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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Jul 21, 1906
Page
4
A dentist notes women endure tooth pulling with less visible distress than men. Historical experiments in New York tested taste smell hearing sight and touch showing men superior in acuity and pain response in taste smell hearing and vision. The piece cites women’s steadiness as explainable by lower sensory acuity.
Eleanor Franklin notes in Lesile's Weekly that in smaller European hotels women greet guests at the desk and often push for extra charges beyond the quoted rate. She warns that advertised everything included may not cover tea, coffee, rolls, or in room service, and hints at the polite, persistent tactics of hotel staff to secure additional payments.
The article explains how India hosts Coccus lacca, the shellac producers. Females puncture twigs of trees such as bo, bihar, and buten, forming incrusted resin that protects eggs and feeds young. Dried twigs yield guck-lac from which shellac and cochineal dyes are made. seed-lac is the resinous matter refined to remove pigment. Shellac is produced by heating, filtering, and pressing rosin into thin plates, resulting in a hard, alcohol-soluble product valued for its purity.
In Siam fighting fish, a unique local spectacle, two fish in a bowl fight to the death. Crowds wager like on horses as bloodied fighters lash with sharp fins. The creatures resemble pike without gills and are eaten by some, though the gamesome rule draws daily amusement.
London Graphic recounts the end of public executions in England noting the last public hanging occurred in May 1868 at Newgate Prison when Michael Barrett exploded gunpowder to free Fenian prisoners Burke and Casey. The piece describes the era’s open crowds and the historic shift away from such spectacles.
An aging lawyer recounts a Western town tragedy where a judge, respected yet worn, presided over a capital case. The condemned man pled for mercy, claiming his innocence as he spoke of his son. The judge collapsed and died at his desk, a gunshot ended the pursuer’s life, and the mother never learned the truth.
A passenger recalled an elderly woman’s encounter with a peremptory car conductor. She replied in old fashioned terms asserting her age and name, prompting the conductor to apologize and assist her down from the car with knightly courtesy.
Charles Bigot notes Jules Lemaitre at about thirty five appearing older with bent posture and gray hair yet retaining a scholar's poise. His slightly awkward dress and cautious speech fade when he speaks, as his soft voice projects clearly to a large theater, transforming hesitation into authority.
An advertisement extols Golden Medical Discovery by Dr. R V Pierce as a natural tonic from forest roots to purify blood and improve digestion, addressing indigestion biliousness torpid liver and related symptoms. It claims no alcohol or habit forming drugs and warns against substitutes while promoting Dr Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets for constipation.
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