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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Mar 26, 1904
Page
3
The article notes migratory birds feed heavily on weed seeds during harvest. They travel slowly when food is abundant, sometimes only a few miles per day or week, rather than rapidly. Seeds ripen in late summer and fall, driving the mass movement as birds gorge, distend stomachs, and seek ripening fields rather than reacting to cold weather.
A Kentucky mountaineer who had never seen a railroad train visits town. He rushes along the track to meet it, fearing not to cut across as the locomotive slows. He arrives exhausted, explaining he avoided the plowed ground to stay ahead of the train.
A Detroit factory hand tells his foreman that stinginess since buying a new house left him underfed and now paying medical bills. The remark, cited by the Detroit News, humorously links frugality to sickness, highlighting financial strain in daily life.
A Boston Record article recounts Bishop Dudley of Kentucky using a story about a young colored girl in his church. He posed a question about a hanging branch with a fat chicken to illustrate temptation, and the girl replied she was only an infant in the kingdom.
Observations show arboreal birds such as sparrows and vireos sit on nests with the head toward the trunk on horizontal limbs. When nests are elevated the nest sits face the prevailing wind so birds on or off the nest align with the wind, with most birds on the nest facing the wind in strong gusts.
A tribute recalls how he valued his mother and her advice. He quoted her saying that while law could cap ambitions, business offered limitless opportunities. He chose his father's business, never forgetting her guidance and the path she urged.
The article argues whether women are weaker or stronger morally and intellectually, or essentially different from men. It presents a threefold view: men provide intellect and physical labor, while women add the psychic element of feeling, shaping the home and influencing complete human works. It cautions against restricting women to home life or politics.
A fragmentary tale describes a Bengal engagement ritual with a lad protecting a beloved using a bow and arrow as a test of commitment. It contrasts this with Bohemia where peasant engagements frequently last fifteen to twenty years, treated as normal by family observers.
Uncle Hosea recalls a concert scene where a proud small drummer defies a smart aleck and keeps beating the big drum despite orders. Mary and Susan in It was Mary's day out discuss insults from an employer and a dancer ready to quit rather than touch the master’s work, reflecting London Globe reporting.
A stranger asks Hopkins depot about the best lawyer. A local man proclaims he is the only lawyer in town and refuses to prove it, then promptly takes on a new client in a brief exchange reported by Jiangas City Journal.
Within three miles of Carrickfergus Ireland there are at least twelve salt mines though only about half are active now. The rock origin is traced under the sea across the English Channel past the Isle of Man to the salt cliffs of north Wales.
A Boston Herald note urges articulation on the reported disappearance of the Sea of Azof. The piece recalls old sayings about the sea ceasing and sufficing us, framing the issue as a matter of historical memory and rhetorical concern.
A New York Herald feature on Adirondack natives using simple woods remedies. It cites yarrow, balsam fir, gravel weed, bladder root, sage leaf, hermonia, sunflower seeds, horseradish leaves, nutmeg, onions, and other folk treatments for coughs, infections, neuralgia, and boils. The piece notes the thrifty natives rely on these age old cures and chide modern doctors as less relied upon.
Lord Wolseley recounts a practice in early service days where barrack masters and old sergeants profited from petty charges on young officers. He recalls a cracked pane being treated as a “silver mine” and how many paid for a new pane, plus a tale of a barrack sergeant insisting on a payment for a key he kept.
A Chicago Tribune piece on storytelling and memory compares tales to literature pigeons. A father quips about the desk’s pigeonholes as homes for short stories, while a child asks about their meaning, prompting a humorous explanation.
A Melvin man proposed marriage to a local belle. She warns she is a somnambulist, but he accepts saying they will attend different churches. George remarks they can go to their respective churches together. Source: Roberts Herald.
A Philadelphia laundry worker’s son studying English wrote a note to his Sunday school teacher using the term Expensive Miss instead of Dear Miss. The teacher was surprised and edified by the unusual greeting reported by Youth.
A Paris millionaire dies and at his funeral service an heir reads out loud from a book believed to be prayers for the departed. A neighbor glimpses the volume and finds it is actually a copy of the civil code opened to the succession chapter.
A new post office in a Canadian town hires a farmer's son, but a traveling salesman arrives with a money order. The postmaster demands identification. The traveler presents a photo from his pocketbook, proving he is the rightful recipient, and the order is cashed.
An Akron business nun recalls a years ago scheme by merchants selling a fair restorer with a fakir. A tale described a woman drinking the remedy and showing a tongue with hair, then being fed camphor balls to ward off moths in her stomach, per the Akron Times-Democrat tale.
Freddy asks about diplomacy and learns a lesson through a playful misstep. The boy claims he used diplomacy by swapping beds to get medicine for himself, sparking a light vanity from the exchange and a prayerful nod to patience. London folks.
A Buckport Maine teacher, frustrated by a resistant pupil in arithmetic, asked what the boy would be if allowed to grow up. The student replied he planned to become a teacher and have his scholars do his figuring for him.
A Detroit Free Press item captures a humorous exchange about meat quality. A butcher insists the meat is half bone, while another asserts the bone is present but the meat is not the bone. The cartoon-like dialogue highlights confusion over labeling and perception of meat content.
In a Cleveland Plain Dealer item a shy girl, Miss Shyleigh, recalls a youth who visited last week wearing gum shoes. She explains she was startled when he crept up and kissed her, saying she hates such surprises.
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