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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
May 18, 1912
Page
3
Baltimore shoppers find a wide array of children’s apparel with prices from 50 cents to $10.00. Nainsook slips, fine dresses, coats, caps, rompers, and petticoats highlight trimmed embroidery, lace, and bright prints for ages newborn to 14 years.
The Waterville Sentinel lists six Maine towns incorporated by the 1812 legislature Brewer Phil ips far up in Franklin county Bing ham on the Kennebec Troy in Waldo Foxcraft and Se bec in Piscataquis county as centennial towns. Celebrations planned include summer events with old home week reunions exhibitions a historical parade a big dinner and a centennial ball with village band.
A Broad Street broker rushed downstairs to catch an old client who entered an Inside Office. The man left to shave and the broker followed, finally securing a 10 share order in New York Central. The same broker once refused an odd lot of Union Pacific in 1906, citing firm policy.
Inspectors from the bureau of Weights and Measures found lead weights inside multiple turkeys at a New York butcher’s shop. One turkey weighed nine pounds and sold at 30 cents per pound. A sixteen ounce sinker was hidden in the stomach, and all turkeys were opened to uncover similar weights ranging from 12 to 24 ounces. The proprietor was fined $50 for fraud.
Mrs Newlywed tells Cecil she learned to bake biscuits in cooking school and presents the first batch at home. Cecil compliments the biscuits, praises Sally's skill, and jokes about his digestion comparing to his mother’s training. He eagerly asks for another.
The will of the late Rev James Thornton Newbury of Killanick Rectory County Wexford details an unconventional burial. It objects to churchyard burial due to overcrowding and prescribes a brick tomb seven feet wide and eight feet high with a glass roof pane and an iron railing enclosure.
A reflective adage attributed to Victor Hugo on trials and destiny. The excerpt emphasizes inner worth, enduring love, and the peril of valuing surface beauty over souls. It frames life as a long preparation, with death ending shallow loves and true connection found through deeper virtue.
The passage explains that substances that expand upon freezing, like water, freeze at lower temperatures under higher pressure while others freeze higher. When a substance that expands freezes under increased pressure it must exert more force to displace pressure, consuming more heat energy and thus cooling further.
Too Much Continuous Performance. Little Madge contracted appendicitis and was sent to the hospital for an operation. She bore it bravely and coolly. When convalescent, the surgeon came to remove stitches. The child protested indignantly, asking if she came to be stitched up only to be unpicked again.
A nostalgic reminiscence recalls mothers turning to poetry for comfort in hard times. It describes seeking solace in old reading by lamplight, curling beside a leather trunk and perusing verses from a magazine called Success.
A concise, reflective meditation on truth as a property of the soul rather than external objects. The speaker argues that facts and matter are phantoms, while the soul perceives its own tremors and sense within the earthly night. A contemplative assertion of inward truth.
A letter of introduction, handed to a manager by an actor, praises the presented performer as of much merit. It notes he plays Macbeth Richelieu Ham per Shylock and billiards, and claims he plays bv Wards best. The wording suggests a humorous or garbled endorsement referencing varied roles and activities.
The piece reviews a compact five room cottage plan by William A. Radford style, detailing a central north stair, a large living room, a connected kitchen pantry area, and a refined front porch. It notes hot air furnace heating, ventilation needs, and a total completed cost around 2005 dollars, with emphasis on space efficiency and homelike comfort.
In a tense confrontation a player reacts to a strategic shutout with phrases like We froze him out and How did he take it He got hot signaling mounting frustration and a dramatic clash on the court as spectators watched.
A note suggests using paper plates for pets, to be kept clean and burned after use, with a porch zine to simplify cleaning. Separately, a serious mutiny occurred at a northern France reform school where 300 girls resisted, using sabots as weapons until 35 were arrested and order restored.
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