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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Mar 06, 1909
Page
2
Denton Journal for Saturday morning March 6 1909 delivers local notices and brief items. It presents community notes and publisher details from H. Johnson Melvin Johnson, with page two content typical of a small town paper.
A wireless telephone company opens offices in the Union Trust Building Baltimore and plans a tower feet high atop the structure. The system links distant points without wires claiming clearer voice transmission and long distance reach. Also noted are Roosevelt Africa travel speculation, political notes, and regional weather impacts.
The piece argues for strict compliance with the Pure Food Law to restore consumer trust in canned goods and stabilize prices. It critiques preservatives like benzoate of soda, cites Dr. Wiley, and condemns inferior, debased products harming the poor and laboring classes. It emphasizes transparency, nutrition, and the need to offer foods in their best state without chemical additives.
In a Baltimore Sun interview Senator Charles P Coady defends Baltimore's demand for greater legislative representation and rejects population based apportionment as unsafe for county interests. Senator Goldsborough counters that proportional representation misreads state balance and wealth, stressing county needs and regional differences.
Rev Frank J Benson argues that Jesus embodies a limitless world vision for a Christian civilization He is a world man whose truth spans all time and nations The church must embrace a global commission and broaden its evangelism to match Christ’s expansive ideal and mighty enterprise United by faith believers should act boldly to carry salvation to all nations and inspire a world changing mission
The Toomas and Messer Company at 1015 West Baltimore Street Baltimore Maryland offers wallpaper patterns at 5 cents per piece gilt wallpaper at 8 cents per piece and window shades at 72 cents each window dressings advertised for home decor in a compact price list.
A sermon notes how Philip, guided by the Holy Spirit, meets an Ethiopian eunuch in the desert near Gaza and preaches Jesus. The lesson highlights personal evangelism, the eunuch’s understanding, baptism, and the spread of the gospel from Samaria to Africa, with Philip’s sudden removal signaling new fields of labor.
The excerpt paints spring returning to a threshold with green and white attendants. Earth wakes from its sleep as warblers begin to sing and insect wings glitter in sunlight. Pussy-willows shed fur and a lone bee emerges from its hive, fluttering unevenly after winter.
A compact alert promoting subscription to the Journal County News offering readers access to all local county news and updates. No dates, places, or individuals specified.
An analysis of an unusually mild winter notes dramatic temperature swings and scant snow or ice. It cites weather bureau data showing below normal days but record warm spells, along with high rainfall and humidity, and discusses health, clothing, and investment advice sections from contemporaneous sources.
The Department of Farmers Institutes wrapped a two month tour through Maryland counties ending last week. It reached directly over 10 000 farming industry people in the state. The program used a specially fitted passenger car traveling to multiple points.
A corps of expert lecturers argued farming has evolved from trade to science. They highlighted fifty years of progress in cultivation methods and product quality, noting the January February Maryland lecture tour inspired young listeners to apply new ideas, while stressing farming remains the world’s chief industry and the need for continual improvement.
A nurse at a New York children’s home advertises Mother Gray’s Sweet Powders, claiming 24 hour relief for sickly children and teething disorders while curing feverishness, headaches, stomach troubles, and worms. Available at druggists for 25 cents. free sample by mail from Allen S Olmsted, Roy, NY.
Easton Maryland seeks fifty female workers for shirt assembly at the Easton Shirt Manufacturing Company. Apply in person for immediate employment and steady daytime shifts at the factory on Easton Main Street.
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