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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
May 13, 1893
Page
1
The advertisement proclaims larger, better, brighter stock than ever, equal in variety to three houses combined, with prices lower than ever. It boasts that a man with a slim budget can dress like a king this year.
The ad touts tailor made garments praised for superior style and durability offered cheaper than elsewhere. It highlights extensive lines priced at ten twelve fifteen and seventy eight dollars, inviting buyers to compare value.
A local advertise featuring boys and children's suits hats and furnishings in charming styles. Prices range from 1 98 for boys suits up to 15 for finer garments. The notice emphasizes careful tailoring and top quality.
Store touts the largest line of men’s and boys’ hats and caps ever shown with leading shapes and new colors. Men’s hats priced from 59 cents to 3 dollars while boys’ hats run from 14 cents to 2.50.
The Furnishing Department showcases many exclusive novelties in neckwear hosiery shirts and underwear at prices 25 percent lower than elsewhere. Request samples and the price list.
A reflective vignette opens with a hazy Venetian scene of a lone woman at a window and a grieving narrator, then shifts to a lengthy first person memory of Ivan Tourgueneff’s quail hunting tale in southern Russia, detailing nature, hunting ethics, and a boy’s awakening compassion.
A French paper recounts Meissonier's conscientious pursuit of truth in depicting Napoleon in 1814. He posed before a long mirror for four hours in winter, using Soliman and a chauffelette to study attitudes, while a large garden furnished the setting for the pose. A second note muses on women and tears, quoting a Philadelphia Times line about coquetry and concealed pain.
An old practice describes spawning fish in an empty eggshell sealed with wax and placed under a sitting hen. The hatchlings are later released into sun warmed water to grow before being moved to a lake or stream. Exchange.
A historic note discusses preventing wheel slippage on streetcar rails, winter hazards from cold and snow, and the salt tactic’s drawbacks when crushed. It highlights inventor chances for a better remedy and cites related anecdotes from Boston Transcript on quirks of language and oddities.
A note on satyrion, an old name for several orchids used by herb lists. Roman lore claimed satyrion roots fed patyas and sparked lustful excesses. Kircher recounted a youth whose lovesick woes arose from a garden corner overgrown with satyrion whose scent alone stirred affection.
The Manchester Times recounts the 1865 Fenian escape led by Breslin the hospital warden and Byrne the night watchman. Breslin forged a key imprint, distracted the governor, and aided Stephens’s climb over a 20 foot wall, then another 20 foot barrier. Stephens jumped 26 feet into darkness, landed safely, and fled to a garden where a rope and gravel signal enabled his capture by armed guards in wait. He hid 14 days, moved to a Dublin boarding house, then sailed from Ireland.
In Our Own Country the legend of Killarney centers on an enchanted fountain whose head, if left open at special times, would flood the district. A fair peasant girl lured her lover to the fountain where they slept as its music lullabyed them. At dawn she cried the wells, the waters surged forth, engulfing them and the submerged houses and inhabitants are said to still haunt the water’s edge.
A veteran engineer, Richard Peck, once repaired a broken piston on the City of Vera Cruz after it split in three pieces off the coast near Hatteras. He patched the engine for 24 hours and steered the vessel at six miles per hour to port, proving ingenuity survives storms at sea. The tale is cited by the Marine Journal.
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