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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
May 13, 1905
Page
2
Editorial notes reflect on graduation as a beginning not an end and warn graduates to apply knowledge gradually. The piece praises Caroline County’s telephone expansion and regional progress, cites Congressman Livingston's view on a Democratic House, urges local business growth, mentions Russia’s Zemstvos favoring a secret ballot, and notes a South strawberry surplus tied to refrigerator car shortages.
The German emperor lauds Japan as a luminous patriotism model while warning against drawing Christian defeatist conclusions from Japanese victories. He notes Russian failures stem from weak Christianity and calls Japan a “scourge of God” while urging Germans to heed the war lessons.
Republican statesmen discuss tariff re adjustment on a Washington street corner. A senator warns that ignoring popular demand could yield a Democratic House majority. note that New York Pennsylvania and Ohio hold the top Ways and Means seats.
A Senate inquiry heard Payne Dazell and Grosvenor insist tariffs favor states' profits over curbs. They charged the Steel Trust sells plates to foreign shipyards for 24 a ton delivered on the Clyde while American builders pay 32 in Cleveland. They also claimed U S railroads pay 6 to 7 more per ton for steel rails than Canadian lines, hindering merchant marine growth and pushing rail farmers toward Canada.
German experts link soil fertility decline to ancient civilizations decayed by time and adopt scientific farming to avert a fate shared by Greece Assyria Carthage and Rome. Frank H Mason reports from Frankfurt that 79 million acres receive about 60 million dollars in artificial fertilizer yearly, boosting crop value seven to tenfold and enabling Germany to feed about nine tenths of its nearly sixty million people despite urban migration and industrial pressures. High intensity farming in Western regions now yields heavy profits and consistent crops where old methods would have failed.
In Caroline County Circuit Court an equity suit by William P. Willis and Nellie Willis against George H. Mandrill Ella Mandrill Fredes G. Mandrill Sarah E. Mandrill Nancy Malisa Donovan Laura E. Reed and David Reed Ella Downes and Harry Downes Nora O. Cohee and William Cohee seeks a decree to sell a Mary J. Fleetwood estate held in fee simple and divide proceeds among heirs. The court ordered publication in four weekly issues beginning June 1905 to notify absent defendants to appear by June 21.
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