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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Mar 29, 1913
Page
6
Page six of the Penton Journal notes Melvin and Johnson publishers. The item records names and roles on the publication staff with no events or dates.
Eskimo hunters use toggle joints on spear points to prevent breakage during seal and walrus hunts. Drag lines and floats, carved from ivory and skin, keep the catch afloat and traceable while the animal tires or drowns. The setup includes a long thong, a kite-like drag, and a float attached to the spear shaft to prevent loss at sea.
A cleric in the Yorkshire dales recalls a late night encounter with a dead brother that saved a man’s life years later. A prisoner confesses that in a bad year he lay in wait behind rocks to ambush the minister, but the figure’s appearance kept him from striking. The story, once in Macmillan’s Magazine, is recounted by Lady Verney.
A historical London charity ran a grim baby post charging by distance to deliver infants to the founding hospital in Guildford Street. Carriers transported babies in panniers or straw wagons, with mortality over 70 percent as only 440 of 1200 or more were apprenticed out before Parliament abolished the practice.
The article traces button origins to the Normans based on etymology from bout and boater, noting early garments had straps and knots. It suggests buttons were push pieces like bell battons and spread rapidly after introduction, with historical musings on dress and a brief joke about doctors.
United States Department of Agriculture describes kudzu as a large leafed fast growing leguminous vine from Japan. It suits warm summers across the United States and can improve poor land by adding nitrogen while providing forage or green food. It is best used for pasture with two alternating pastures and browning over arbors for a tropical effect in Japan’ s rough lands. A Florida grower calls it the best plant to tide farmers and stock raisers over hot dry summers after years of experience.
A church lesson summary outlines the quarter’s faith themes. It highlights God as creator and provider, human trust and disobedience, Abel Noah Abraham and Sarah as faith examples, and Easter’s central mercy. It urges written student stories on Creation, the First Sin, Cain and Abel, Noah’s Flood, Lot, and the First Easter to reinforce lessons.
A Farmersite note argues every farmer should designate an office space for accounts, farm records, and valuable papers. It suggests the workspace can be in a corner of the living room a small room in the granary or a section of the milk house stressing that more system is needed on most farms.
A Kansas Agricultural College agronomy chief, W M Jardine, says scales are vital on modern farms. They help farmers know profits by weighing outputs sold from the farm more accurately than mowers, binders, or manure spreaders.
A farm note advises selling two of the boarder cows and replacing them with one that yields profit. It also recommends selling the old gelding and replacing him with a brood mare expected to raise a colt worth one-half to one third of her purchase price at weaning.
A compact collage of farming advice urges using low wide tired steel wheels for hay and pasture work, notes draft horses as valuable assets, and emphasizes sunlight and soil building through loam and fertility. It mentions maintaining draft mares and young horses for sale, and ends with a note on a clever door latch design to keep stables secure.
A fragmented old notice discusses a barn door latch requiring two motions to open, plus a method to lift the bar from the outside with an Intel string and a kneb on slot. It also gives a health hint for farmers to kneel on carpet to prune borers from apple trees and avoid damp ground, mentioning Mary and rheumatism.
Extensive sale offers stock of standard bred stallions and mares led by Andrew M sire line. Includes Andy Mack Galloway Francis and many brood mares with foals due April to Andrew M. Also lists fillies geldings and two-year-olds with detailed pedigrees and race records. Terms: cash under $10, credit above with security. No removals before terms met.
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