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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Jun 09, 1923
Page
7
The Denton Journal issue date Saturday morning June 9 1923 highlights Melvin and Johnson as publishers. The page notes the family run newspaper and its local reporting focus in Denton.
A historical review links the French Revolution to the Reveillon wallpaper works where labor unrest sparked the 1789 riot. It notes early American wallpaper makers like Joseph Burstead of Boston, his France trip in 1824 and 1834, and Zuber in Alsace introducing continuous roll paper in 1829. Revelion fled to London after the upheaval.
Dr. James Walsh of Fordham University highlights Ptah Hotep, vizier to Itosa, whose 5300 year old letters to his son offer timeless guidance. Advice urges avoiding quarrels, making plain statements, and letting inferiors speak to reveal folly.
The term guerrilla denotes irregular armed bands that fight on their own during invasions or civil wars. In Spain from 1808 to 1814 they harassed French forces, with some bands like Mina's later joining Wellington and serving as regular troops. After conflicts ended many became robber bands, and guerrilla activity persisted in Spain's Basque provinces and in the US Civil War on both sides.
A forestry official notes an isolated Burr Oak grove near Champalegn Inl that spans about three miles by one mile. Surrounded by open prairie far from streams, the stand sits on a glacial moraine once covered by similar trees and protected from fires by damp low grounds.
Skunk cabbage with its foul scent is a true flower and helps bees as winter ends. As spring warmth arrives, bees emerge from hibernation and rely on swamp plants for nourishment to avoid starvation before other blossoms appear.
The narrative credits Thjjelvar as the first settler on Gottland Island also called the Pearl of the Battle. It describes the island as unstable, surfacing at night and submerging by day, and says Thjelvar defeated trolls and evil spirits with fire. Gottlahd later grew into a regional power of the early Middle Ages attracting explorers.
The New York Times reports Professor Giuseppe Renato’s study on tails. It outlines dogs using tail movement as a psychological index and possible caudal language, and notes cattle and beasts of burden employ tails as defense against insects and as a factor in survival during evolution.
Hans Coudenhove notes in the Atlantic Monthly that wild creatures show remarkable interest in humans and seek friendship when not rebuked. He compares birds across regions from Monte Alverna to Falklands and Galapagos, highlighting curiosity despite risks, and cites historical figures like St. Francis and Darwin to illustrate evolving familiarity.
W W Greg contrasts pastoral literature with depictions of humble life, stressing pastoral as a distinct literary category. He argues true pastoral centers on shepherds, not rustic labor, and notes the literary potential arises when shepherd life gains an artistic setting beyond mere agrarian tasks.
A man plans a wedding cake and asks for a cake that matches his profession. The shopgirl explains wedding cake choices tied to jobs, suggesting an athlete cup cake and a doctor a angel cake. The exchange ends with the groom saying he is a doctor and the girl proposing an angel cake.
A countryman supervising five hares on a rail journey left the basket outside a station. One hare escaped, then another. He chased the first, but both escaped while he claimed, with a shrug, that he held the tickets and let passengers go where they liked.
A fragmentary historical sketch explains how one shepherd led others to care for flocks, forming scattered huts or caves, and how villages grew at pasture edges. Sheep enabled sharing wool and meat, spurring inns and customs for small communities and later the birth of spinning, weaving, and trade.
A Boston Transcript quip contrasts a clever woman who sees the point of a joke with one who can laugh without understanding it. The remark underscores social humor about wit and perception in relationships.
A find described as a throwing stick from prehistoric American cultures in the Ozark caves of Missouri and Arkansas may link western hemisphere civilizations. The device, a short notched stick with holes for fingers, hurled a dart and resembles similar weapons across North and South America, possibly connecting Arctic Eskimos to Mexican Tarascan regions.
Robert Louis Stevenson, famed Scottish writer, trained as a lawyer but never practiced. Lord Shaw of Dunfermline recalls Stevenson at the Edinburgh bar, unable to utter the three words Initation and service, and seeking help to file the title motion. He never earned another guinea as an advocate.
A mirage is an optical illusion where distant objects appear inverted or raised, common on the western plains of Canada and the United States. It resembles water and has been observed since ancient times, with biblical mentions and many regional names for the illusion.
In a Richmond Times Dispatch report, a smaller man confronts a bigger bully, calling him a coward and demanding apology. He vows to continue challenging the bully until equality is reached, and the Big Man ultimately apologizes.
A Chicago Dairy Journal line recounts how after Prohibition began a southern small black church faced saccharine wine shortages. Sisters attempt to improvise and ferment persimmon wine, delivering services where all partake but the doxology ends with everyone whistling.
Heffy, a long trusted editor, urged proper credit for clipped articles. Morning joy rose when a new exchange man reprinted a sonnet with a credit line reading William Shakespeare in the Plunkeville Gazette.
A humorous piece describes collars worn by men and mules, detailing varying forms from upright to grand to instruments. It lampoons the social idea of white collar work, notes the choking device’s reach, and jokes about its effects on jaw, windpipe, and appetite.
The Cleveland Plain Dealer notes old beliefs in venomous snake brews and theriue as universal cures. It cites New England cob web pills for ague and a pig’s knuckle bone for rheumatism carried on the person. The spider web remedy hails from China, reflecting widespread superstitions about insects and medicines.
A compact note on Nara Park Japan describing a sacred white horse with one blue eye and one pink eye kept in a small stable, the park's third largest bell, 1250 acres of grounds with over 8000 lanterns, 600 tame deer, one of three giant Buddhas, and Kasuga no Miya shrine visited by pilgrims for 1210 years.
An English sailor returns from a long voyage and visits a Hull bank. He greets the clerk, who says business is not brisk but may improve. The sailor, agreeing, hands over a £100 check and whispers that he wants ten pounds now and the rest in a week, to avoid being hard on them.
An absent-minded man returns home drenched after a heavy rainstorm. His wife wonders how he forgot something, and he replies with a smile that he remembered only when the rain stopped and he went to shut the door.
A terse exchange notes a young man seeking one word of advice on securing a loan. Mr. Wader grimly suggests writing for the loan and tearing up the reply without reading it, reflecting a cynic tone from London Answers.
The four main castes are Brahmans Kshatriyas Valsyas and Sudras. Caste once tied to class, but today a caste may include all occupations except priestly Brahmans. A rajah may be a Sudra and his cook a Brahman. Brahman may not dine with or allow his daughter to marry the rajah. Legal marriages can occur between contiguous castes, but children belong to the lower caste.
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