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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
May 01, 1915
Page
2
A Denton civic pledge urges residents to support the Civic League in beautifying yards and landscapes and protecting birds. It champions cleanliness, tidy streets, and plant growth as part of making the city attractive.
Architect William H Brincklee discusses in Craftsman the Eastern Shore's flat fertile Chesapeake coast from Havre de Grace to Tangier Island. He praises pastoral fronts, tidal wetlands, and colonial farm life noting gentler climate and historic settlement by Catholics, Quakers, and Church of England folk.
The text surveys early Maryland farm homes along Chesapeake shores, noting simple, balanced cottages with a later eighteenth century gambrel roof. It credits American development to Puritans, Dutch, Swedes, and Lord Baltimore’s settlers, and cautions amateurs against poorly designed gambrel roofs as ruinous.
County Farm Demonstrator E P Walls and Prof S B Shaw will lead four spraying demonstrations to combat codling moths. Sessions will be scheduled after apple blossoms fall, with one at the almshouse farm near Trappe and others to cover at least one site per citizen. Records will track fruit quality and dollar value of sprayed trees. The aim is to aid both small home orchards and commercial growers, with strong attendee turnout urged.
An authority urges proper plowing of cover crops to maintain humus and soil fertility. Those with no cover crop this year risk poor soil next year, especially gardeners and orchard owners. The writer recounts how turning down rye each spring prevents hard soil after heavy rain and gradually improves soil quality over six years.
Within a month every danger point and cross road on the State highways will be posted with direction and caution signs of the Automobile Club of Maryland. The black signs with yellow arrows will bear city names or danger and are mounted on iron posts designed to resist uprooting. A short iron pipe with a flange sits in a crowbar hole in the earth, forming a stemmed support for a seven foot pipe and adjustable sign.
May zoth is the transfer date chosen by the State Lunacy Commission to move patients from Springfield and Spring Grove to the Eastern Shore State Hospital at Cambridge. More than 200 patients will be moved, with a special train from Springfield to Baltimore and city iceboats loaned to transport to Cambridge. The plan relieves pressure at Springfield and Spring Grove, enabling transfer of Bay view city patients.
The Philadelphia Record touts its reach within a hundred miles of Philadelphia and across four states. It promises accurate fair and wholesome news with rich features, magazine sections, and comics. The paper urges homes in its territory to subscribe for a fuller local and world view.
Official notice lists Ringling Brothers circus dates in Baltimore on May 2 and 13 with no performances on those days. The show features Solomon and the Queen of Sheba spectacle, 256 cast, 300 dancers, 735 horses, and a vast train of scenery and costumes, plus 1,004 wild animals and 41 elephants in the menagerie.
The Talbot Produce Exchange stockholders, disheartened by the first year’s results, vow to push ahead to beat farmer apathy. Revenue inspectors target buttermakers misusing salt or moisture under the pure food law, making both maker and dealer subject to fines. J Frank Turner sold a 120 acre farm in Chapel district Talbot from August Meier to Hugh McNeal for 5000 dollars, with possession January 1.
The Baltimore Sun reported a Maryland Historical Society lecture by Dr. Parry Covington of Princeton University stating that the first European landfall between Carolina and New York occurred on Maryland’s Eastern Shore, naming Arcadia and dated 1524, earlier than the Calvert colonists in Ark and Dove.
A Baltimore News correspondent questions the value of house cats amid Audubon Society pressure to control strays. He argues cats historically caught mice but fears current generations lack such ability, suggesting traps are a more reliable solution than pet protection.
Federalsburg held its annual town election on Monday centering on a 10 percent tax rise and new streets on Elphlind town. A tax increase was struck down in part while a new commissioner favoring opening Philghbardtown’s details won, with commissioners elected: Theory B P Stowell, F L Bidede Mesen get, Joseph P L Patchett, J Walter Nahte, H Lavey T Long.
A card from Charles E. Carroll appeals to Democratic voters in Coaroline County Denton Maryland to support his bid for the sheriff nomination. He states he has never held public office before and pledges full time and faithful service if chosen. April 8 1915.
A brief 1915 plea from Geo E Jopp seeking support from friends for the Democratic nomination for County Commissioner in Caroline County. He notes lifelong Democrat affiliation and asks for assistance in the upcoming primaries. Ad attached date April 3, 1915.
Walter T. George of Federalsburg Maryland announces his candidacy for the Democratic nomination for sheriff. He asks Democratic friends and acquaintances to aid his efforts after encouragement from many earnest Democrats.
A deed of trust authorizes a public sale in Hickman Maryland to satisfy creditors of Clarence F E Abbott. The trustee will conduct the sale under the power contained in the trust agreement.
A distraint sale lists items including bay horses Ned and Kimbel Nell, a gray Bill, a sorrel mare Nell, wagons, carriages, an Overland Model 1910 auto, tools, furniture, bedding, and household goods. Cash under ten dollars. over ten dollars twenty four months credit with note and security at purchaser’s option. payment before removal.
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