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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
May 10, 1902
Page
6
Our dress goods department offers attractive season bargains with black dress goods from 15c to 1.25 a yard and all wool goods at 25c. Silks and satins for waists and suits, silk pongee at 25c, 1.00 silks in wear and look. Carpets, mattings, rugs, oil cloths and window shades featured with rugs 60c to 3.75, curtains and shades discounted. curtain poles 10c.
Clothing for men boys and children with suits from 40 cents to 1? and pants 25c to 5 dollars. New stock from New York promises best value this season. Shoe and hat department offers fashion at lower prices. Groceries seeds and queensware feature special Saturday bargains.
Manuel Salvaden, famed hunter and fisherman, recounts surviving a felled tree entombment by using a life saving hussar fish message. He explains how hundreds of fish carried a cloth signal to his tribe, guiding his wife to rescue him after days of isolation as drought closed in.
A coastal observer noted windborne sand eroding exposed window panes, inspiring a man to develop a glass carving method. He built a machine using nature's hint to cut designs by blasting sand, achieving results unmatched by any other process.
A five year old, described as foreign extraction, visits a New York library branch and asks staff for a "book of love" for his sister. The next day he returns with a different request, asking for an "other book with more love," after being shown Children of the Abbey.
The Century quotes General Lee arguing against dispersing Confederate troops. He warned dispersal would leave a demoralized, starving force vulnerable to the enemy and robbers, with untenable social chaos. Lee preferred surrender to Grant, believing honorable terms awaited and that a general meeting at 10 a.m. would confirm them.
A Brooklyn damage suit featured a sharp test by a brilliant young sawyer who ridiculed a physician’s testimony on brain and spinal injury. The doctor admitted the knee jerk indicated serious brain trouble, as the attorney mimicked contortions before the jury.
Theophilus Leigh of Balliol College famed as Jane Austen’s great uncle is remembered for wit that ran in the family. He died at ninety after an indefatigable life and a final jesting remark about matrimony. He was noted as an old acquaintance who was “egged on to matrimony” before death.
The piece explains the phrase kicking the bucket as a death method once common by hanging. It also recounts a rail car incident where a woman, thrown by a sudden stop, asks a conductor for assistance and is told he is already married in a Chesterfieldian quip.
A jeweler notes that diamonds allure a class of people especially youths who study displays with quick glances and rarely buy, preferring inside help. He cites a three hundred dollar diamond bought in ten minutes and a woman choosing a small diamond over an hour in the store.
Two children, a girl about eight and a boy six, wait outside St Pauls churchyard while their mother enters the church. They place laurel wreaths on a neglected grave, one wreath per grave, in a moment described as the budding socialist act as the mother returns.
On Lexington avenue a music dealer displayed a white on black sign asking What is home without a piano One night a thief altered the message adding the word Peace The thief removed the final word leaving Peace and hid the sign behind a bank window Silvered plate glass in front of the Bank of New York Herald reported the incident
A six year old and a teacher discuss beauty and meals. The pupil quips that flowers on the table would be seen as weeds by her father. The page then shifts to a note on piscatory authorities and nature balancing fish populations, citing a female cod laying 45 million eggs in one season.
An anecdote from York recalls a trial where after two hours only eleven jurors were present. Mr Justice Gould asks for the missing twelfth juror, and one juror explains he has left his verdict with him before going home on business.
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