14 Jun 1879
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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1879
Page
1
The verses urge taking one step at a time to finish a daunting task. It extols daily effort, building progress brick by brick, and steady persistence. It cites ancient proverbs and nature’s lessons to encourage starting and continuing work despite fear or distance.
A storm sweeps the coast as Captain Wooley orders a rough night muster. Stephen, a fifteen-year-old keeper’s ward, tends to a wrecked man, saves a life, and discovers a money belt with a thousand-dollar bank note, prompting thoughts of rightful ownership.
Stephen Hendrickson faces temptation over a belt with a thousand dollar bill. He repents after praying and returns the belt to Captain Wooley, whose life saving crew seals the boy’s integrity with a legal safeguard and mortgage relief follows.
A muscular man in a Detroit photography studio feigns a scarred face to win his former Allegan county fiancés heart. He sends a gruesome shot with a boastful letter claiming injury by an explosion. The plan aims to trigger her jealousy and hasten an unwanted marriage, as the suitor reveals he owns eleven steers and other assets.
A Chicago exchange notes that two years ago the Socialist group had barely twenty arms stands and could not muster a corporal’s guard on drill days. West-side Turner drills implied entry required a red membership card, reflecting tight secrecy shaping their activities.
A dated piece contrasts roles of old maids and old bachelors. It lauds maids as useful, amiable helpers who cook sew and care for children and the sick. It portrays bachelors as useless and ill natured, unable to perform practical tasks.
A physician promotes boiled celery as a universal cure for rheumatism and argues raw celery preserves its powers. The remedy involves celery boiled in water, drunk as a soup, with milk flour and nutmeg, served warm with toast. He links rheumatism to alkaline blood and cites English mortality 1896 to support prevention by diet.
The piece argues that love is life and that loving God with all heart soul and mind is foundational to morality. It contends denying God's conscious personality destroys the deepest human sentiments fueling morality and that a loving God is essential to love in return. Personality in God is tied to morality in man, a God who cannot love cannot be truly loved.
An old fisherman told Eve reporter that a sturgeon would live after all its fins and entrails were removed. The fish convulsed, flapped its tail, then died. Fishermen note a sturgeon is not deemed dead until its head is shooped. The entrails were placed in a keg and set for eels, then the body was sent to Philadelphia as a gift.
An English journal praises American achievement, listing fifteen inventions now widely adopted worldwide. It notes items from the cotton gin to the composing machine and ends with a fable about fair division at a tavern, illustrating shared but unevenly distributed benefits.
A boy writes on toads describing them as dignified frogs with warts and a long tongue, while a Boston sewing exhibition shows hundreds of girls making garments and years of sewing classes. A church elder laments neglect of sick members, and bits warn against kissing babies. A child humorously recalls a church pew as a shelf.
A young woman asks how far around the world is. Her lover Charley cheekily answers about twenty four inches as his arm encircles her waist, offering a playful metaphor in the exchange.
A Chattanooga juror explains to brothers that the culprit was freed amid tainted evidence. The piece mocks gender roles and moral judgments, noting women’s supposed limits and wax doll symbolism, and ends with reflective maxims on virtue and jealousy.
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