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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1925
Page
8
An investigator joins a Taos pueblo snake worship expedition to save himself after the sacred rattler is killed. Tense conflict unfolds as ethnologists and locals confront the charged scene, with a deadly turn and ethnic tensions shaping a southwestern tragedy.
Pete recalls a Taos scene where a white deerskin elder curses a rattlesnake, Baldwin film mishap leads to fever and panic, a snake scare, and Baldwin’s death from unknown causes after a rattlesnake bite myth. The tale blends campfire yarns with danger and superstition.
A Tatler anecdote relays Charles Brookfield recalling a bitter railway trip. A private omnibus arrived with foot warmers under seats, warming passengers by imagined devices. They later discover the warmth came from their own gun cases, a misread tale on imagination.
The passage argues that private men cannot abstain from public affairs without harming personal happiness or misery. It frames meddling in government as a duty and warns against tyrannical or servile ideas that private individuals should not concern themselves with state matters.
Washington released Near East Relief annual report showing 12,000 children placed in homes in 1924, total expenditures of 8.97 million with 298k year-end deficit, and a major malaria campaign in Greece. It highlights volunteer mobilization of 12,000 local members and 45,725 women’s organizations aiding a broad program across Armenia Turkey Syria Palestine Mesopotamia and Greece.
Do minican republic milk supply remains adequate for adults but modern production methods are lacking. Little butter is produced locally and demand is met by imports mainly from the United States and Denmark, with condensed and evaporated milks used for infant feeding.
A South note asserts wicked deeds cloud understanding and inner peace. The text warns that even beams of light used for enlightenment can scorch when used for evil, making a clear mind unattainable for those engaged in wrongdoing.
In December the ailing King Hal caused the English to adopt a silent Christmas with no bells carols or festivity. The people, by common consent, awaited his recovery and restrained merry making.
In Watertown a school class posed a test question asking what Mars is. A student answered that Mars is the scratches you get on the parlor furniture, a remark cited from the New York Sun.
A Pelican item notes a Scotchman who fired a pistol outside his home on Christmas Eve and then told the children that Santa Claus had died by his own action, prompting a case for the SPCC and an inquiry into his behavior.
This piece explains the belief that small gold earrings worn in the ear could cure sore or weak eyes. It links the practice to ancient ideas of senses as conduits of influence, noting Herodotus and crocodile cult symbolism and the role of the ear as a portal for curative power.
Savage Russian custom sees wild geese shed almost all wing feathers in summer leaving them helpless. Natives of northern Russia net thousands, burying them in swamp mud to rot. Later the birds are dug up and fed to half wild dogs and even eaten by locals.
The saying Fell s paved with good Intentions appears in Boswell's Life of Johnson ascribed to Johnson's era, but the proverb predates him. Centuries earlier it surfaces in German writings and in medieval French Italian and Portuguese literature, noted by Vathtinder Magazine.
In Shelburne county Nova Scotia a village reports three brothers who each took a number of years ago. Years pass, each wife dies, leaving the three brothers widowers with three children apiece, each family consisting of two girls and one boy.
A new cotton variety known as tan guis has emerged in Peru. It descends from a single perfect plant found in an infected field, and seed from it produced other true to type plants. The crop yields about 800 pounds per acre.
It would take nearly 35 years for an airplane traveling at two miles a minute to reach Mars. A wireless signal could travel to Mars and back in less than seven minutes, far faster than travel by air to far celestial targets.
The Palaung child in Burma is taught to avoid passing under a ladder due to a superstition that the spirit or influence of the person who ascended the ladder may descend on anyone underneath.
The sale covers land once owned by Clyde C Thompson and Erma L Thompson and later by Harry M Hubbard and Martha Hubbard and Dalton Hubbard. It includes an eight room house barn corn house outbuildings and mostly cultivated fields with some timber. Located within one mile of Bethlehem near the railroad station school church and state road. Payment terms require one third cash day of sale one third in one year and balance in two years or all cash. Auctioneer John Irwin and assignee Oscar Clark handle title and purchaser loans may be available through Oscar Clark.
Notice by the subscriber in Caroline County that administration on the estate of William F. Liden, late of Caroline County, deceased, has been granted by the Orphans Court. Claimants must present their claims with vouchers by December 21, 1926 or be excluded from the estate. Given June 2, 1926.
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