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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
May 03, 1913
Page
6
Professor Van Buest recounts a secret of longevity and a dangerous antitoxin that preserves youth. Reinhard presses for proof while the aged scientist explains how Pasteur Jenner and a century of ideas led to a life extending serum. A pivotal tale of science, ethics, and a dangerous offer.
In this tale of Wilhelmine Welsburd and her husband Max Menzel, a scientist granted her perpetual youth and later attempted to reverse it. As years passed the husband aged while she remained young, causing jealousy and estrangement. A final quarrel after a ball led to their separation and his death, and the antitoxin lost its power, leaving her youthful appearance faded and life unreconciled. The story closes with a reflection on fate and two lovers separated by time.
A recalled prewar episode describes the old battleship Texas sinking at the Brooklyn navy yard due to broken sea cock yokes during repairs and being raised soon after. Captain Jock Phillips sent eels found aboard to fellow officer Fighting Bob Evans, who replied the eels were fine and to sink her again.
Deputy Sheriff Allen Hart and assistants patrol Hood County highways to curb speeders exceeding 25 miles per hour. They use a copper wire setup with a buzzer and stopwatch to time vehicles passing from either end, triggering the clock when the buzzer sounds.
A Russian count and his young wife were deported in 1887 to Saghallen Island north of Japan for political offences. The count died en route, and the countess, after bearing a daughter who died soon after, was cared for by prisoners who became her godfathers. She grew up, studied in Vladivostok, then married the son of a Vladivostok businessman who sent a £1000 donation to the former prisoners.
A coffin tram car is introduced to ease long funeral processions to Vincennes cemetery. Paris constructs a four compartment vehicle with space for 24 family seats and a slide-in coffin aperture, driving to the cemetery gates three miles away. A follow-on carriage carries other mourners and clergy.
The London Chronicle recounts Clephan Palmer’s tale of a man down on luck who dreads life’s struggles. He turns on a gas tap in a closed room, but the gas runs out just as he reaches the threshold of heaven, and there is no penny to put in the slot.
The Greeks of Pergamae prepared parchment from goat or sheep skins. They cleaned the skins, removed fat, cut them evenly, dyed or whitened, and smoothed with pumice stone. The material was called pergamenum from Its origin, becoming parchment in English.
A reflection attributed to George Macdonald on human comfort. It argues that focusing on helping others brings true ease, while overthinking one's own needs hinders genuine comfort. The idea stresses service over self interest for personal well being.
Professor Dyche of the state game war den warns that the tomcat is the most deadly enemy birds face. He notes a she-cat catches three birds to a tomcat's one, while the tomcat has enough sinus to answer for without being charged fairly, per the Sedan Times-Star.
Mortgage from Lemuel G Taylor and Phoebe E Taylor to Harvey L Cooper dated June 26 1912 recorded in Caroline County is assigned and will be sold at public sale at the Denton Maryland Court House door between 2 and 4 pm. The property lies in the Fifth Election District of Caroline County on the Fererals burg Bethel road and contains described real estate as stated in the mortgage documents.
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