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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
May 16, 1931
Page
3
Banks provide a large share of funds for home building. Savings deposits are commonly loaned for real estate, with standard mortgage terms and careful pre agreed conditions. Banks and borrowers enjoy a long supported relationship. bankers offer counsel and adapt facilities to local needs, aiding home construction and purchase nationwide.
A bank in Olympia Washington established a farm service department and appointed a farm advisor last year. Collaboration with the state college extension service continues. Dairying work proceeds with the Dairy Herd Improvement Association. A pasture contest with four county banks offered 100 in prizes. Poultry work cooperates with the Cooperative Poultry Association. An economic conference for berry growers was assisted. The bank farm advisor aids the Agricultural Council and Farmers Market. Six hundred farm business analysis blanks and farm and poultry record books were distributed to help farmers start keeping records.
A vintage column notes travelers at Japanese inns can buy Bombay duck pieces and smoked fish two inches long, with pickled seaweed, seaweed jelly, and hot chutney. It highlights raw octopus popularity, a Japanese hamburger made from pickled radish, and a humorous Uncle Eben quote from the Washington Star about children peeking into Sunday school.
A new mechanical voice for repeating telephone numbers, called the dial call announcer, is in daily use between twelve Manhattan central offices and Asbury Park, Spring Lake, and Ramsey in New Jersey. The system uses trunking switches to spell the destination and connects to a call announcer in the tandem office, enabling automatic number delivery without changing user behavior.
More than 1,000,000 people in 862 drought hit counties across 20 states received aid from the American Red Cross in the era’s largest relief effort. Seed programs reached 58,000 families for rye and pastures, 27,000 for kitchen gardens, with 607,000 seed packs distributed in 15 states.
Edwin F Hill reports Chesapeake and Potomac Companies plan about 56.15 million dollars in plant additions and replacements over three years ending 1933. Net gain of roughly 106 thousand telephones, reaching about 757 thousand in service across Maryland Virginia West Virginia and DC, with December 3 as near milestone.
The Montreal Family Herald reports Beethoven died eight days after confessing a five hundred dollar debt to the Philharmonic Society that had advanced funds on his death bed. He said his new tenth symphony lay on his desk sketched but unfinished and never completed after his passing.
Parson Tenthly and Deacon Dutton discuss their automobiles as tuk outlines car engineering. The conversation shifts from tires to the light on the windshield. The deacon asks what’s hardest to overcome while driving. the parson replies the urge to talk back to his wife.
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