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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
May 09, 1936
Page
4
The Denton Journal dated Saturday May 9, 1936 published by Melvin Johnson Inc. presents the day's news in compact form. Details reflect a mid 1930s local paper style with regional notices, brief reports, and community items typical of a county newspaper issue.
Fossils of Coryphodon, a heavy bodied ancestor with elephant like feet and bear like looks, are on display at the Smithsonian in Washington. Found in Wyoming's Big Horn Basin, its foot bones reveal a gradual shift toward an elephant like gait. Once dominant, it faced extinction as horses evolved and the world changed.
The Montreal Herald notes over 100000 miles of chewing gum sold annually, mainly in the United States. It explains sapote tree sap, or chicle, is tapped like rubber, collected in jars, boiled, kneaded, and dried into leaves before export to gum factories, where it is mixed with sugar and flavors in copper vats.
On June 4, 1878 Great Britain took over the administration of Cyprus by treaty with the sultan of Turkey. The Turks remained nominal sovereigns and received an annual tribute of 92,800 pounds. In 1914 Cyprus was annexed to the British crown and became part of the empire, with Ottoman subjects on the island becoming British subjects unless choosing to retain Ottoman nationality. Most Greeks accepted and Turks did too, though the Turkish tribute continues to be paid from island revenues.
The Los Angeles Times notes cacti provide fruit known as Indian figs and fruit pulps for preserves and candy. Some yield medicinal drugs or deadly poisons. lopophophoras give peyote affecting users. Cacti serve as fence posts, mine timbers, hut material, and seeds ground into flour for food, or dense living fences.
The Gaelic word Baile or Balle meaning a town was used for settlements larger than a village and included the local chief's name. Examples include Bally-martin and Bally-honan. If no lord or chief existed, towns were named for local peculiarities, such as Dall-na-hinch or Dally ouhinch the town of the Islands.
Medical authorities explain airsickness stems from hyperventilation where excessive carbon dioxide is expelled. A suggested remedy is to have the patient breathe into a paper bag to restore CO2 levels, with holding breath for about 15 seconds also noted as helpful. This practical approach is deemed more promising than some other popular cures.
Collier's Weekly notes a survey of about a hundred rulers over the past five hundred years. It finds the average reign was twenty years as many faced constant danger and about one third died violently.
Under the mercy of the Wilmington Chamber of Commerce mercantile section the official Wilmington Day will be held Wednesday May 13. Wilmington stores will cooperate to benefit customers across the Del Mar Va Peninsula and adjacent counties of Pennsylvania New Jersey Maryland and Delaware. Merchants promise widest observance with attractive economical purchasing for home use clothing and other family needs across retail merchandise sectors.
A visiting throng of shoppers will seize Wilmington Day bargains while merchants showcase latest designs across lines. Stores stress this is normal merchandise on display, not a one day event, with cooperation from merchants to meet all requirements.
The Mercantile Section of the Wilmington Chamber of Commerce plans in town visitors for Wilmington Day on May 18 1986. The Bureau of Police sanctions a parking coupon for out-of-town shoppers to display on windshields during the event.
Notice from the Denton Journal requests courtesy and assistance for an out of town visitor staying as guest of the Wilmington Chamber of Commerce during the Official Spring Wilmington Day on May 13 1936 in Wilmington Delaware.
Wilmington Day will be offered at real bargain prices with one spring occurrence. Regular prices apply before and after. Courtesy parking coupons, printed by Public Safety, will be distributed to visiting shoppers with clipped coupons to display on cars. Publicity is widespread across Peninsula to encourage early shopping due to expected visitors.
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