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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Jul 25, 1925
Page
7
The urged nationwide shift demands drastic economy in national wealth use and personal spending. Educators must teach personal economics to ensure every citizen gains a livable standard and old age security. Emphasizing saving, prudent investment, and employer plans, the piece warns that neglect leads to pauperism as a social crime.
In a conversational piece Aunt Emmy explains to Jane why having cash in the bank is beneficial. The dialogue references Mr Wilkins telling Jane’s father that people should keep a certain amount of cash accessible for use at any time, highlighting prudent money habits.
Aunt Emmy counsels immediate cash readiness to seize profit opportunities in deals. She cites Brown brothers inheritance dispute and Peter Haskins buying Center Street house for 3000 and selling for 4200. She also notes cash discounts, urging keeping some money liquid to act fast.
Bankers in Mason County Michigan back a move to replace scrub stock with purebred cattle. County agent outlines buying young purebred sires and placing them with willing farmers. Bankers will advance the purchase price and take a note for one year without interest to simplify obtaining thoroughbreds.
A short homily urges calm under pressure. It compares a drowning swimmer saving a partner to handling life’s dangers by keeping one’s head. The Arkansas Tom Cat notes that success comes from self control, not impulse, and that coolness can aid impulsive or nervous people in difficult moments.
An old man leads two calves from pasture and ties them to his boots. They bolt, dragging him along. He returns home bruised, and his wife asks about the foolery. He replies that he only saw his error after being dragged four rods.
The New York World notes that eyes closed and walking toward a distant object reveals veering to one side. Right-handed people tend to veer right, left-handed to the left, due to small stride irregularities. A blind man can walk straight by heightened sense of direction.
A reflective remark on poverty frames the speaker's view that hardship is a constant burden while wealth appears effortless, inviting readers to consider social and economic disparities and the personal impact of inequality.
An old camp food guidance piece warns against illness from spoiled foods in camps and promotes evaporated milk as a safe, sterile substitute. It outlines simple recipes like tomato soup and stirred eggs using evaporated milk, water, and basic seasonings.
A crow, nearly waterless, in a pitcher too deep to reach water, drops pebbles one by one. The rising water allows him to drink and live. Aesop's fable teaches that small, steady effort yields results.
Motorcars equipped to send and receive radio messages have proven of great aid to London police in the pursuit and capture of automobile bandits. The system enhances rapid communication during high speed chases and improves coordination among patrols across districts.
A Weymouth wedding featured a notably short groom of three feet ten inches and a bride two inches shorter, producing a remarkable union celebrated by relatives and guests.
A Jersey City Journal blurb notes that entering society requires time to know people well enough to gossip intelligently, reflecting social etiquette and local commentary.
Safety methods for protecting sight have reduced eye accidents by about 90 percent in some industries nationwide. The program emphasizes shields, eye protection, and training to prevent injuries.
A Quixotic reflection of outdoor reverence by E. H. Ross in Outdoor America. The author laments modern noise and extols nature, hunting thrills, rivers, and ancient trees as sacred, vowing to raise his son with sportsmanship and a respect for wild places. He longs to be remembered as a sportsman who lived true to nature.
A wartime contractor Elbert Anderson provided army supplies and inspector Samuel Wilson, known as Uncle Sam, marked boxes B. A-U. 8. When asked the letters stood for Elbert Anderson and Uncle Sam, a print story spread nationwide by war’s end.
During Charles I’s contest with parliament it was fashionable for church families to name children with scripture phrases. One child bore a long name that read Who Comfortedh Us in All Our Tribulation That We May Be Able to Comfort Them Which Are Any Trouble With the Comfort Wherewith We Ourselves Are Comforted Tichbourne. When he began school he was nicknamed Trib by peers.
Government hired storytellers spread warnings in Shanghai to stop jay-walking. One tale likens traffic to a tiger and urges pedestrians to heed signals from policemen at street corners to protect ancestral tab lets and safety.
Sir Arthur Keith, Britain's leading physical anthropologist, says the Piltdown skull is most assuredly human in his latest revision of The Antiquity of Man. He calculates a brain capacity around 1,800 cubic centimeters, with 1,000 c.c. marking the lower human level.
Mrs Boffe read the evening paper and exclaimed that a woman looking after another to see what she had on fell from a window. Her husband retorted that women in chasing fashions can go too far.
Samuel Slater, born in Holly House Farm Derbyshire England, was the fifth son of William and Elizabeth Slater. Apprenticed to Jedediah Strutt at fourteen, he became a master spinner and later sailed to America to apply his cotton machinery knowledge. He became a leading cotton manufacturer in Pennsylvania, with Slater meaning a man engaged in slating.
A humorous letter to a South African mission head misreads English usage. The writer cites an aperture date of February 13 and explains arriving home to learn his brother had fallen asleep. The note claims the accident involved a lion, reflecting comic miscommunication.
Experts from the Department of the Interior locate dinosaur foot prints in rock on the Navajo Indian reservation in Arizona. The tracks are about 10,000,000 years old and measure 18 inches in length.
A syndicated remark by McClure Newspaper Syndicate quotes a young woman asserting lynching cannot be erased until mobs face strict law enforcement.
The piece recounts Paul Armstrong’s two favorite tales, including a parlor story of a down and outer working as a sandwich man. He finds a twenty dollar gold piece, spends it on whisky, loses it, and is knocked tricked by the barkeeper. A Bowery mission worker is kicked by the ex-sandwich man who complains the clergyman tied shoestrings.
A Texas attorney who was deaf argued with a younger judge. The judge ordered him to sit, fined him ten dollars for contempt, and the lawyer, asking what he owed, pressed the clerk. He declared it a just debt and offered payment.
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