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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1925
Page
6
Irvin S Cobb recounts a Chicago racetrack day when a decrepit car and four people entered on a four pass. A ticket taker forgot parking fees and charged one dollar for the car. The journalist quips that the car is the reader’s, reclaiming the charge.
Kentucky congressman John K. Hendrick, now deceased, defuses a judge’s patience test in a divorce petition reading. The young lawyer struggles with legal phrasing and the judge’s temper grows. Hendrick gently intercedes offering a witty counselsman remark that the lawyer cannot “put it” anywhere. Central Press Association.
A mountain husband bears new duties while his wife lies ill and grows fatigued by daily care. After ten days he collapses at a general store, lamenting that a four-bits bottle of bitters failed to help and that he sometimes wishes his wife would get well.
A so called financial expert promised prosperity through mailed lessons on speculation. He urged customers to contact him if investments failed. A Southwest subscriber, ruined by his grain market method, wrote for guidance. The reply by wire stated I am busted.
A charming Southern lady, famed as a modern Mrs. Malaprop, jokes about hiring a local clay modeler for a bust of her hand and quips during a trip in an airplane that she was glad to return to terra cotta. She laments golf confusion and the mystery of which end to hold a club.
A note handed to Damon Runyon in the Polo Grounds press stand asked him to identify which Coveleskie brother pitched for Detroit against the Yankees. Runyon replied on the note’s back, declaring this was the other Coveleskie.
Boosten Transcript notes a preference for constructive outcomes over denials. It emphasizes maintaining momentum, choosing proactive steps, and embracing optimistic language to advance goals. The passage suggests steady progress through practical, nonconfrontational approaches.
A new study reports a plant immunity technique targets pest pressure on English grown tobacco. Researchers note the approach shows promise against no insect pests and could reduce chemical use. Field trials continue this season with expectations of broader crop resilience.
The Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company will spend 61 850 000 to expand its telephone plant across the District of Columbia Maryland Virginia and West Virginia over the next five years. New buildings switchboards storage batteries testing equipment and central office apparatus are planned along with underground conduit cable extensions pole lines aerial cable and more telephones. The company added 10 611 telephones in the first four months of this year a 39 percent gain over 1924. In the district of Columbia Virginia Maryland and West Virginia gains totaled 4 665 2 683 2 342 and 1 031 respectively. A survey shows operation of 660 000 telephones by 1930, a gain of 160 000 stations in five years. Current total is 604 098, more than double a decade ago.
Ingenious electric driven machines in a Brooklyn manufactory produce paper cups and dishes. A disk of paper is pressed into a cup shape, sterilized, plaited for strength, sealed with hot paraffin, baked, and dried by a fan as the finished cups move along the line.
A Danish engineer proposes a machine driven apparatus to select workers for searching in factories producing precious items. The system uses a container of balls corresponding to workers. pressing a button releases a ball, lighting a white lamp for safe passage or a red lamp if the ball is conductive, indicating a worker to be searched.
A Youth's Companion contributor recalls a Wisconsin pastor famed for poor memory yet notable holiness. He often forgot his text and relied on his wife who would read it aloud. after hymn two he asks for the text and she admits she does not know either. He then begins preaching from the same forgotten text.
The article notes Chinese cuisine uses vegetables far more broadly than the United States. It highlights common items like potatoes, spinach, cabbage, radishes, and slke, plus less typical greens such as radish leaves, shepherds purses, bamboo sprouts, and various seaweeds as edible foods.
James Monroe consulted his cabinet on handling the diplomatic corps during the New Year greeting. It was decided that on January 3, 1818, the diplomatic corps would be received at 11:30, with the general public admitted from noon to 3 PM, establishing a fixed schedule.
The article explains real mahogany as a tropical tree grown mainly in Central American nations like Honduras and Guatemala. Much of it is floated down rivers on rafts to the sea during the rainy season, then cut and squared for use.
Andrew F Currier M D argues that most crying stems from pain or inherited temperament and that mothers should exercise patience, love, and restraint. He advises identifying removable causes, distinguishing pain from willful crying, and, if needed, mild discipline to teach the baby to submit to the parents’ guidance.
A curious episode in James Whitcomb Riley's life records an inner impulse to compose the poem Bereaved about a child’s death. Days later a letter from Bill Nye revealed the same child's passing, linking the urge to write with a real tragedy.
List of republics with presidential term lengths and re election rules: Argentina six years. Austria four. Bolivia four with no re election. Brazil four not eligible. Chile four not eligible. China five with possible re election. Colombia four not eligible. Costa Rica four. Ecuador four. Finland six. France seven. Germany seven. Latvia three with six consecutive years limit. Liberia four.
The al borak is portrayed as a swift magical creature guiding Mohammed on a nocturnal journey from Mecca to Jerusalem and to the seventh heaven with eyes like stars and a body jeweled. It has eagle wings, a human face, and horse cheeks, and is said to be among the few animals allowed in heaven.
In the reign of Edward II between 1807 and 1827 dandies wore extremely long pointed shoes. The toes were so elongated that wearers had to lift and fasten them to the knees with ribbons or chains.
Vigorous attempts by the colonial ministry to encourage emigration to the colonies continue. Despite appeals and vivid depictions of life abroad, few French citizens abandon their homeland. The attachment to one’s roots remains strong as peasants keep farm or village ties for generations. In Jeannet Burgundy, records show the Snaeffer family farming there since 1672.
A Swedish ski tradition spans at least fourteen centuries with roots in prehistoric practice. Professor Otto von Friesen cites runic evidence from a Boeksta runestone and medieval writers describing swift forest gliding, noting Vikings used skis widely and the deity UH valued winter sport and speed for communication and warfare.
The article traces the title Dauphin as heir to the French crown under Valois and Bourbon rule. It notes Humbert II’s 1849 bequest to Philip of Valois with the condition that the king’s eldest son be titled dauphin, mentions early and last holders, and explains the origin of the surname from Guy VIII and the emblem dolphin. It also defines the wife as the dauphine.
A silverware salesman notes a rich buyer, calling her new-rich by remarks about her selection of the most expensive sugar tongs and a dozen pieces. She explains she rarely hosts big parties, insisting a dozen will suffice, prompting a blush and quick misunderstanding.
In South America famed copper mines rise high in the Andes with one of the world’s richest operations 1,000 feet deep yet 14,000 feet above sea level. From Lima travelers cross a rail pass above 15,800 feet to reach the site as miners ascend upward toward mineral veins within the mountain.
A fragment quotes Willing to Didier Wiggins discussing daily letters to a lonely girl named Helen. Wiggins notes the letters mean much to her, though she offered to sell them to him for 50 dollars each.
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