07 Mar 1925
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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Mar 07, 1925
Page
1
A midshipman in India after Manila tales of heroism steps on a cobra in a Bombay hotel garden. With a dog bite scare, matches fail, and a lantern rescue, the crew laughs off danger and jokes about a mongoose or a snake charmer marriage as a remedy.
A historical note traces the word bit through trade and currency. It notes that a five penny bit and the 12 1/4 cent unit derive from the Spanish real and early pricing practices in seacoast towns. It also mentions US usage of a quarter as two bits and links penny bits to British and American colonial pennies.
In a rural doorway Benoni Kemp, a gnarled yet kind man, hears a distant bluebird signaling spring. After a fall, Emily Fearn and John Britton care for him, and he confesses a long love he kept hidden. By dawn, Emily and John marry, as a bluebird returns to the old nest and declares spring is here.
The earliest record notes coal in Acadia now Nova Scotia in 1654, initially gathered rather than mined. By 1721 coal is mentioned in records, with shipments to France from Cape Breton in 1748. A 1740 letter to the French minister of marine cites coal near Indian Cove on Cape Breton.
The Kansas City Star reports Tony was examined for a laborer position in the civil service commissioner’s room. He answered most questions convincingly but stumbled on natralization, finally replying that he had become naturalized last week after a puzzled moment.
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