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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Mar 13, 1909
Page
6
The article traces folio qu ato octavo and duodecimo origins, how folding defines sizes, and how modern printing uses these terms by closest fit rather than exact folding. It notes the shift from strict folding to publisher determined sizes and the continued confusion.
A country gentleman lampoons strict etiquette by arguing that table manners and formal rules have little relation to courtesy. He mocks fish knives, champagne goblets, napkin placements, and even royal forms shown during Louis XIV era, urging freedom to gestures at table. Source: New Orleans Times-Democrat.
The French foreign legion is a diverse force of deserters, political refugees, and restless men from many nations. Officers are French while soldiers come from everywhere. It has existed since the 18th century, structured as two regiments with twelve battalions, about 12,000 men, eight thousand in the Far East and the rest in North Africa. Desertion is rare due to remote French colonial postings.
A fragment from Cleveland Plain Dealer and Pittsburg Gazette quotes a servant admitting a china vase was weak and broke on first drop, and a mistress remarking that paying as you go isn’t enough to cover losses. The exchange highlights frugal advice on repayment.
A tale from the Hapsburg era recounts Archduke Johann traveling incognito in a village and hiring a driver named Anna Plocht who is revealed as a disguised noble. The pair form a bond, marry despite the emperor's objections, and Anna rises from jobmaster’s daughter to baroness and countess with eventual forgiveness.
This piece recounts Quentin Metys a Flemish master born to a blacksmith who turned to painting after his love for a rich Antwerp burgher’s daughter. He painted the ironwork on Antwerp Cathedral and produced an auto portrait in the Uffizi to honor his beloved wife, with a hidden panel behind the frame.
A letter from a U S Navy commander aboard a large battleship describes serving 900 men with ample food clothing and recreation while bearing constant reporting duties. He muses on independence while guiding a 15,000 ton ship and its crew through perilous operations that could captivate the world if the vessel ran aground.
A young soldier leading a detail to clear a rail fence remains calm under fire as hornet imagery and a general praise culminate in an unexpected question about bullets, revealing humility and misinterpretation of danger. The tale highlights composure, promotion logic, and wartime tension in a single anecdote.
A fragment from a Boston Transcript exchange mocks slang and mockery of a circulating tedium. A Johnson quote warns that waiting to do a great deal at emceeing leads to doing none.
In a Maine chronicle, Peter Edes the pioneer printer recalls Sunday walk bans enforced by tything men, a fined apprenticeship dispute aided by Judge Button, and a Bangor advertisement for a school teaching orthography writing and ornamental needlework for young girls, among early Maine educational efforts.
A collage of curiosities and blunders from bygone newspapers. A tongue in cheek note on spelling prowess, a historical tale of Hanoverian lore, and a puzzled exchange about an elevator scene provide quirky glimpses into past newspaper humor and human folly.
Trustees of the deed of trust for Arnold R Messick transfer title to Elmer W Deen and William Brewster Deen and plan to offer the property for sale in front of Thomas O Jefferson's drugstore Federalsburg Caroline county in a recall land record dated January 26 1909 with brief public notice of sale in Liberty L D No 72 fohn 456.
A historic notice advertises a March sale of two Federalsburg tracts in Caroline County with a large canning house and canal drainage rights, plus a shirt factory and land parcels. The ad includes Doan's Kidney Pills testimonials from Denton, urging kidney health and listing the product as the remedy with 50 cent price from Foster Milburn Co. in Buffalo NY.
A Cleveland Leader quip notes Old Cash arrived barefoot a decade ago and now is reportedly a multi millionaire. The remark hints at his dramatic rise from humble beginnings to wealth.
The article extols a historic knock-out blow in boxing and pivots to medical claims for Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery. It asserts cures for weak stomach indigestion and dyspepsia and promises relief for catarrh via mucous-surface action, urging readers to request literature mailed free from Buffalo New York. It mentions no alcohol in the remedies and offers free or low-cost editions of medical guides.
Public sale of undivided one half interest in Bell Mount and Muntington tracts in Hunting Creek Neck Caroline county. Trust by J Edward Douglass to Harvey L Cooper dated December 2 1908. Sale at Denton Court House door March 16 1909 between 2 and 4 pm. Two parcels total about 26 acres. Property improved by a two story dwelling and outbuildings. Terms cash. title papers at purchaser expense.
A local advisory letter urges fruit growers to modernize practices, highlighting the San Jose scale as a deadly threat. It praises Orchard Brand Lime and Sulphur wash from Thompson Chemical Co for easy spraying and pest removal, citing J Spencer Lapham’s success and urging consultation before ordering.
A Caroline County equity court order from February 10 1909 directs publication in a local newspaper for four weeks to notify the absent defendant Arnold R Messick of a divorce bill. The suit claims the marriage when formed in August 1900 was between the plaintiff and defendant, that the defendant was not virtuous, and that corroborating evidence of prior fornication came to light in 1906, prompting separation in April 1906. The plaintiff, now residing in Maryland, requests a decree a vinculo matrimonii.
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