21 Jun 1924
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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1924
Page
1
Bargain catalog highlights three garment lengths from $16.50 to $42.50 offering comfort at one dollar per item. Shoppers can choose length options from three quarters and ankle styles with emphasis on value and fit.
Robert Avery leaves the city for work and clashes with his mother over marrying locally. He falls for Eleanor Barker, a private secretary, while two aunts in Waverton guide the match with Maizie Wood’s family. The entwined families discover shared roots as Bob plans a homegrown future.
The essay notes totems as annual symbols in biblical figures and native clans. It cites Judah, Issachar, Benjamin, Dan, and God as animal symbols, explains interclan marriage rules, descent claims, and taboos on harming totems. Modern examples point to British Columbia coast Indians and tribes in New Zealand and Australia.
The Peacock throne, once in the divanikhas in Delhi during Shah Jahan and Aurangzeb's reign, was six by four feet, supported by six feet of solid gold and encrusted with gems. It featured inlaid diamonds emeralds and rubies, a canopy, and two peacock figures with a parrot carved from a single emerald. Estimates of its cost range from 10 million to 50 million dollars.
A critical view counters romantic depictions of South Sea Islands by poets and explorers. The Japan Advertiser argues that idealized tales by Florre Loti Frederick O'Brien and Lord Byron mislead readers. It notes Byron never visited the islands and calls Neuba a fictional figure.
The saying is often credited to Horace Greeley but was first used by John L. Soule in the 1831 Terre Haute Express. Greeley later claimed he did not author the expression, though he popularized it in an editorial about reform.
Jane schemes to unite five single women living in a New York apartment with their former sweethearts. Her plan succeeds as each pair marries and the women seek homes, while Jane and her legal adviser George consider subletting the apartment to start a life together in town or the suburbs.
The Geffrye museum in an old almshouse on Kingsland Road houses fragments of Jacobean and Georgian London. Built in 1712, the quadrangle contains a doorway, fireplace, staircase and cupboards from vanished homes. About 60 daily visitors come, mostly local wood workers, with Americans visiting in June and July and sometimes acquiring a Grinling Gibbons carving.
The Pathfinder explains cylindrical snow masses called snow rollers form when wind shapes light fresh snow into a soft, hollow muff shaped roll. Sections of surface turn and roll along in the same direction, growing until they become too heavy to move, leaving spiral wrapping around a central hole.
The piece reflects on rings as symbols of unity from the pope and bishops to the doge of Venice throwing a ring into the sea. It notes the Norse legend of the Nibelungs and the dwarfs forging world power within the magical ring.
A curious elm sapling thrives inside Kyrle's church pew at Ross Herefordshire. The elm avenue planted by John Kyrle, the Man of Ross born 1637 died 1724, remains a local landmark with two root suckers pushing through the pew floor, sometimes seeming dead but now flourishing.
An English officer returns from Africa with a servant, a Kaffir, tasked as a batman. While reading, the officer notices Pete peering over his shoulder and asks what he wants. Pete asks which race reads books, whites or blacks, revealing a crude racial stereotype.
Cracks in furniture can be filled with beeswax. Soften wax until pliable, press into cracks, smooth with a knife, sand the surrounding wood, and work dust into the wax. This creates a wood finish and helps the cracks disappear after varnishing.
The first paper mill in America began operation near Philadelphia in 1690 with hand papermaking. Rags were beaten into pulp by hand until 1756 when a pulp engine from Holland was introduced.
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