05 Mar 1898
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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Mar 05, 1898
Page
1
Readable fragments of a historical clock or timetable list showing hours and minutes with AM PM markers and numeric codes. The text includes sequences like 1163 747 1 11 42 and ends with P.M. Divis, offering no clear event or人物 beyond a timecode style entry.
In a St Nicholas tale Katharine Pyne depicts a toy shepherdess listening as books on a shelf speak at twilight. The fat book complains of crowding while another laments buzzing stories, a lesson book urges rest, and the shepherdess wishes to be a book living among them on the shelf.
Paul Le Marchant, a clockmaker and secret anarchist, schemes to kill President Mentaure at the Paris Arts and Industries Exhibition. His wife Lucille infiltrates the council in disguise, sparing the president with a ruse involving a ventriloquist’s dummy. The plan fails, Le Marchant is imprisoned, but Mentaure forgives him and banishes him from France for three years. Travissier gains fame as a master ventriloquist for his role in the deception.
An essay argues that public mental health deserves as much protection as physical health. It compares literacy to dentistry, warns against ruined minds from bad writing, and calls for standards to curb unreadable, untrained, or deceitful texts. Harper's Magazine.
At an agency, several young men drank whisky and caused a disturbance. They were tried, convicted, and ordered to perform days of road work. The next morning they worked without guards, continuing daily until their sentences ended. They kept their word to fulfill the sentence, prompting the remark about the value of an Indian’s word versus a white man’s.
A colored preacher in a rural Kentucky tobacco barn tests his topic by rising on an empty hogshead. He proclaims the righteous shall rise and the wicked shall fall, stomps the barrel and sinks from view. Amid the uproar he grips the barrel and resurfaces shouting blessings.
The late Professor Key, once head master of a large London school, was famed for his genial nature. He reminded his pupils of Spain’s manners, recounting that eminent men are titled don rather than sir, sparking a class-wide bout of laughter with the quip Don Keys.
A witty Detroit Journal line quips that a woman cannot find her own pocket while a man can. The terse exchange highlights humor on gendered notions in a brief newspaper item.
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