21 Mar 1925
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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Mar 21, 1925
Page
1
Bright colors dominate the Spring 1925 lineup at Everngain’s with coat and dress selections from New York ready to wear. The store promotes high color coats, gowns, light-weight fabrics, silk hosiery, lisle threads, and ready-to-wear ensembles priced within reach. Visitors are invited to explore the new season’s styles at The Store of Better Styles.
A range of Walk-Over and Queen Quality footwear features Step-in Pumps Strap Pumps snug-fitting Gores Chant er Ties and leathers in calf-skin patent and satin. Prices run from 5.00 to 7.75 dollars.
Christopher Hare a failed composer in New York hits rock bottom after failing to secure acceptance for his opera Mariamne. Facing eviction and starvation he contemplates suicide but a letter from Sterne offers a glimmer of hope as a physician reveals a fatal irony in his poisons entwined as antidotes.
A commemorative tablet will be unveiled in Paris at the St Louis hospital group site where gas works began in 1707. Engineer Philippe Lebon tested gas from wood, calling it thermolamps, but his murder at Bonaparte’s coronation halted his work. Gas faced early alarm from oil and candle merchants and initial public resistance at the opera in 1819 before Paris gas firms formed by 1824.
A sixteen year old pecan tree from Kosciusko Mississippi set a record price for a single tree. Though its timber value was negligible, a nursery bought it for grafting due to its extraordinary pecan yield. The tree bore nine years and produced large nuts with 25 weighing a pound. The nursery plans to remove grafting parts to improve other stock.
A motor tourist asks if children have a good school teacher. Gap Johnson of Rumpus Ridge replies that she behaves differently during revivals, praying as if she were directing divine business, and others remark on her sharp, cautious manner during the encounter.
Packard and Welmar reached the summit of Mount Blanc on August 8 1780 the first ascent of Europe. They stood up 0 minutes while the ther onometer showed 14 below and provisions froze in their pockets.
The final stylite among forty hermits who once perched on pillars above the temple of Zeus at Olympia near Athens died around 1860, ending a long obscure religious custom.
The minarets of Mohammedan mosques are towers from which the officer in charge issues the muezzin call to prayer. All true Mohammedans face east and engage in devotion at the signal.
Tong Sue controls Cape de Castro and fends off four rivals as a gold find drives greed. He confronts planned ambushes, scrambles to hide his wealth, and is lured into a fatal trap by a shark ready to feed on the buffalo meat tainted with his hoard.
British patent records show Joseph Aspdin received a patent for artificial stone named portland cement. The material, said to resemble Portland stone, became widespread worldwide. Aspdin started a Wakefield factory with his sons, and William built Portland Hall in Gravesend with a concrete fence still standing as a monument.
A Kansas City Star quip quotes J Fuller Gloom on recovering six umbrellas after lamenting a stolen expensive umbrella. He aims for a dozen by week’s end, joking that growling prompts others to hand him replacements.
In court, Corporal Stoggs testifies he was on canteen duty when the row started and identifies Private Noggs striking Sergeant Snocks. He says the sergeant hit Noggs first, showing the accused’s deliberate action in the incident.
Amethyst is described as an emblem of humility and sobriety, linked to February and Venus. It is associated with Sagittarius in the Zodiac, copper in metallurgy, St. Matthew in Christian art, and the prelate's gem in the pastoral ring of bishops within the Roman Catholic Church.
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