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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Mar 09, 1912
Page
3
V J Vincent, known as Val, bears a comic Valentine name and a face ridiculed for red hair and long nose. He endures jokes while keeping a tender devotion to his mother and a growing friendship with Marcia Dillon. A misplaced Valentine and a final choice test his resolve.
A vintage ad voice extols Fels Naptha soap for quick relief from laundry chores. It promises ease and savings on Mondays, detailing simple steps to treat clothes, soak, rub, rinse, blue, and hang, while stressing the soap works passively and requires less effort and no harsh scrubbing.
The Russian Duma enacted a ban on sable trapping from February 14, 1913, to October 29, 1916, amid rapid declines from continuous, reckless trapping in the Yakovtsk Lena and Amur districts. true sable, a pine marten relation, features small sizes and distinctive blue-tinted pelts, with Irbitsk fair selling 20,000 impersonator skins annually.
While walking with her husband in Regent Street, Madame Patti overheard a man remark to his friend that Albani would cut Patt in photos. She turned and quietly replied, “Thank you, sir,” then walked on, recounts in Madame Albani’s memoirs.
John T. Powers carried a two inch mouse with a red bow into the Van Nuys hotel lobby, provoking screams and a swift exit when the creature moved. Powers said the mouse was procured in El Paso and has become his constant companion. He feeds it thrice daily, names it Billy, keeps it by his bed, and takes it to opera and theater, noting the animal prefers music to drama.
Mrs Dul lard welcomes Rev A Alexander Chopin Sue for his first call with her family. She boasts of her children's musical talents and urges Robert to perform the Jolly Boy Waltz, then Lutle and Percy to join in a duet and May to play Bringing in the Sheaves. The minister hesitates but the lively scene continues with more piano pieces.
A three year old son of a Northside family grew fascinated by a neighbor’s photograph. The parents staged a pretend bedtime to teach him a lesson. The boy, at eight, returned home to a dark gate and asked his mother to tell Benjamin’s father he wanted to come in. Next morning he asked if it was time for a night key.
Dr Henry Campbell, quoted in the Practititioner, suggests wearing regular convex lens glasses to blur surroundings and reduce self consciousness. He notes women blush more often, but men seek help more for morbid blushing and cites cases of a man leaving the army a doctor and a minister suddenly losing nerve due to blushes.
The tale explains lapel nicks as a secret sign among Napoleon supporters for General Moreau. Admirers nicked their lapels to mark fellowship, the coat outline forming the letters MM after the nick.
An inoffensive gentleman named Charles Saips bury Pickwick Esq faced ridicule after Dickens's novel. He advertised in The Times that he would abandon his surname due to the byword about Pickwick. He claimed his name traced to a knightly origin from Piquet vite meaning spur fast.
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