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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Mar 21, 1903
Page
4
A boy at St Elizabeth's recalls choosing a yellow nankeen jacket to outshine rival Met a Mort and win Georgette's regard. Instead he is mocked as a canary, ruining other garments and learning a blunt lesson in vanity and childish longing.
A boy endures bullying at school for wearing a yellow sickle like a canary. Georgette carries an ink bottle and vows to be his wife, but an accident frees him from the ink stained jacket. Years pass as he recalls Georgette fondly, though he accepts he may never marry. He confesses he did not drink the ink.
A county town circuit court house hears a young countrywoman testify that her sweetheart was with her at the scene. The advocate and judge press for corroboration but the witness insists her lover will not come into court and barely consents to court her outside the room.
An Irishman takes his goose for Sunday dinner at an inn. A seedy thief grabs the bird and runs, but Pat chases him and recovers the goose. The thief says he took it for a lark. Pat retorts that he’d make a bad poultry show judge. From the Kansas City Independent.
During a grim stretch in St Ives Wesley and Nelson endured hunger and rough lodgings as they preached to a reluctant people. For nearly a month they slept on the floor with scarce comforts, yet Wesley’s cheerful note at 3 a.m. proclaimed renewed joy indicating resilience and faith amid adversity.
The tale recalls Joseph Jefferson as a boy touring the United States with his father’s company. In Springfield Illinois a revival era town council sought a heavy acting permit fee. A local lawyer pleaded for the troupe and led to a free performance, later earning fame as Abraham Lincoln per the Kansas City Journal.
A Charleston News column argues that cheerfulness strengthens both body and mind, aiding recovery from illness and improving judgment in business. It notes a merry heart acts like medicine and warns that sour, pessimistic attitudes hinder risk taking and fairness in work relationships.
The lord high chancellor earns £10,000 a year while the lord chief justice gets £8,000 and the masters of the rolls £6,000. Lords of appeal, high court judges, and court of appeal justices earn £5,000. the attorney general tops others at £7,000 plus fees. Solicitor general at £6,000 with fees. Private practitioners sometimes exceed official incomes, especially leaders in common cases, patent work, or parliamentary practice.
A worried father argues about giving paregoric to the baby, claiming opium harms growth and health. The mother refuses, insisting she will not give a drop, while the father worries about stopping the infant’s yelling and contemplates action.
On a Sixth Avenue elevated line during a grim rainy day a cheerful man boarded at Forty-second Street and sat beside a sour, solitary passenger. He broke the silence with a weather remark, prompting a sharp retort about personal matters from the sulky reader.
In 1730 Philadelphia had 12,000 residents, Boston 11,500, and New York 8,600. Twenty years later Philadelphia reached 18,000, Boston 14,000, and New York 10,000. By 1790 Philadelphia remained first with 44,000, New York rose to 33,000, and Boston stood at 18,000.
A strict keeper records how the Andersons in California hired a Chinese man named Wing Tee as a cook and handyman. Neighbors taught him ushering but Wing proved ignorant of social courtesies. A caller's card caused a blunder when Wing read aloud Mina and sent the guest away.
A collector and a visitor discuss a bric-a-brac oak table. The visitor asserts an Arabic table over 2,000 years old, calling the Egyptian multiplication table authentic history. The collector questions the claim as a joke about a multiplication table.
Barry Pain recounts a London omnibus tale where a conductor traps a foreign coin to test honesty. A passerby tries to lift the coin, a sixpence misleads a passenger, and two ladies claim it leads to a comic confrontation about ownership and a hidden tack.
During the American War of Independence England aimed for friendship with North American Indians. Large medals were minted to honor chiefs who aided George III. The obverse shows the king in armor with a laurel wreath. the reverse depicts an Indian and a white man sharing a peace pipe under a tree, with wigwams in the background and the motto Happy While United. The suspension loop is on an eagle's wing with a calumet of peace crosswise.
A humorous exchange notes literature runs in the Scribbler family as daughters write poetry sons write plays and mother writes stories nobody will read. the father quips that he writes checks that nobody will cash.
In the Baltimore Herald a wife asks her husband if he dislikes the new dishes. He explains the flavors come from a recipe in a cookbook, but she jokes the book might be a dialect story. The exchange highlights playful kitchen mishaps and literary misreads.
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