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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Mar 25, 1922
Page
4
In a Lauenburger district village, three locals tortured a woman they deemed demon possessed. They gathered herbs at a starry conjunction, bound her to three chairs, burned herbs on a red hemp pall, and chanted until they fled. The woman’s cries persisted until a passerby freed her.
In Streatham, London, an electric lamp post reportedly lit up without warning at dusk and burned briefly before self-extinguishing. The odd phenomenon drew quiet curiosity from residents as a ticking glow appeared and then vanished, sparking speculation among onlookers. In the same issue, a tale of a shiftless borrower and a guarantor unfolds, revealing a coincedent note payment dispute ending with the guarantor settling the debt.
An OCR fragment lists proverbs linked to Chaucer and Shakespeare, noting famous lines such as Familiarity breeds contempt and All the world’s a stage. It cites dates and authors with misspellings and partial phrases, illustrating how proverbs migrated across eras.
The Yukon is one of the great rivers of the world, over 2,000 miles long and the longest in the Western hemisphere. It exceeds the Columbus and Colorado in size and is longer than most North American rivers except the Mississippi system. Reports trace its discovery by a Russian lieutenant in 1842 and early exploration leading to telegraph ventures, Kennicott’s Yukon Trail descent, and the first trading steamer in 1860, with gold rediscovery at Nome in 1899 noted.
In the old Metamora courthouse Lincoln won a fraud suit over a horse trade. His rival wore a new backless style shirt with a long pointed collar, misbuttoned. Lincoln argued the opponent knew little about the trade, joking the jury that he might not know when his shirt is on right.
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