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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Mar 09, 1901
Page
2
The Denton Journal argues the county should adopt a contract system for road work to save money. It cites 1898 1899 and 1900 expenditures averaging far higher per district under the current method and claims contracts with bonds could cut costs to about three fifths. The piece notes taxpayers await the commissioner's choice amid big inaugural expenses and military pageantry in Washington.
The excerpt argues that educational voter qualifications are not new, citing Balch’s 1885 analysis that readers and writers supported literacy requirements. It notes state sovereignty over voting rules, with federal limits on race, and predicts broader adoption of educational or property-based ballots, reflecting local taxpayer support for reform and a Massachusetts-like ballot law.
The piece denounces McKinley s second inauguration as imperial in scale and autocratic in tone. It argues public pageantry masks loss of liberty and criticizes the vast public spending, noting the cost is never fully known but acknowledged as enormous.
The Sun notes the Fifty-sixth Congress total appropriations near 1.5 billion dollars with 710 million in the first session and 750 million spent in the session. It compares past records, warns of parochial excess, and forecasts even larger future bills from a broader, empire-minded Congress. It cites ship subsidies, cables, public buildings, canals, irrigation, and new rivers as likely expenses funded by taxation.
A new exhibitions on wheels train, led by President Earle of the League of American Wheelmen, will tour the Eastern and Southern States next June to demonstrate good roads equipment and highway improvements. The mobile display will build sample roads at each stop to educate communities on road value and motivate investment in infrastructure.
John D. Rockefeller Jr. urged a New York students club audience to seek character friendship health and success. He declared the secret of success is to do the common duty each day unusually well and noted the value of living by example as the son of America’s wealthy business leader.
The final adjustment of the Revenue Reduction Bill repeals taxes on bank checks certificates of deposit promissory notes money orders express receipts telephone messages miscellaneous bonds conveyances below 1500 insurance of all kinds leases manifests mortgages powers of attorney protests.
A Maryland editorial summary notes J Frank Turner appointed clerk of the court of appeals after fifteen applicants, his background as former Comptroller of the Treasury, and his age about 60. It also covers Irish Saint Patrick's Day customs, McKinley and Roosevelt inaugurations, coffee moderation, mail classifications, Rev J Earle Maley, Prince Albert coat naming, a Niagara Buffalo transmission line, aluminum cables, Bell Telephone Co ruling, census and representation in St Mary’s, John E Searles’ sugar trust bankruptcy, and Baltimore’s new Democratic daily, the Star with Col A B Cunningham as editor.
J. C. Harrington was elected the ugliest man in town, receiving a handsome glass pipe from the glass blowers on Saturday night. He took the joke well, noting that election value depends on the electors' qualifications.
George E. Martin writes from San Jose de Buena Vista to Mr. George Huber in Hagerstown. He details jungle patrols in Co. A of the 19th Infantry, encounters in two skirmishes, and his fondness for tuba tuba liquor. He notes deteriorating conditions, says locals are dangerous, and jokes about courting Mexican wives and buying a whole family if invited.
Since H. M. Thomas passed away, Camden seeks a new head for its poultry yards to keep the town at the forefront of the industry. Mgr. Thomas helped Camden gain prominence from Maine to Florida, and now Mr. T. Coke Chambers has launched an effort to maintain high standards with prize winning pens from the H. M. Thomas heirs. Chambers is experienced and deliberate in his approach, while John H. Jenkins has also chosen pens though less extensively. Both recently bought Barred Rock cockerels to lead their breeding programs, a move some call extravagant.
Bryan argues in the Commoner that the Spooner amendment to the army appropriation bill gives the President imperial power. He says Republicans support arbitrary rule, with no checks or time limit, allowing one person to wield all branches of government over Filipino subjects in the name of liberty. History shows no such abrupt transformation.
A daily paper writer recommends lining a plate with geranium leaves when baking a cake and turning the cake onto the leaves to absorb their fragrance as it cools, yielding a delicate flavor reminiscent of La France roses.
The Hubbard fertilizer works at 237 and 239 Smith's dock near Gay street burned early yesterday morning. Total damage estimated around $7,000 with stock loss about $5,000, machinery $1,000, and the building $1,000. Origin unknown but fires likely started in the elevators. Stock valued at $6,000 insured. Sun.
An Honest Medicine for La Grippe George W. Waitt of South Gardiner Maine says he suffered a severe cough cold and grip and only Chamberlains Cough Remedy helped after one bottle the chills cold and grip left him He praises the medicine and notes it is for sale by R J Colston in Denton Hugh Duffey Hillsboro and T W Smith Ridgely.
The Vindicator notes two cures of rheumatism using Chamberlain’s Pain Balm. An editor experienced instant relief in the shoulder after two applications and a severe thigh joint rheumatism case eased with two applications at night. Markets listed include R J Colston Denton Hugh Duffey Hillsboro and T W Smith Ridgely. A pig joke follows about over eating shortening life. Obituaries include Norris child Frances Courtney and Emerson child Sadie L. at Baltimore and mentions family relations.
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