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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
May 15, 1926
Page
7
S V Rehart recalls a 1871 Hat Creek fishing drive in Oregon when three Indians used short poles to stir the stream. Trout leaped into a prepared trap and were captured by hand before being tossed onto the bank.
A Montreal Family Herald piece muses on distant stars whose light would take unimaginable time to reach, even if signals traveled 180,000 miles per second. It compares cosmic distances to historic events from 1066 and Bethlehem, highlighting vast spatial remoteness.
Latimer seeks ideal office and rents above a bank. He picks a one flight up space directly over the bank vault containing about $1,000,000. The safe placed over the vault confirms the joke misbeliever that Latimer has “over a million” in his business.
A Rochester Democrat and Chronicle note details a church fundraising idea where a leading church society asks one woman to host a luncheon for seven guests. Each guest pays 50 cents, a cascade of invitations follows with decreasing attendee counts, potentially yielding thousands for the church with over 5,000 small gatherings if carried out.
A tourist quizzed a native guide about infamous crime sites. The guide recalls a case of a man who attacked a rival in love with fiendish gusto, claiming the villain fled in a certain direction and discarded the evidence on the spot. The tale, cited by the Edinburgh Scutsinun, merges gossip and local lore.
A selvec worker notes the mole in the garden shows voracious appetite for worms and grubs, offsetting damage. The creature lacks audible appendages yet hears sounds beyond human range. Its fur has no set or slant, and the mole skin remains spotless regardless of activity.
The Journal presents a compiled crossword with horizontal and vertical clues. Readers fill white spaces to form dictionary words. notes indicate that first letters link to definitions and that abbreviations, slang, and obsolescent forms are flagged. The puzzle ends with a note that the solution will appear in next volume.
In this Kitchen feature six renowned cooks share bread and biscuit ideas. Philadelphia expert Mrs Rover presents easy nutritious bran muffins for breakfast. Mix one egg, milk, salt, sugar, melted butter, flour, baking powder, then bake twenty minutes in a hot oven.
A homemade nut bread guide uses pecans flour baking powder salt sugar and nuts mixed with egg and milk. The batter rests ten minutes then bakes in a greased pan for about thirty minutes with raisins as a nut substitute and butter on sandwiches.
A polished glass disk, spun by an electric motor, keeps a ship's lookout glass free of rain, spray, and snow. The disk rotates fast enough that deposits cannot adhere, providing clear vision in storms. Manufactured by a respected English firm and distributed across the Atlantic, the device offers a simple solution to a long standing navigational problem.
Philadelphians join local lessees in Scottish moor usage. The piece discusses ptarmigan versus grouse, noting their thickly feathered toes for ice, ground nests, diet of insects berries and nuts, and winter color change to white. It highlights monogamous habits and nonshowy male behavior.
The Ohio State Journal notes that smelling is the least reliable sense. It states sight vastly exceeds smell in identifying thousands of objects, and many perfumes from known flowers remain unrecognized by the nose, even after testing multiple odors.
In the North Sea a London office, 400 miles away, decides exactly where each fish will be eaten. Trawlers of a major London firm now carry wireless gear and report every catch to the central office so marketing begins immediately. Fish are sometimes advertised in the London market before returning to port. Rare catches arrive just in time for booked special occasions.
A club dance ends with a married man and a young woman exposed, his wife confronting them as they leave after their fifth fox trot. The wife tests a mock offer related to the other woman’s attire, then rebukes the pair amid tense exchange.
The coast and geodetic survey says every magnet has two types of magnetism. A suspended magnet near another magnet shows attraction between unlike ends and repulsion between like ends. The Earth acts as a permanent magnet, so a free magnet settles to a definite position. The end pointing north is the north pole, though north seeking is a clearer term.
Advice from the Montreal Family Herald on handling worry. If a cause cannot be changed, ignore it. if it can, face it and solve it. Many worries arise from small, self caused lapses, such as leaving an iron on, unprepared meals, or children’s diet.
The split traces to Constantinople's founding and empire division. Ignatius of Constantinople was deposed, succeeded by Photius who summoned the East Council in 807 excommunicating the bishop of Rome. Reunion occurred late in the ninth century until 1054 when Cerularius renewed the condemnation. Attempts at Ferrara in 1439 led to repudiation. the two communions have remained separate.
Southern Corn Bread recipes from Misa Hosa Michaelis for corn bread and real beaten biscuits show using cornmeal sugar salt baking powder shortening and milk or water. Also includes orange muffins and baking tips for preheating ovens and oil stove models.
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