone swerving away, the couple embracing amid danger, and a vow that their affair was real not a sham.
A young man and his wife appeared before Local Board No. 7 at Central Armory in Cleveland. When asked about buying a wedding ring on installments, the man admitted he kept the ring for years until the occasion of marriage. He affirmed they had just married and were engaged in a candid exchange with Frank M. Kenney, chief clerk.
A Parisian journal hails Salvator Schiff as a prodigy a boy living with a picture dealer who writes better than many established writers. His employer discovers his talent when Schiff pens a playful piece, then sends the manuscript to a famed editor as Mercure de France plans to publish his first work alongside others.
Marthe Springer, twenty six months old from Mountain View Colorado, is described as the world’s youngest mental prodigy. At a college gathering she read, counted, told time, and spoke with observers for forty minutes, using a vocabulary near two thousand words.
A new emulsor, now widely introduced, uses centrifugal force to create pasteurized milk or cream from its components. Shown in Popular Mechanics, the device resembles a cream separator, combining milk powder and butter with water heated in a steam jacketed vat, feeding at pasteurizing temperature into a revolving chamber to form a pure emulsion and remove impurities.
A fragment from Outlook quotes a playful glossary of pronouns used by the army. It maps I the rookie You the sergeant The colonel We the gang They the Thuns It the war THs what the kaiser will pet Theirs what the Huns will get.
Two men sit at a saloon table where one annoys others with a grim singing attempt. The proprietor orders the man to stop, threatening removal. The other patron urges the singer on, seeking confrontation rather than quiet. The boss demands quiet again, while the second man insists on expulsion.
A New York World review notes Rockefeller Institute research boosts infantile paralysis defense. It cites two bodily defenses nose and throat secretions and protective membranes around the brain and spinal cord, with low paralysis rates last summer and advances in serum and administration methods that reduce panic.
The Josephine club plans courses in self control first aid to the injured literature and gymnastic work to fit unmarried women for marriage. Founder Mrs. Josephine Cohn presides. since five years no member has married, and members join to become acceptable to a husband before courting.
Historical remarks recount how Michelangelo, Dante, Petrarch, Galileo, and others memorized vast literary canons. Justus Lipsius and Locke note repeated passages from Tacitus and the Bible. Leibniz and Samierson boast near total recall of Virgil Horace Cicero and Juvenal. Porson claimed he could recite Roderick Random from start to finish.
Walter Kellogg Towers recalls ancient stentorophonic tubes described as gigantic speaking trumpets. Reportedly capable of carrying voice for about twelve miles, with a drawing preserved in the Vatican cited from the New York Telegram.
The term Albino originated from Portuguese usage for dark skinned people with white patches and now refers to those born with red eyes and white hair. The name Albion for England derives from the same root, linked to Caesar’s reference to the white cliffs along the southeast coast during his first invasion in 55 BC.
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