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Newspaper

Denton Journal

Location

Denton, Maryland, United States of America

Date

Jun 04, 1921

Page

2

Salvation Army Maternity Hospitals Aid Desperate Women

The Salvation Army runs maternity hospitals aiding betrayed and destitute women by providing refuge, care, and future baby support. Of 7103 admitted last year, 6408 returned to self supporting lives. They offer low cost confinement rooms and an Out of Love Circle connects past residents across 23 cities. Over 85 percent of graduates now support themselves and their children. Nearby Hot Springs Nev offers natural fireless cookers using boiling water from a hot spring into cooking holes for visitors.

Salvation Army Nev

Dream interpretations from the Chicago American

A haunted dream lexicon links murder to inheritance and illness to kin, predicting outcomes from killing friends to domestic happiness. It cautions that killing wild beasts signals happiness while harming tame animals foretells family troubles. It also links lost buttons to misfortune and long life to possession of buttons.

Chicago American

Impossible Inventor's Wheelchair Dream Comes True

In Cloverdale Rhoderic Smith unveils an electric invalid chair inspired by Clifford Childs, his frail brother in law. The device runs eight miles an hour, can be kept in the parlor, and marks a step toward a new company making practical mobility aid. Clifford tests the chair as Hilda and Ruth watch with mixed pride and hope. Howard, the ambitious town landlord, previously scoffed at Rhoderic, hinting at rivalry as the invention nears production.

Childs Ruth Rhoderic Hilda Rhoderick Smith Ithoderic Hin Romanta Bayton Edison Clifford Cloverdale Cerk Mr. Howard Bis Gut Rhoderic Smith

Where the Women Triumph in Nursing Duty

Alfred Edge argues in favor of nursing as essential female work and a powerful force in patient care. He praises trained nurses for their cheerful effect on the sick, noting their authority and resolve in medical settings. The piece frames nursing as vital, capable, and undermining male dominance in caregiving.

Tle Alfred Edge London Mall

Artificial Abrasives Carborundum and Corundum

The text notes that humans can rival nature in abrasives by artificial means. It explains the creation of corundum and a distinct abrasive, carborundum, both produced in electric furnaces, highlighting their superior and unique properties compared to natural forms.

Ptarmigan Stands Alone on Highest Hills in Winter

Among European birds the ptarmigan is unique as the only species to stay at its high hill haunts through winter and summer. In Britain its nesting ground on Scottish roofs is shared with dotterel, golden eagle, peregrine falcon, and snow bunting. The dotterel only summers, eagle and peregrine nest on lower elevations, while the snow bunting moves to glens and sheltered corries in winter.

British Islands Scotland

Helbrau and the Fourth Dimension Debate

A professor named Helbrau spends extensive time arguing about the fourth dimension. He resists opposition, confidently stating his views with little challenge from others.

Prof. Helbrau

Absentminded Eph Davis Loses Bonds Then Finds Them

Old Ephraim Davis, famed for absentmindedness in Chenango County, buys a new suit and bonds at a tailor and bank. He hides bonds in his new suit, later searches his old suit, panics, then returns with the new suit and discovers the bonds in his pocket at the bank, prompting amused laughter from bank staff.

Ephraim Davis Chenango County National Bank

Prehistoric Giant Unearthed in Baluchistan

The remains described as the largest mysterious land animal ever found in Baluchistan suggest a creature akin to a rhinoceros with a giraffe like neck. Two neck bones appear large, with teeth unlikely to be moved by simple force, hinting at extraordinary size and strength.

Baluchistan

Blue Sundae Recipe Sparks Punny Exchange

A soda clerk pitches a violet ice cream with crushed blueberries and dubs it a blue sundae. The boss agrees the idea sounds good and asks the name, prompting the playful exchange quoted by a judge.

Tye

Savings account offers 4 percent interest quarterly

The notice promotes opening a savings account that pays 4 percent interest compounded quarterly. It emphasizes readiness to seize opportunities and the option to withdraw anytime while interest accumulates if unused.

Sale of John Dyer estate in Caroline County suit

Orphans' Court of Caroline County orders publication of notice in local newspaper for non-resident heirs and all heirs-at-law of John Dyer deceased to appear by July 18 to answer a bill seeking sale of real estate to pay debts. The land involved is a one-half undivided interest in a lot described in a 1907 deed, with value under 2500 dollars. The case names J Virgil Moore NS Lizzie Moore et al as plaintiffs.

John Dyer Caroline County Nathaniel Tilghman Alexander Mason J. Virgil Moore Harriett Dyer Levi H. Tilghman Florida Stephen Dyer Maryland Lizzie Moore Walter Moore Leona Stanford Addison Stanford Philip Dyer George F. Dyer Ida Dyer John A. Dyer Yancy Dyer Mary Dyer Philadelphia Pennsylvania Orphans’ Court Richard T. West Alisha H. Harper William J. Shawn J. Howard Pastorfield Register of Wills

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