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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
May 07, 1892
Page
1
IN TED, a few good salesmen are invited to take orders for a full line of fruit and ornamental trees, star fruits, roses and shrubs. No experience required, references required, good pay. Address ht. P. Preeman and Co, Rochester, N.Y.
The advertisement extols a Baltimore based department store expansion at 6 and 8 S. Charles St and 6 and 7 W. Baltimore St forming an L shape. It touts progressive business methods, large warehouse, and a vast selection in mens wear including spring overcoats suits hats and boys wear with prices noted for department offerings and tailor services.
Fragmentary OCR text references yardage and monetary figures without clear context or identifiable names. No decisionable events, entities, or actions are readable to summarize into a coherent news item.
Fragment from Putnam in Good Housekeeping evokes memory and sleep with lilting natural imagery. Repeated bees, summer gardens, and old sweetness weave a dreamlike cadence around the speaker seeking restful slumber. The piece lightly recalls nature and past days without narrative action.
A Upscale Morristown visit becomes a nightmare as a mother fearfully believes her child’s safety hinges on a bathroom window. The tale follows frantic telegrams and hurried dispatches after a four year nurse and faithful servants are invoked. The incident unfolds with a distraught mother and anxious husband racing to confirm the fate of their child.
Quote attributed to Professor David Starr Jordan highlights Louis Agassiz as a devoted educator who framed science as the orderly organization of knowledge. He urged direct contact with real phenomena over rote memorization to sharpen observation and judgment for practical usefulness.
Rev. J. N. Seeley asks in Congregationalist whether humans drift toward degradation without guidance, noting wolves and humans share traits while humans may shed essential character. He contrasts natural degeneration with development and cautions about self-reliance.
Rufus A Brainard recalls a boyhood duck shoot at Frog Morter shore with his uncle using a flintlock. Thousands of canvasback ducks crowded the shore. a massed volley killed numerous birds, yielding forty three ducks. Crippled birds were carried away by survivors.
A short anecdote from eastern Utah on the Bear River recalls a prospector who rode 300 miles to Salt Lake with a painful tooth. After striking a crowd, a string wrench pulled the tooth out in minutes. he confessed he lacked a string at the start.
A lively excerpt recalls Fayal winters where young men gauged the start of summer by window peeks at others in black or white attire. They carried outfits to switch if black or white dominated, and the comic scene centered on avoiding singular fashion among peers. Colonel Sigginson in Harper's Bazaar is cited.
Reader letter from the New York Tribune recounts a street exchange where a messenger boy asks a woman for a quarter after delivering a letter. He claims politeness and respect, noting he kept his cap off to avoid drawing attention and to prevent people in the house from seeing his number. The piece captures a quirky exchange and the humor of small social pretenses.
Mrs Gadabout questions Mrs Youngwife about her baby. Mrs Residytongue defends giving the grandmother the benefit of the doubt, noting uncertainty about likeness to father or mother. The exchange appears in the Westfield Leader.
Sight and smell experiments show a cat cannot distinguish a hand with empty fingers from one holding harmless objects. A bull reportedly cannot differentiate a red pocket handkerchief from the scent of blood, as cited by the London Globe.
The St Louis Republic notes Bagdad Arizona as one of the hottest regions in the United States with temperatures reported up to 110 in the shade for days and a depot area at midnight recording 128 on the cool side. The ticket agent confirms extreme heat conditions along the Southern Pacific railroad line.
The piece argues that a preacher must be a "money man" and a true noble man with a deep call, intellect, and ability to reach minds through knowledge. It emphasizes divine selection, rational cultivation, and the preacher’s duty to remove doubts and present gospel truths via all paths of knowledge. The second excerpt recounts a slave era anecdote about a boy who learns to use his head, contrasting work with thought and noting a master’s misapplication of punishment.
The article outlines general New Testament rules for Christian conduct focused on love for God and neighbor. It cautions believers to avoid actions doubtful in faith, abstain from appearances of evil, and act in all things with Christlike blessing. It emphasizes reliance on God for sufficiency in living righteously.
Theodor L. Cuyler argues ministers must preach with Holy Spirit fire and personal zeal. A moderate intellect can still move souls if the preacher is heated with divine passion and fully invested in his message. The piece urges ministers to keep blood heat in sermons to win souls for Christ.
The text urges men to train their bodies for strength and health to resist temptation and perform God’s work with power. It calls for hardiness, unity, and steadfast faith, likening them to the master who faced duties strengthened by prior duties. It emphasizes readiness for every duty through disciplined perseverance.
A brief reflective line from Dr Spring describes relief from sorrow as fleeting as a bird seeking rest on waves, warning that worldly distractions offer scant solace for a troubled child.
Akas Samael Slater reflects on conscience as either humanity’s best ally or its worst foe. He argues that even with the world arrayed against a person, a faithful conscience can sustain and empower him to endure hardships.
A letter from F Forster in the New York Sun criticizes public school instruction on pronunciation. He argues students mispronounce common words like dog, new, doll, neighs, and fast and then retain dated speech patterns into adulthood, questioning the value of such teaching.
Mackney Cabs in London notes the rapid rise of hackney carriages. From twenty street ranks at Charles's reign start to increased hiring by jobmasters, prompting a royal proclamation to curb excess carriages and highway damage. Only hires beyond three miles or by royal service requires sufficient horses. Judges traveled on horseback to Westminster in all weather.
In a comic dialogue a boy denies guilt while the teacher accuses him, the boy claims his mother wrote the excuse, and the mother is described amid chaotic family duties including a sister, a brother with injuries, and sewing on her lap as she writes with her toes. The piece closes with the teacher’s regret and a punchline about marriage plans.
The piece notes rubber shoes and archies keep feet dry and warm in wet and snowy weather. It argues chest protectors and similar garments that only cover parts of the body with flannel are undesirable as they leave covered areas highly susceptible to cold.
The five youngest sovereigns are William II of Germany aged 32, Carlos I of Portugal aged 28, Alexander I of Serbia aged 15, Wilhelmina of Holland aged 11, and Alfonso XIII of Spain aged 5. The exchange notes these ages among Europe’s rulers.
Eyes can become inflamed from lamp heat and relief is found by shading with a scrap of green paper, such as handbills are printed on. This note from Tall's Journal of Wealth offers a simple home remedy for eye irritation caused by flame glare.
The text asserts that a horse weighing about 1000 pounds equals five men in strength and, moving a 25 foot diameter track at three feet per second, could power a machine equal to A horses. It notes limits on horizontal lift, claiming an absolute maximum of zero pounds and a practical momentary limit near that, with continued effort about half.
A Boston story about a college bred youth who, after graduation, struggles to find work. His practical sister guides him to lower the emphasis on his degree and adjust his approach. He follows the advice, secures a position, and later advances, illustrating the value of practical presentation over pedigree.
The passage cites Gentleman's Magazine noting hardiness from animal diets. It describes Pampas Indians as horsemen living naked, nomadic under caciques, migrating with good pasture, subsisting entirely on mare flesh with no bread fruit or vegetables.
The article notes electricity dominates wartime ship operations with the commanding officer controlling all devices from the conning tower. A new application could blow smoke away from sailors’ eyes, with potential patents to vent smoke toward enemies.
A New Jersey Sweet Apple with a large firm fruit and pale yellow green skin. The variety is mainly grown in Monmouth County and shipped to the New York market. The fruit tastes best when eaten unhusked and rinsed in lukewarm water.
A Philadelphia Press note claims American girls educated abroad fail to honor the U S and its institutions. It argues foreign pageantry biases them toward monarchic splendor, ridiculed American customs, and inadequate teaching of American history and geography.
Agricultural brief notes discuss tools lasting with proper care and warn irregular feeding creating uneven wood fiber. Mentions potatoes and varieties Rural New Yorker No 1 and Thorburn receiving commendation.
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