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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
May 11, 1912
Page
5
The Rev Sylvester Horne warned charity must be administered with absolute sympathy and humility to uplift others. A London millionaire’s wife tried a charity visit to a New Cut tenement, asking condescending questions, but the hostess bluntly admits she has no time for slumming herself.
A four act comedy by the New York School for the Hard of Hearing left an audience mixed. The play relied on lip reading and sign language, with words spoken but not heard by most in attendance. The audience used signs and waves to show approval while lip readers conveyed the dialogue.
Reports say a pack of wolves crossed from Canada onto the eastern shore of Lake Erie near Westfield New York and travel westward. Farmers are frightened as hunters seek to kill the animals after witnesses describe attacks on sheep dogs cattle and horses. A local land company authorized a reward for capturing or destroying five large wolves sighted in the area.
For the first time in SF police history a Chinese man is under arrest on pocket picking charges. Ah Chong wrestled with a Greek citizen in the street, and the Greek's claimed stolen gold watch was found in Ah Chong's possession. Grand larceny noted in the city prison records.
A plant called the flower of the air grows in Chill and Japan. It has no roots and is never fixed to earth, twining around dry trees or rocks. Each shoot bears two or three flowers pale white and fragrant, like a halo. It can be carried vast distances while suspended on a twig.
In Dickens David Copperfield Mr. Micawber offers blunt financial wisdom: annual income twenty pounds, expenditure nineteen six yields happiness, but twenty pounds income with twenty pounds six expenditure yields misery. The dialogue portrays ongoing ruin and the speaker’s own dejection as the day fades on a bleak scene.
A advice column by Wilford Radford urges readers to invest in well built brick or cement houses, arguing a small extra cost yields lasting value and fire resistance. The piece compares U S and English fire losses, outlines a concrete block house design, and describes a 24 by 24 foot cottage with cellar, using sand finished plaster and tinted walls.
At a London gathering of the Imperial Medical Institute officials presented late census based statistics showing Australia has a death rate of 10.95 per thousand per year, lower than any other region. The report ranks Australia as the healthiest country globally.
In thirty years more than 3,000 acres of England’s coast have slipped into the sea. Yorkshire suffered most, losing about 300 acres. Lancashire and Suffolk each shed nearly 600 acres, with Kent Sussex and Lincolnshire contributing notable losses to the total.
A valuable collection of postage stamps owned by a Budapest architect, valued around 200000 dollars, was purchased by an Italian firm of dealers. The catalog lists seventeen volumes with some stamps priced as high as 1500 dollars each.
At a Lambs frol les celebration Charles Frohman delivered a neat speech. Applause followed, then Augustus Thomas stood on his chair and cried Author.
A reflective line from Goldsmith's Vicar of Wakefield on social duty. It praises the honest man who marries and raises a large family over one who remains single and talks of population, emphasizing practical family labor over theory.
Report notes Randolph grows furious at word of a man running off with another’s wife. Perry counters that the anger stems from fear of losing his own marriage to an elopement. Trib une report reflects sharp wit and social gossip in New York.
The egotist accepts a position and draws a salary while the modest man secures a job and earns wages. The egotist ends up in receivership as the modest man prospers, busting none. This proverb contrasts self importance with prudent, steady effort and outcome.
A farm advisory urges drivers to keep a warm blanket in the vehicle every time they leave the farm. It warns delays may force hitching and potential exposure. The text also recommends daily manure hauling to the field to minimize fertility loss and reduce subsequent labor.
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