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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Mar 28, 1925
Page
2
OWRD NELYDE BEN3. H Johnson Melvin & Johnson publish every Saturday and are entered at the Denton Maryland post office as second class mail matter.
The era’s fires and a sweeping tornado across Missouri Illinois Indiana and Kentucky devastate buildings and claim lives. Experts blame human error and urge fire safe windproof structures while courts and farmers navigate prohibition era changes and conservation steps unfold.
An irritable critique of lazy employees who misspend time and muddle tasks. It attacks those who boast of shortcomings, scorn the “common class,” and create disorder, blaming others while failing at work. The piece warns such people bring turmoil, inefficiency, disloyalty, and unhappiness, hindering promotion and progress.
In deep ocean tests the water pressure at thousands of fathoms crushes objects. A soda bottle with a wooden stopper was driven through its glass by hydraulic pressure at 2000 fathoms, while a weighted beef sample returned from mid Atlantic as tender as veal after extreme cold and compression.
In old England during the feudal era, poor residents could enter manor woods to fetch fuel with a hook and crook, hauling wood on their backs. Bountary stones marked limits, and the Bodmin Register notes Dynmore Wood was always open to inhabitants to bear away top, crop, hook, crook and bag wood.
The piece notes Homer as the ancient Greek poet of the epic The Mlad, describing the tenth year of the Trojan War. It recounts Achilles quarreling with Agamemnon, Patroclus dying, Hector slain, and Achilles’ rage, ending with Hector’s body returned for funeral rites.
The drudger and long slave hitchers work at waterside sites where ships load and unload coal. Coal that falls overboard is retrieved from river or harbor mud by drudgers who wash and sell it to households at a low price. Drudging is a skilled occupation handed down from father to son.
A Hygeia magazine article by Dr L Hubbard of Washington urges using a steaming hot bath to sharpen thinking. He recommends water as hot as tolerable and a bit hotter, with paper and pencil to capture arising ideas, noting it can be exhausting for some but worthwhile in emergencies.
Sheriff announces a sale under a circuit court writ against E. O. Wright of Wright Lumber. The property is in Choptank, Caroline County, Maryland, at Main and Bowdie streets, described as 170 by 50 feet with access along Main Street. The deed dates to November 1908, Liber T. L. D. No. 72, folio 369. Sale date to be announced.
A Washington Star writer recounts how, unable to afford a ring for years during lean early marriage, she finally receives the engagement ring intended for her daughter. The husband presents the ring with generosity, revealing it as the mother’s long overdue token of affection.
The piers of Waterloo Bridge in London rise and fall with the tide by two to three sixteenths of an inch. The movement extends along the river, prompting questions whether similar vertical motions of St Paul’s Cathedral could be tidal in origin.
A method to produce clearer paper negatives is to mix one part Canadian balsam with five parts turpentine. Rub the back of the print with cotton wool until the paper is fully impregnated for faster printing, per the Springfield Republican.
The piece explains the phrase shell out means pay money and traces it to shell money used as currency in parts of Asia and Africa. It notes shell types and places such as tile coveries and Guinea coast shells, with the Philippines as another region where shells were once used as coins.
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