Public Sale of Farm Property in Caroline County Maryland
Under a 1919 mortgage to Harvey L. Cooper as assigned to Calvert C Merriken and Wilbert L Merriken the farm called Lloyds Regulation Roe's Bottom Range in Caroline County will be sold at public sale in front of the Denton Court House by assignees. The 111 acre tract excludes seven acres of woodland and includes a two story frame dwelling large barn implement shed smokehouse chicken house and other outbuildings. Sale terms: half cash day of sale and balance at ratification or all cash at purchaser option with deferred payment secured by note payable at Denton National Bank. Title papers at purchaser expense. Calvert C Merriken Wilbert L Merriken assignees. L F Covey auctioneer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John W. Funk
Daisy V. Funk
Harvey L. Cooper
Caroline county
Calvert C. Merriken
Wilbert L. Merriken
Court House
Denton
Maryland
Tloyd
Roe
Evan Morgan
Joseph P. Anthony
John Irwin
Thomas Clayton Frame, Jr
John T. Carter
Henry W. Hughes
John T. Carter, Jr
Denton National Bank
Assignee's Sale of Valuable Land in Caroline County Md
Public sale at the Denton court house door to the highest bidder between 1 and 4 pm of the described land in the Third Election District of Caroline County Md. The property includes improvements and is conveyed with cash terms and purchaser paid title papers. Assignee T Pliny Fisher and auctioneer James Temple oversee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Caroline county
Maryland
Clement Noble
J. W. Kerr
Noble
Hough tract
W. H. Irwin
Hough
Irwin
Stevens
H. C. Hobbs
Catholic Church farm
Catholic Church
Watts’s Creek
T. PLINY FISHER
James Temple
Isabel Returns to Earth in a Desire for More
A discontented wife, Isabel Hopkins, nags her husband Homer over money and status. After receiving a $20,000 windfall from a relative, she renovates the Norris place, buys a car, hosts lavishly, and mortgages the home to keep up with neighbor Stella Tarbox. As the Tarboxes move on, debt mounts, a foreclosure follows, and Isabel, rehabilitated by a fairy tale, becomes more patient and content.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
SABEL HOPKINS
Homer
Dick Tarbox
Isabel
Stella Tarbox
Fromer
Isomer
Stella Turbox
Norris
Tsabet
Hower
Summitville
St. Isabel
Slomer
Uttle
Meadow street
Omer
Ureir
Norris house
Ilourer
Odd Accident Blamed on Eating of Onion
A Sydney man Albert Coxon joined a lunch with a raw onion before a car ride. A bad road jolt caused a lung to burst, air inflated the chest, heart displaced, and a doctor’s diagnosis blamed indigestion and a violent hiccup after eating the onion. Six weeks of recovery followed as air gradually absorbed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sydney
New South Wales
Albert Coxon
Coxon
Coxen
sil
Prominent Men From Trades Linked to Famous Writers
A political meeting in England sparked a reporter to publish a list tracing famed authors to trades of their fathers. Names include Euripides son of a frustrer, Vergil son of a brickmaker, Shakespeare son of a butcher and swool stapler, and Rousseau son of a watch maker, among others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
England
Nils aspersson
ags
Euripides
Vergil
Boccaccio
Bunyan
Luther
Co Innibus
Shakespeare
Ben Jonson
mmnson
Cowley
Milton
Fletcher
Posie
Collins
Anatole France
sons of budsellers
The Little Starter romance on Roy and Ella in 1924
Roy, a bus driver, woos Ella Charters a service station clerk with a plan to fund a home. A cyclone hits the city revealing a robbery and a tense chase. Roy captures two suspects and recovers stolen bonds, while Ella’s late shifts and loyalty win him a starter nest egg.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
OY SNYDER
Fila Charters
Roy
Ella
Donegan
Tay
Noy
Donovan
kid
Uncertain Burial Place of Button Gwinnett
A quoted note from Pathfinder Magazine cites Charles Francis Jenkins that Gwinnett’s grave location is unknown. It speculates he may lie in Colonial Park Savannah, with a gravestone once placed by his executor, reportedly used later as barn top, and records of a monument erected in Augusta in 1848 seeking his remains near Hall and Walton.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Button Gwinnett
Charles Francis Jenkins
Philadelphia
Gwinnett
James Foley
Colonial cemetery
Colonial park
Savannah
Augusta
Lyman Hall
George Walton
Richard P. Swarthmore
Pathfinder Magazine
Scotland Yard Seeks Cars on Iron Nerve Test
From George Dinnot's Story of Scotland Yard comes a test for the detective chauffeur. A candidate travels a remote lane with an official beside him as a shot sounds and he learns his arm is wounded yet must press on. Hay bales appear, orders arrive instantly, and wireless links with headquarters remain in constant contact. The spy’s sharp eye contrasts with the Yard car’s iron nerve.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Diinot
Scotland Yard
Sneezing Superstitions Through History
Mentor Magazine notes sneezing has long carried diverse meanings from good omens to warnings of danger. Ancient Greeks Romans and Egyptians linked sneezes to omens, while Pope Gregory the Great near the sixth century began the custom of saying God bless you.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Egypt
Gregory the Great
Italy
Mentor Magazine
Resurrection of Sow and Her Piglets Mystery
An Arkansas reader recalls a hog killing attempt where a large sow, stunned and tied, fell when the support broke. The hog escaped, then returned the next day with 15 piglets after crossing the river, a curious incident shared by E. Linn of Melbourne, as printed in Pathfinder Magazine.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E. Linn
Melbourne
Ark
Pathfinder Magazine
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J.L. Everngam&Son
Denton, Maryland
Eclipse
Munsingwear Union Suits
Bradley
Douglas
Raynsters
Van Heusen
J. L. Everngam & Son
Victrolas
M.K. NEWNAM’S
Bed Springs
M. K. NEWNAM
Journal
Market street
Denton , Maryland
W. W. ELEY
Centreville
Ingleside
Virginia
J. J. EVERNGAM
Denton, Md
L. F. COVEY
Walter P. Austin
Hlarvey L. Cooper
Mary E. Brown
James H. Nichols
Alice H. Brown
Wilson
W. WEST
Elleniate
Del
D. J. Walsh
Joe Belt
Glacier National park reservation
Joe
Glacier park
agency trading post
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