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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1912
Page
6
The Asiatic Americans in the Philippine Islands, the Tingians, are described as uncivilized with bead covered head women, white skirts with blue borders, yellow waists, and silver pipes reeking of cigars. Men wear bead collars, silver jewelry, and coin rings. They dance a palmbeat spiral courtship where a man pursues a woman until she evades him.
The piece explores how every organ has rest periods with the heart and lungs cycling between action and repose. It contrasts older beliefs that sleep stemmed from brain pressure with modern views of brain-centered control and blood flow withdrawal. Examples cite Webster Grant Bonaparte Pitt to illustrate varying sleep habits.
A French professor's suggestion urges replacing cats and dogs with snakes to control rats and mice. Snakes are misunderstood as slimy. their skin is dry and they lack venomous fangs unless they are venomous. Unlike cats and dogs, snakes swallow all prey, reducing vermin and keeping homes cleaner, per Farm and Fireside.
A famed pistol shot recalled a San Francisco supper tale about amateur live pigeon shooting. He described ordering 30 pigeons for 15 cents each, all returning safely with two strays, and a letter offering future birds at 1 cent each. The anecdote, cited from the Los Angeles Times, underscores the event’s oddities.
A teacher blends math and Boxlish as she asks for a sentence using the word fathom. Mary volunteers and quips that reason files can work on the ceiling because they have a fathom, a playful pun from Youth's Cannon.
The American Magazine reprints Goethe’s 1827 conjectures predicting U S expansion beyond the Rockies, Pacific coastal trade hubs, and a canal linking Europe to Asia via Suez. He envisions faster east–west steamship and warship movement, a Panama “will” route, and England controlling a Suez canal. The speaker laments limits of German resources and wishes to witness these vast channels and changes.
The tale recounts a marriage arranged to settle a father's gambling debts. Lady Sarah Cadogan wed the second Duke of Richmond at age thirteen as Lord March, eighteen, left for Europe. He returns years later to discover his bride as a celebrated social favorite, leading to a belated but devoted union.
The St Louis Post Dispatch cites an old Brule Sioux practice to treat colds. A headdressed ritual used a tepee, hot stones, steam, and cold water immersion followed by a whip chase to induce perspiration, then a buffalo robe rest. The text contrasts this with modern reluctance to confront pneumococcus.
They argued while returning presents and examining love tokens on the table. Miss Simmons tells Mr. Brown she cannot repay his kindness for the candy and dinners, and offers herself instead. The quarrel ends with her proposal and a silent agreement.
The Star of the South, Brazil's famed cut diamond, was found by a black woman in 1853. It passed through mine owners, a Bank of Rio Janeiro loan, and a sale at ten times the original price. A syndicate bought it, it was cut in Amsterdam for 2600, and figures from an Indian rajah and the gaekwar of Baroda followed in quick succession.
A quoted exchange from the Detroit Free Press captures a heated moment as a woman accuses a man of impropriety and he retorts that she is milder than many others he has met. The brief dialogue conveys tension and sharp wit between the two speakers.
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