12 Jun 1920
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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1920
Page
1
A local retailer announces a twenty percent reduction on silk goods as part of a sale. The notice emphasizes savings for customers and invites shoppers to visit the shop to view the discounted silk selection.
The article explains a savings concept where if you lose your health and become totally disabled, you can no longer work, but the bank would pay you $100.00 in ready money on the first day of every month for life. The piece contrasts two options for guaranteed monthly income.
Dolly Copley and Jim Reardon clash over a line from a theater play. Four months apart deepen their rift until a shoe mishap at a repair shop culminates in Dolly delivering the shoes and reconciliation.
The New York Evening Sun recalls the yearly Byron tribute in London at Hamilton Gardens Hyde Park. A yellow wreath marks the monument and obituaries note his death, with continuing annual payments from a female admirer. Byron died April 19 1824 in Greece at age thirty seven.
In the wedding cake tradition the ring signals the first wed among those present while the thimble foretells an old maid fate for the finder. A wish bone token grants a wish upon being drawn and the penny promises riches to its finder. The button signals bachelorhood for the plate it lands on.
New York University owns an original photograph of its first master with the gong and stick used to summon students. At the 1880 founding, classes met in the old building behind City Hall and the janitor rang the hour with a metal gong and stick to end lectures and move students to the next room.
In 1919 1920 era tale Jimmy Dale and Elsie Thompson marry after war and economic strain. A lunchroom waitress Mary Hogan saves every tip from a gruff rival and Jimmy to present a wedding gift of $35 to the couple plus a note blessing. Her small act mirrors love and common decency in postwar life.
Methods from Popular Mechanics describe removing marble grease spots. Fresh stains respond to cloth with pulverized China clay, then soap and water. Old stains need distilled water, French plaster, and chlorine bleach on a white cloth, or soaking small marble pieces in refined benzine. An alternate method uses fuller's earth with soap ment, ammonia and water, applied and pressed with a hot smoothing tool, renewing as it dries and repeating if needed.
A London Tit-Bits quip recalls Jather’s absent mindedness. He stays up hour after hour trying to recall a task, finally realizing he simply wanted to go to bed early. The joke hinges on the comic twist of a trivial end goal.
A World Outlook discussion questions Massachusetts identity noting 1910 census shows only 32 percent native born with native parents. It argues New England’s cradle status seems odd as heavy foreign birth and later waves of immigrants reshape the region.
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