15 Jun 1907
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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1907
Page
1
Meyer and Thalheimer announce the May 16 release of Tales of Old Maryland a dainty cloth bound volume with fine half tone engravings. It borrows from Baltimore Sunday Sun sketches under The Romance of the Eastern Shore with vivid colonial era life and relics including a notable Patty Cannon sketch. The book is not a history but a collection of entertaining sketches.
Camp grounds announce the letting of privileges on June 15 1907 at 2 p.m. Sealed bids are invited for Bread Tent Horse Pound Barber Shop Boarding Tent Photography with bidders taking notes and security. Feeding price set at 24 cents per meal for preacher horses. Pepetual tent site holds require notice to Wi Johnson Hobbs. Committee decisions include possible fencing.
Dr Graylie scales trust with Kachecha a native guide who shelters his wary cautious heart. He earns trust when help is needed, saves him from the jungle fever, and the river mission prospers. Kachecha finds a new calling as ferryman of the Ruth-ling Life Boat.
Betsy Cobb and her doctor brother chase a North Pole ship aboard a Roosevelt excursion. Betsy hides heartbreak until Paul Jensen, long unseen fiancé, appears aboard the Peary ship. Betsy and Paul reunite, revealing two years of engagement and a renewed past love amid chilly bergs and harbor crowds.
A historical reflection from the New York American praising the printing press as the most useful all round invention. It claims intellect drives human mastery and civilization, and the press sharpens the mind, elevating society through improved knowledge.
The Pittsburgh Post notes the battle cry hurrah likely derives not from hosannah but from an ancient Norse cry Thoraldus or Turah meaning Thoraldus, once spelled huzza and pronounced hurray, used by many nations in various forms.
Frederic Harrison, a friend of George Eliot, advised on legal points in her stories. He provided a concise opinion used in Felix Holt, ascribed to the attorney general and printed in italics. Harrison praised Eliot for immortalizing his words in English literature.
In London at Liverpool Street Station a booking clerk denies knowledge of Sawbridgeworth. He is told the country folk pronounce it Sawbridgeworth as Sapsworth, and he retorts that they call it Sapsy. E H Cook reports in London Spectator.
A reflective proverb quotes Lord Avebury advising patience and restraint. It urges not to hurry in matters and suggests sleeping on conflicts, delaying scathing letters, and letting things improve by morning. It emphasizes taking time to think before acting.
A humorous exchange shows a young man promising to pay his landlady and marry soon, while she quips that marriage is unnecessary for paying a few marks. A French proverb about work reducing evils ends the short dialogue.
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