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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
May 01, 1943
Page
3
A devotional meditation uses Jesus dining by a glowing fire with Peter after a Galilee breakfast to urge wholehearted devotion. It emphasizes three calls: face responsibility, feed Christ’s flock, and follow Him to the end, warning against jealousy and judging others.
A compact clue set lists many terse terms from moccasin to Indo-Chinese language across 2 rows. It presents short definitions for items such as man made words and common nouns, plus color and body parts, suggesting a themed crossword with various part definitions including animal, object, and linguistic terms. The grid likely fills with both simple and obscure entries.
Practical advice on furniture value escape from fashion to utility, portioning meals with per person servings, travel checklists, thrift hacks for cleaning and sewing, keeping a garden book, and simple kitchen tricks. Includes egg yolk freshness, egg white whipping, duck down removal, cantaloupe serving, lighting, and a Succotash recipe note.
French dressing and mayonnaise are bases for most dressings with additions like catsup or mustard and flavorings. Mirrors decorate homes to reflect light and enlarge rooms. To prevent fire hazards, portable cords must be limited to six feet, be metal-tubed if longer, and used with waterproof coverings in damp places. inspect and replace damaged cords.
Maryland dairy and livestock interests can avert high protein feed shortages by growing soybeans. University of Maryland agronomy expert John Magruder says soybeans yield well on fertile drained soils, with about 20 bushels per acre expected. One half acre per cow should supply the 600 pounds of protein supplement needed, assuming normal seasonal conditions and good cultural practices.
Mr Magruder notes that idle or marginal land including 142 unplanted corn fields and unproductive timothy sods could be used for soybean production. Advice stresses seed quality and on hand stock, with yellow varieties favored for possible oil use. Lead Maryland yellow beans include Manehu Illini Scioto Dunfield Harbinsen Seneca Haberlandt and Wilson. Seed needs range 5–6 peeks per acre for drift sowing and 35–45 pounds for 36 inch rows.
Sunday entry notes a Sunday school lesson on sin and committal acts with Jake misjudging. Monday passage contrasts Blisters and Jake, and mentions a man from the big city attending school and becoming president of a society of stammerers in the big city.
A fragmentary diary recounts jokes about a police shooting, a tall versus short joke, a cowboy pa and a rare steak at a restaurant, a pitcher’s ketcher and a blurred license question, and a woods outing with Jane ending in unclear romantic hints. Names and places are scarce, leaving a patchy, quizzical snapshot of youth chatter and small incidents.
A public sale of valuable personal property will be held at the Hardcastle Farm 2 miles south of Harmony starting at 10 a.m. Rain or shine. Items include livestock, implements, household goods, farm machinery, tools, a Gray horse, a bay mare, a cow, pigs, a Chevrolet truck, a Ford tractor, several plows and cultivators, a mowing machine, wagons, rope and harness, and various household furnishings. Also offered are half interests in 18 acres of wheat and 7 acres of rye.
Notice to creditors that the subscriber in Caroline County has obtained letters of administration from the Orphans' Court for Caroline County Maryland on the personal estate of the deceased.
Public sale of personal property at the late home of Robinson C Murphy on State Road from Preston to Harmony with items including farm implements livestock harnesses tools furniture and household goods. Sale begins 10 o'clock a m cash terms no removal until settled and both estates of Murphy listed with auctioneer and clerk.
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