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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Mar 28, 1925
Page
3
A humorous sketch recounts quirky naming tales from a colored community. The narrator cites a child named Exey, born Eczema, and explains a dog named Rover derived from Mo over as a joke about the canine’s muddy sores. Copyright by the Central Press Association.
A Nation’s Business piece argues tin plate and tin cans drive U S food export leadership. It cites why U S producers dominate canned goods from kerosene cans to California fruits and Hawaiian pineapple, stressing raw fruits, openness to canned foods, and efficiency of modern packaging.
London Answers reports scientist Charles Henry predicts water as a revolutionary energy source. He explains water splits into hydrogen and oxygen releasing power, needing a catalyst to separate without energy loss, which could render steam and electricity obsolete for motive power.
In Argyllshire a cottage on a broad riverbank cleans fish and other refuse. Eels, drawn by the odor and sound of the washing area, come from midstream to feed, learning to associate clattering pots with food. Visitors are entertained by calling up the eels by making noise.
The Kent coast town Folkestone hosts Roman traces from early settlement times. Historians cite a proposed reconstruction of the ancient village. Saxon era notes mention Folcanstane as a royal manor granted to Nigel de Man deville. The area later joined the Cinque Port of Dover and in Elizabethan days remained a 120-house fishing hamlet. A thirteenth century church stands on the Saxon convent site of St Eanswyth. Behind lies the bail or ballium with Saxon castle ruins of King Eadbald.
A devotional meditation on John 3 1 centering the world’s failure to know Jesus. It contrasts the world’s disinterest with the believer’s awakening, noting that true knowing comes from Christ’s coming from above. The piece emphasizes separation from worldly values and the Christian’s longing for heaven.
A religious reflection notes that the Lord said My spirit shall not always strive with man. Sin quenches the Holy Spirit and builds a barrier that separates the divine and human beings.
The largest clock in the world sits on a Jersey City factory roof. Its face spans 50 feet in diameter and the minute hand reaches 27 feet in length, weighing a ton.
Quote from Bancroft warns that straight paths do not respect persons and will cheat foreigners foes and even God if possible, highlighting universal risk of deceit.
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