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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Jul 21, 1894
Page
1
An expanding business moves into the Lennegan-Bates corner soon joining Oehm's Acme Hall, claiming to become the largest house south of New York and twice the size of any in Baltimore. Operations continue with lower prices amid the renovations.
An ad lists deep discounts on suits and hats, with boys department bargains and furnishing deals. The page also presents a long humorous verse about Jack’s travels from Vermont to Kansas, California, Australia, and London, concluding the best path is to stay where you are.
A bachelor of arts narrator clashes with his mother over marriage. He pursues Rose Desjardins, a graceful but educated young woman, only to learn she is also a baccalaureate. After a tense confession and a dramatic concert at Mme. Desjardins, Rose reveals the truth and agrees to marry him, uniting intellect and home life.
An elderly Mexican man recalls a time when stamped soapcakes circulated as small-denomination money in interior cities. These soap pieces had intrinsic value and could be used as currency even when mint marks were erased, yet today soap remains expensive in Mexico with a bar costing the wages of a skilled carpenter.
A note in Electrical Review recalls a crow nest of iron wire at the Coastpore ordnance factory Calcutta and an Indian crow dropping a long wire piece. The piece weighed about 861 grains and used No 11 Birmingham wire gauge. The report notes crows pilfer telegraph wire for nests.
Long discussion on the origins of incense in religious rites from ancient times. It notes how odor and smoke served as offerings to gods, citing Iliad imagery of burning ox thighs and fat, and mentions Egyptian mummies and the Punt trade as drivers of aromatics in antiquity.
The piece notes horn like excrescences on human heads reported by English and continental surgeons. It cites the Vienna British and Vatican collections, a Che shire history woman with an 82 year head tumor growing horns after age seven, and Pietro le Diblo the Devil with three horns including a 9 inch forehead horn, from the St Louis Republic.
The piece notes Wood's Hole on the Massachusetts coast was renamed Wood's Holl to sound genteel, a change the government later reversed. It contrasts this with resistance to altering New York's Hell Gate, labeling it a simplistically refined Hurl Gate, as discussed by the Boston Pilot in a satire on manners and language.
A Chicago Tribune excerpt describes an Indian rainmaker with a rocket device holding ether that rises to a mile, descends by parachute, and sprays ether to condense vapor and create a limited shower. It notes the heat absorption and cooling effect claimed in the process.
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