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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
May 05, 1934
Page
2
The article urges residents to tidy yards as warm weather returns. It warns that clutter and rubbish can breed germs and typhoid, especially in back yards. It advises scattering lime and whitewashing to improve appearance and public health, urging monthly cleanup.
The Delaware State Highway Department endorses a two to three week scenic drive through the fruit belt. Start Route 13 from the north to Dover then Milford to Rehoboth Beach and Lewes, with a side trip to historic Lewes and a surf fishing stretch along Silver Lake. The route passes Bethany Beach near the National Guard camp and continues to Georgetown, Bridgeville, Greenwood, Harrington, and Denton, where multiple divergence options await. The trip easily fits into a day.
An editorial in Rotarian Magazine argues wars are shaped in peacetime by national policies. It imagines 1900 choices avoiding 1914 18 catastrophe and proposes generous peace dividends, but notes 1934 nations persist toward conflict amid lingering wartime costs.
Paper correspondents describe daily dispatches toward the next war, warned it could bankrupt civilization. It can be avoided if nations learn to live and let live by relinquishing some rights. Men of goodwill hope governments will weigh and choose this path.
Washington observers warn of leadership turmoil as Speaker Rainey and Burns of Tennessee face removal to admin posts. President Roosevelt defends them while Senate debates drag on Senate leadership strains, tariff fights, and labor politics.
Government officials express disappointment with liquor tax receipts while beer taxes remain fairly remunerative. The newly opened liquor stores rush, hotel trade rises, and liquor advertising is extensive. Observers warn of tax evasion and political coverups as investigations call for, amid high overall liquor and gasoline taxes.
President Roosevelt faces a choice between advisors seeking work relief and others pressing reform. The New Deal centered on hiring the unemployed, while a reform faction views constitutional limits as essential. Critics claim experimental plans threaten industry and credit channels after last year’s Securities Act.
The piece argues that leaders seek to regulate business through a central bureaucracy and new laws like the Wagner Labor Disputes bill and unemployment insurance taxes. It warns of a broader shift to government funding private enterprise while urging Congress to balance higher wages with reasonable profits.
The Washington report notes the White House requests authority to divert part of the large PWA funds to an immediate warship building program amid rising tensions with Japan. The piece highlights Roosevelt administrations’ sensitivity to Japanese sentiment influencing funding decisions.
The piece questions who started the new naval race, the risks of huge budgets, and whether advancing ships is wise as tensions in the Pacific rise. It recalls the 1921 22 Washington Conference outcomes and the Vinson Bill backing naval expansion, asking if ongoing arms buildup undermines China Japan relations and whether friendliness could ease global tensions while the United States seeks recovery.
May marks Children's Month with May baskets hung on doors and old England parades. It spotlights Child Health Day and Goodwill Day, echoing the Welsh pledge for peace and goodwill to children worldwide. The message inspires renewal of humanity's hopeful spirit as spring awakens life.
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A Denton area retrospective notes deaths including Mr. Bert Lord near Williamsburg from a horse kick. Local projects include a new flour mill in Denton for Keefer and others, roadster sale, farm sale, and town commissions renewed. Debates, operations, society visits and a birthday party mark community life across Denton Greensboro Centreville and Easton with multiple named locals and institutions.
Dr J H M Knox Jr urges use of Mothers Day to promote safer motherhood. He cites need for regular medical supervision before during and after birth and notes clinics for health supervision are expanding across nine Maryland counties including Harford Cecil Allegany Calvert Anne Arundel Frederick Kent Montgomery and Howard with aim to serve all women in the state.
An inspirational quotation from R. W. MacKenna emphasizes that faith should foster love for fellow humans and confidence in humanity’s future.
George O'Brien plays Michael Wyatt in Frontier Marshal at Ridgely Theatre with Irene Bentley as Mary Reid and Lew Seiler directing. Dorothy Dell, known for Wharf Angel, appears in Ridgely’s show next Thu Fri Sat after Keith’s Baltimore run. A sulphur crested cockatoo disrupted a Barbary Coast scene as Dell crooned.
Charles I Boyle of Centreville delivered 400 pounds of wool to the Maryland Farm Bureau Wool Pool on April 27. This marks the first of about 100,000 pounds expected soon as farmers use cooperative selling to boost prices. The pool, part of the National Wool Marketing Association funded by Farm Credit, aims to expand pooled sales and profits projected for the year.
The piece reflects on spiritual ideas from divine Mind being accepted and practiced in daily life. It asserts such ideas bless the individual and others, aligning with Christian Science Monitor’s devotional tone. The brief emphasizes practical application over theory.
Henry Ford states a low mood is a mental state and declares the era of changing one’s state of mind as over for all who have altered it. The remark frames mindset as a fixed condition ending ongoing personal shifts.
A collection of aphorisms and reflections from various authors praising love eternity and obedience. Notable lines touch on time memory and purpose with attributions to Madam de Stael anon George MacDonald Cowper and L M Childs. The excerpt presents timeless thoughts rather than a narrative.
Ross Farquar records a boyish diary with random events from Friday to Thursday. Daily entries mention school avoidance, fishing plans, a wedding debt, Scout snake tests, a failed snake hunt, a store robbery investigation, a car ticket over a license tag, a city theater show misread as a holiday death drama, and a long time night guard quitting the Flower mill.
A collage of farm, home and business notices. M K Newnam promotes Quick-Meal ranges and Frigidaire appliances alongside an outboard motor boat regatta notice for Caroline Post American Legion at Denton on May 27. Burrsville and Ridgely vendors list cows mules planters and plants with The Journal office selling stationery and invitations.
The Farm Credit Administration informs W. H. Evans and the Caroline County Emergency Crop Loan Committee that May 15 is the final date to receive crop loans. More farmers than last year have used the program, with loans from J. Spencer Lapham, T. C. Horsey, J. R. Chaffinch, and H. H. Nuttle. Loans, secured by crop lids, cover seed and fertilizer purchases, ranging from 10 to 250 dollars and often paid within seven to twenty days in 1934.
Mr Fred Fountain and son Thurman visited Mrs Fountain in Temple University Philadelphia where she underwent an operation last Tuesday and is recovering well. The group extends wishes for a speedy complete recovery. Mr and Mrs Charles Veat New Haven Conn returned home after a week with J W Johnson family. Mr and Mrs L H Thomas Hobbs visited Mrs Ella Peters Sunday at John Adams home. Mr and Mrs Clarence Parker and Miss Crella Johnson were Wilmington shoppers last Thursday. Mrs Charles Johnsons mother spent part of last week here.
The Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Combined Circus schedules a May 14 and 15 Baltimore engagement presenting the Durbar of Delhi and a grand 1934 program. The show features Otari Troupe in mid air, Mile Gillette, Terence-Dolores Merkels Willos Spurgeat, Con Colleano, Wallenda Troupe and 150 internationally famous clowns among 800 performers. The rail convoy carries over 1600 people, 50 elephants, 1009 animals, and 700 horses.
Dentonia Theater unveils a three day run featuring MGM’s Riptide with Norma Shearer and Robert Montgomery on May 4-5, plus RKO’s Long Lost Father with John Barrymore and Helen Chandler and Laurel and Hardy in Me and My Pal on May 7-8. Warner Bros Wonder Bar screens May 9-11 with Jolson, Francis, Del Rio and an Army of chorus girls, followed by Wheeler and Woolsey next week.
Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Taylor and daughter Anne of Reading PA visited Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Edwards. Misses Dorothy Cross and Beverly Nashold from Peabody Institute Baltimore stayed with their parents. Mrs. Mary Maloney and son Harry of Wilmington visited Mr. and Mrs. J Harvey Coursey. N K Swanwick returned home from Emergency Hospital. Mrs Mildred Cole Lydia Thorpe Woodrow Todd and Mrs Paul Dill spent Saturday in Wilmington. Mrs John Brown visited Philadelphia. Miss Ellen Draper near town visited Ridgely with Miss Luella Stufft. Ralph Thornton spent Saturday with Mr and Mrs Arthur Wheatman at Denton. Mrs J A Billings Hobbs was guest of Mrs Annie Hopkins Sunday.
The Caroline County Health Department announces Miss Mattie M. Smith as Public Health Nurse, filling the vacancy after Mrs. Anne N. Wineland resignation. The note covers National Negro Health Week observances, school and home cleanups, milk plant inspections, privy construction, and nurse duties including home visits and health screenings in Preston and surrounding areas.
Hickman Baseball Club will open the season on Sunday May 6 at Hickman with Cordova visiting at 2 o clock. The regular squad plus bench additions, featuring Tucker Cannon Davis Baker and Barber on the pitching staff, start the campaign while local updates note health improvements and social visits among Hickman residents.
A brief line from the Christian Science Monitor reflecting on contentment and faith. It presents a spiritual view that happiness stems from finding God, without additional context or details.
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