24 Jun 1905
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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1905
Page
1
Edward Williston Irentz explains the stamp making process from engraving the steel die to final perforation. The article traces die creation, roller replication, printing plates, multiple color passes, gumming, drying, perforation, and final press to ensure uniformity and deter counterfeiting.
General Lew Wallace recalls meeting Abraham Lincoln in Covington at the fall term circuit court sessions. A shabby, unassuming figure captivated the lawyers as Lincoln spoke for three hours, delivering sharp logic and wit. Wallace notes the moment foretold Lincoln’s future prominence, a prophecy later fulfilled.
In Edith Durham's The Burden of the Balkans a visitor recounts danger and superstition. A man proposes a deadly plot against three traitors using poisoned coffee while a doctor’s aid and supper plans mute the risk.
The traveler describes wild elephants in their native haunts noting the animals' gigantic size and their small pale blue eyes set back in the head. He observes the eyes as uncomfortably cold and sinister even when the animal is at rest.
A kitlen wall bag is described as made from white oilcloth bound with strong Dbeard. The bag features a double box plate bottom and several pockets for items like string paper sacks corks and cut newspapers for polishing. Pockets are designed to stay clean and easily wipeable.
A New York Herald account lists giants from antiquity and the Renaissance, with measurements from ten feet to forty four feet. Notable tales include a 30 plus foot tomb near Touch, a 25 foot skeleton in Dauphine graystone, and 1516 Palermo remains. Other finds claim giants in Arabia and Sicily, including a 15 foot skull and 28 foot legends.
Guidance urges a daily nap for children under four and warns against early waking. It advocates neatness for boys and girls, hygiene with monthly baths and brushing, and immediate egg white to neutralize swallowed poisons. It stresses order as vital to future success and outlines simple first aid steps.
A Pilgrim essay honors Florence Daley of Des Moines as a pioneer woman undertaker who studied anatomy while teaching. She coached her husband to pass a state exam and then earned a license herself, focusing on care for women and children as she entered the funeral profession.
A woman behind bars distributes tracts to inmates. One prisoner, No 1313, answers when asked what he is in for, replying that Teane will get out. The exchange ends with the woman moving on.
A brief exchange from Chicago Records Terald questions Heo's originality in poetry. One side argues Heo shows limited novelty while another notes a twenty three line sonnet as a counterexample, sparking debate over creativity.
In Atlantic, Jane Seymour Killk argues the capable mistress often drives efficiency yet can be inconsiderate. She notes the maid’s two week trial, and the kitchen cake episode showing impatience and neglect of preparation and cleanup by the mistress.
Louisv ille Courier Journal notes Pompeii as portrayed by Bulwer Lytton and archaeologists as a completed record of ancient life. It portrays Indolence and frivolity behind marble ruins, with public displays, private orgies, and Rome’s downward arc hinted through preserved temples, villas, theaters, and gardens.
England's state records are housed in a London record office with 180 strong rooms. The chancery roll room holds over 40,000 parchment rolls, each 30 to 40 skins stitched into cylinders. King's bench and common pleas records cover from Richard I to today. Each roll uses long parchment skins bound in vellum covers and weighs 100 to 200 pounds with 500 to 1,000 skins per roll.
Twin earthquakes are two shocks with a quiet interval or two intensity maxima. In Great Britain about one in twenty earthquakes is a twin. The strongest quakes here are of this type, believed to stem from impulses of two detached fault segments along the same crustal fault, separated by miles.
A New York Times quote recounts Dr Keelhyme's calm skill in surgery contrasted by his excitement in a consultation over a mild Meagles attack on one of his own children. The remark highlights the unusual stress of treating family.
A witty remark from the Fortnightly Review praises a dentist by noting the English husband of an American friend. The genial line reads I wish you joy You have married a first rate set of teeth.
The piece argues that anger fear and anxiety grip the body and blood, claiming scientists note these emotions release a poison in the bloodstream. Naturalists liken snake venom generation to human anger, noting no special organ to store it, so it disperses through the body.
A New York mover notes Friday is treated as a holiday in the moving business with strong superstitions. He says many families avoid Friday to move, while workers fear more accidents and damage on that day, yet some still book Friday moves despite the risks.
The London Standard notes the royal veto's earliest use after Agincourt when Henry V said Le roy s'avisera to a petition against legal transfers. It highlights Queen Anne's veto in 1708 halting a militia bill, records its long lapse since then, and mentions 19th century threats by George VI era rulers.
A peography from 1812 labeled Our Italy portrays California as a damp fogbound land with dangerous shores and interior wonders. It claims northern shores host anthropophagi and interior regions host active volcanoes and vast snow plains, with columns rising to inconceivable heights. Despite seems incredible, the book cites 50 trustworthy travelers.
A brief quotation notes that active natures tend toward melancholy and that activity and sadness are incompatible, attributed to the author Bovee without further context.
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