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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1928
Page
7
This article urges players to learn Auction Bridge rules etiquette and the fixed laws, noting common habits and missteps. It stresses proper conduct, the importance of following declarer play from dummy, using the Auction Bridge language, and avoiding revokes. It advises shunning unreliable players and valuing dependable partners.
A well known matinee idol questions a loyal backstage worker about his career. The worker replies I am a Baptist while the star insists he means vocation, not belief. The exchange ends with the Seene airlifter clarifying Naw that is your belief while highlighting the actor's curious preoccupation with lesser fights around him.
Modern fashion trends push leather from snakes to boas, sourcing skins from water snakes of Java and Sumatra and python hides. English and Dutch merchants popularized these goods, with Parisian women among eager buyers, though many deny awareness of the animals’ fate.
In Damascus a pale emaciated dervish-like figure measures cloth as merchants fear bankruptcy. Ali Bey observes that shrouds now serve pilgrims to Mecca, not the dead, and that the fakir’s ragged robe is a symbol of poverty. Sultans like Nureddin Saladin and Bihars are said to be interred in such garb.
A Montreal Family Herald writer argues against a British professor’s prophecy that fifty years hence people will live only in hotels and eat in restaurants. The writer says love creates and sustains homes, noting even in ancient times people lived in shared dwellings and cliff dwellings with improvements, and that home exists wherever family is.
The phrase the seven seas denotes all oceans, not fixed wells of water. It traces to ancient Hindu Persian Roman Hebrew usage and was popularized in modern times by Rudyard Kipling in 1896.
A young married woman, with her four year old, leaves a doctor visit where a carriage outing is advised. The girl asks where babies come from and, after a back and forth about God, wonders why God cannot provide a carriage as well. The aunt answers with a simple divine explanation.
The text argues that speech conveys ideas and that engineers must extend the spoken word through electrical intercommunication systems. These systems will connect each societal unit’s nervous system to others, becoming an indispensable element in the envisioned vast, evolving social organism.
The Natural Bridge in Virginia was formed by stream erosion. The current structure arose after a tunnel roof collapse caused by water seeping through a fissure and enlarging a channel beneath the stream, diverting water and leaving the bridge.
The term Idiom Kanakas is described as a popular name for natives of Lawaii New Caledonia New Hebrides and other islands in the South seas.
A humorous verse pack contrasts gender roles with relation to gifts, truth, and money. It plays on expectation and timing in love and finances, noting timeless dif ferences between present and future promises.
A historical note explains how tall buildings and narrow streets create miniature wind storms. On hot days heated air rises along structures and, if unobstructed, forms strong winds that sweep down streets and split into multiple currents.
A compact critique of over-expression across journalism poetry and clergy. It traces Victorian and Georgian prose excess with playful examples and cites John Galsworthy noting reader margins dismissing florid phrasing.
Swedish scientist Svante Arrhenius proposes life is a universal force, emitted as spores from habitable worlds. These spores travel through space for years, mostly destroyed by starlight, with a few seeding life on suitable bodies, possibly via meteors as well.
A readable fragment shows a claim that minds are exempt from taxation, with lingering doubt about the legality and fairness. The quote hints at broader debates on rights and taxation tied to identity and public policy.
Vandervelde wife of the Belgian statesman recalled visiting the Paderewskis on Lake Geneva. Paderewski played Chopin as a parrot perched on his foot and then shoulder cried good boy. Aime Paderewski spoke of his love for chickens and incubator hatchings. his wife went to witness each event.
The Kansas City Star portraits Francesco Petrarch as a pivotal scholar who bridged medieval and modern eras. Born 1304 and died 1374, he preceded printing yet built a vast library and treated ancient Greece and Rome as living totems, shaping Italy for the Renaissance.
Hannah More extols the Miscellaneous Society of London for sharpening conversation by removing prejudice, curbing egotism, and teaching concise, listener friendly speech. It advocates opposing views with civility, avoiding novelty, and delivering ideas without detail.
Suburban households now greet returning fathers at rail stations with car rides and accompanying children. Housewives, dogs, and dolls form welcoming parties, creating lively scenes described as circus like by the New York Times near a small New York area station.
Professor Edward Chovins Williams notes that in China actors were banned under the old regime from civil service exams for three generations. They were grouped with beggars and butchers as unfit for office due to their menial roles and exposure to blood. The text mentions possible loopholes such as adoption by a free person to regain entry.
The London Evening News laments displacement of the traditional English apple tart by foreign substitutes. It claims the American apple pie fuels dyspepsia and restlessness, describing it as a culinary incendiary bomb amid a shift toward American influence on prosperity.
A short witty line from Cross Magazine notes the perfume Then Let Us Pour Happiness is not poured on others without leaving a few drops on the wearer.
In 1850 Millard Fillmore learned humor defines a president. When Ed ward Moran found a second-hand Washington coach, Fillmore joked about riding in a second-hand carriage. Moran’s quip earned Fillmore the nickname the second-hand President during his three-year term.
London Answers notes customs around Good Friday across Europe and England. It describes naming variations in France Germany and Italy and folk beliefs about eggs bread and infants affecting fires rats and fevers. Warnings from West-country folk advise against washing clothes to avoid misfortune.
An excerpt notes that most people bore each other and that popularity serves only a few. It laments intergenerational weariness between old and young, and calls for self-control as a stipulation of decent conduct. It ends with a reminder to behave well to avoid being a pest.
A family dinner lesson unfolds as a father claims most pineapples come from Hawaii in the Atlantic Ocean. An older daughter challenges him, a dusty atlas prompts a chase, and the Hawaiian islands are found in the Pacific. The line ends with they must buy a new map.
A rooster in a village run performs an ostrich egg stunt and delivers a humorous, grandiose address about national interest and communal loyalty, parodying selfless action and public rhetoric.
Pathfinder Magazine notes that the expression Tull as a tek refers to biologically degraded spider family creatures that attach to people to suck blood and drop off when culled. It clarifies the phrase has no link to bed ticks and that full as a tick is an old saying with unknown origin.
A Farm Journal quip on half the world missing the point of others fashion items and weather gear. It playfully notes how people miss how the other half handles umbrellas galoshes and similar goods.
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