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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
May 07, 1921
Page
6
The article argues the committee mislabeled “Rest and Recreation,” urging “Rest and Worship.” It details the Feast of Tabernacles rites from Leviticus, including timing, booth-keeping, and symbolic meaning, plus the Sabbath commandment, its rest and worship aspects, obligations across family and society, and New Testament shift to Sunday observance for Christians.
A devotional meditation extols the privilege of God’s children to dwell in blessed hills away from doubt and low-lying lands. It envisions life lifted above mire as the soul communes with Its God, from whom cometh our help.
A fragment quotes Shakespeare noting that treason and murder are bound together as two yoke devils sworn to Esther, reflecting a literary aside on motive and fate. The text presents a restrained quotation rather than a full news item or event.
In Buckinghamshire England near Chalfont St Giles the graveyard of William Penn sits in the yard of the old Jordan hostel where a piece of timber from the Mayflower was presented to two Americans. Samuel H H astern discovered it and Frank Terris of Seattle, for the American Society of Friends, received it from A Cotterell for transport to the United States to join the peace portal dedication in Blaine Washington next October.
A noonday encounter at Sychar between Jesus and the Samaritan woman unfolds a lesson on living water and spiritual hunger. Jesus reveals knowledge of her past, offers eternal life, and prompts her to call others to believe. The narrative contrasts earthly hunger with heavenly nourishment and ends with the woman's transformed zeal.
Miss Gertrude Bell, compiler of the Inner History of Mesopotamia issued by the British government, is hailed as a leading authority on the East. She possesses deep knowledge of Syria, Asia Minor and Arabia, and served with the British secret service during the war, sometimes disappearing for months into the desert.
Popular Mechanics notes several new products from aquatic leather including gloves made from whale intestines and soft kid, thick soles from whale mouth tissue, and large splits from beluga and dolphin skins. These innovations mark leather manufacture as a growing regional industry.
A columnist contrasts American habits with French life praising their approach to living, sociability in eateries, and tolerance in business. It argues Americans should lower housing concerns, embrace neighborly politeness, and balance sugar industry chatter with appreciation of beauty and etiquette in commerce.
The New York Sun notes that the city’s multimillionaires fascinate visitors more than iconic sights. Sightseeing buses travel Broadway and Wall Street, where passengers hope for glimpses of figures such as John D. Rockefeller Jr. or J. Pierpont Morgan, offering a vivid urban portrait of finance and power.
A rebuilt Swedish paper mill at Vargo now runs without coal. Seven electric boilers, each 3000 horsepower, receive 10,000 volt supply directly. Steam generation can be regulated within five per cent with three electrodes per boiler. Full steam pressure reportedly reached in five to ten minutes after energizing, promising significant fuel savings.
A tall thin woman employed to take dictation left a building with a bag of fresh eggs. A young man ogled and saluted her, so she turned and threw an egg at his back. She then walked away unfazed, amid the spectators’ laughter at the incident reported by Tulsa World.
A beaver ranch at Edgerton Canada claims status as possibly the Wests largest fur farm with over 100 beavers being raised for future yearly revenue. The property sits along a creek long home to a beaver colony, now licensed for breeding and selling the increase as soon as multiplication supports trapping.
Avalon residents shrug at material shortages as whale ribs bleaching for twenty years in front of the Avalon Tuna Club become architectural supports. A contractor bought the bones not for a museum but to craft a shelter for visitors using canvas wallboard and flooring.
A Detroit Times excerpt finds a suitor asking a father for permission to marry his daughter. The father inquires if the proposal carries serious business, and the suitor replies he will discuss the serious details after the wedding.
A couple laments the high cost of their flat and the expense of hiring a moving van. They discuss options as they face unavoidable housing and relocation pressures.
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