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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
May 13, 1911
Page
6
A Virginia preacher nicknamed One Eyed Walling shares original theology and a tale about seven devils tied to Mary Magdalene. The passage urges thorough, earnest work in all duties, from mansion building to shoe mending, stressing that diligent, honest effort pleases God and sustains self-respect.
A rich retired man builds a cut stone wall around his country estate in New Hampshire, enjoying the project. An Irish contractor teases the man about future judgments of brains versus money as the wall nears completion.
A platform lecturer in Ruta faced a stern rebuke from his bureau manager after a two hour talk in Johnstonburg allegedly bored over half his audience. The lecturer retorted that audiences often want more, recalling a prior instruction to quit when the crowd desires.
An Irish worker assigned to haul material to a top floor gets lost and cannot descend. The boss calls up, asking Pat to come down. Pat refuses, claiming he ascended head first and will not reverse course, illustrating a doomed stairway misunderstanding with humor.
Tom Weldon travels from Al toonan to Philadelphia and plays a card game with a young man who loses steadily. Near Philadelphia the total debt reaches 61 dollars as the young man scavenges his pockets for payment. He produces two twenty-dollar bills two fives a ten dollar gold piece a silver dollar a half dollar a quarter two dimes four pennies and still cannot find the final penny. He apologizes claiming he is one cent short. Weldon dismisses the cent and accepts the young man’s offer of his evening paper.
The Post Office Department urges rural route patrons to erect neat painted boxes and posts, white in color, with owners name and box number in black two inch letters. Town names on posts and directional marks are advised to aid mail delivery and deter thieves.
Massachusetts station bulletin by J B Lindsey on green crops for summer feeding recommends oats and Canada field peas as the best follow up to clover. Three sowings begin early spring, with one and a half bushels of each per acre, either broadcast together or sequentially after plowing and harrowing. First harvest around June 20, with rapid yields in later sowings. cattle daily intake 50 to 70 pounds, cautioning against excess. Also suggests four to seven quarts of grain mix per animal daily.
The text advises scattering wood ashes in orchards, maintaining soil moisture by cultivation, and using rough weather to repair frames and sash. It suggests painting sash biennially, letting chickens run in older orchards to weed and scratch, and using an extendable harrow under young trees to cultivate and work soil between rows.
A 17 room brick dwelling with bank barn and outbuildings, 800 peach trees on one tract, and three adjoining tracts near Boonsboro school house to the river described as high cultivation land for grain fruit and truck. Tracts 1 2 and 3 to be sold separately or in total with possession in 1912. Parcels 4 and 5 offer small holdings. Crops for 1911 reserved. Terms: one fourth cash day of sale with staged payments through 1914 1915. Harvey L. Cooper Denton Md trustee Temple Auc.
Land description covers parcels conveyed to John Whyte with exceptions and a 15 acre 76 perch segment to George T Redden. Improvements include an implement shed and outbuildings with apple and peach orchards. Located 1.5 miles from Denton. Cash on day of sale. title papers at purchaser expense. A work horse with foal by side owned by Mr Whyte to be sold after real estate.
In the Circuit Court for Caroline County Frederick M. Turner sues Walter M. Love and the corporation Aultman & Taylor in equity seeking relief. The matter appears in a chancery docket of the court.
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