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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1926
Page
7
Daily puzzle feature with horizontal and vertical clues, listing numbers and definitions for words. Includes many entries, abbreviations, and references. instructions note no letters in black squares and that only dictionary words appear except proper names.
A House Detective and a Hotel Stenographer trade lines on memory and illusion. The stenographer admits she forgets the misdeeds of others and the harsh realities of earning, dreaming of luxury while acknowledging the need to send money home. She notes ambition, romance, and the strain on working women facing poverty.
Fragmentary historical note on Charles James Fox praising his liberal stance against harsh British policy toward the American colonies. It recounts his birth in 1749, early entry to Parliament, roles at the Admiralty and Treasury, and shifts in foreign affairs positions, ending with an incorrect death year and garbled text.
The London Daily Chronicle recalls Poole in Dorset as a famed training ground for seafaring fighters. It credits the Irregular Isle of Warbee and Brattses Castle as inspirations for hardy youths and mentions legends Arripay and Harry Pare who defended the seas around 1600. William Thompson’s small squad reportedly captured a French privateer in 1605 before the enemy’s shock.
A fragment discusses the saying carrying coals to Newcastle as a futile labor. It notes Newcastle as a coal center and port, then mentions similar proverbs in French and Greek, with references to owls in Athens and pepper in Hindu lore. The passage highlights rarity and variety of such idioms across languages.
The passage discusses the value of simplicity in poetry and art, arguing that beauty, pathos, and sublimity arise from natural, serene effort rather than forced cleverness. It critiques over clever conceits while praising genuine inspiration across literature.
In the Kitchen series presents a meatless company menu from Battle Creek College of Home Economics. Dietitian Miss Margaret Allen Hall provides a meatless menu including eggs and tea servings. Recipes feature Eggplant a la King, glazed sweet potatoes, Ritzi tomatoes, fruit salad a la creme, bread, beverage, and butterscotch pie with step by step directions.
A Cleveland Plain Dealer note details the guitar’s origins from the cithara in ancient Greece to the bow-stringed gloli in Asia Minor, its spread via Moorish Spain, and its rise in European courts. It notes key figures in Italy, England, Germany, Spain and the United States shaping its prominence through the 17th to 19th centuries.
A dated kitchen recipe segment outlines sweet potato bake with syrup, tomato toast, fruit plate with Cream Salad Dressing, and instructions for the dressing. Includes steps for peeling boiling slicing and baking potatoes, making a sugar water syrup with butter, and a separate cream based dressing with lemon juice yolks salt and whipped cream.
A Manchester Guardian note mocks modern wedding cake trends abandoning Gothic decoration. It recalls a fictional scene from Pendennis where Alcide Mirabolant creates symbolic dishes for love, contrasting with a cake that would lack such theatrical symbolism. The piece comments on style and taste in traditional wedding symbolism.
Pierre Vu Paussen cites Doctor Cabanes in the Atlanta Constitution to defend Lucretia Borgia as a woman of spirit who balanced state interests with personal life, arguing she was not the wicked figure commonly painted and that historical judges used harsh judgments of her era.
Step by step dough method for a double pie or two shells with salt fat flour and ice water. Holliottly pastry with a rich hazy filling of egg yolks brown sugar milk flour butter vanilla then baked. Then notes on stove chimneys claim long chimneys improve combustion and heat distribution for meatless meals.
A quotation from Othner Weadell Holmes on genius minds and balance of intellect and emotion. The text argues excess intellect can complicate feelings, while a calm mind supports love and friendship, noting the danger of the brain ruling the heart without measure.
Prof Lars Noe of the University of Chicago reports a fossilized trunk from the Carbondale formation near West Frankfort. The preserved section stands about ten feet and the unearthed portion around five feet, suggesting a full tree near 100 feet tall. The trunk bears close-set leaf scars and scant branching with leaves covering the trunk, resembling fish scales. The genus name Lepidodendron means scale tree.
The National Tribune notes that Spanish conquest priests destroyed ancient Aztec writings, but scientists have recovered about 500 Aztec poems revealing early ideas and practices. Further discoveries in Yucatan and Peru may expand knowledge of these premodern cultures.
The Fishmongers' Company, ancient and venerable, traces its grants from early kings and traces its duty to enforce quality at London markets. Its income funds three almshouses, including Jesus Hospital in Bray, with provisions for forty elderly residents, six to be the best aged and poorest decayed members over fifty.
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