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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
May 26, 1923
Page
3
In a heated social clash, Sarah parries a minister's insult about odalisques and moral expectations. Linton accuses her of corrupting mission work while Sarah taunts him over hypocrisy, ending with Jim Foster interrupting with a bawdy quip about premarital flirtations and tobacco curing.
An allotment worker in Sheffield unearthed a round object which proved to be a silver Charles I crown in good condition. A London shop offered 84.20 pounds, but the owner declined. The find near Castle Hill, near the old Sheffield castle site, suggests more relics may lie nearby.
The Broadway Association of New York proposed a ten ton gold Victory statue to symbolize improvement of Broadway. They also suggested guarding the monument and using bullion from the sub-treasury as the gold source. A reader calculated the statue’s value at the then gold price around 7.5 million dollars.
A list of readers in a library appears as a sequence of puns pairing occupations with book authors and surnames. Each quirky couplet links a character to literary figures such as Longfellow Gay Lamb Wells Locke Wordsworth Caine Bacon White Gray Ade Dick ens revealing a playful wordplay on identities and volumes.
In a playful Popular Mechanics inspired stunt a rider sits on a car radiator with wheels off center to mimic broncho busting. A saddle on the hood drew a $25 prize for two blocks. At ten miles an hour the rider struggled. at fifteen he fell off.
A rural southern Black man travels to the city for work. Employers’ letters praise his loyalty and skill, prompting his surprised remark about being paid well, reflecting a dated stereotype from Everybody's Magazine.
The article notes Britons used coal before Julius Caesar's 64 B C landing. It states coal was first used as fuel in 852 and employed in blast furnaces for iron by 1612. It adds Joliet and Marques found coal near Utica Illinois in 1673 and that Indians knew of many coal beds and burned coal instead of wood.
Colorado ranks seventh in size among the 48 states with a land area of 60,341,120 acres or 103,056 square miles. It is over twelve times Massachusetts and about twice Iowa, roughly the same size as New York Ohio Connecticut and New Hampshire combined. Its extreme length is 387 miles east west and width about 276 miles. Several counties exceed some states in area.
A devotional meditation on valuing Jesus Christ, citing the thirty pieces of silver as symbolic price. It urges readers to consider their own estimate of Christ against God’s eternal plan and the consequences of honoring or denying Him. The piece reflects on Judas, Pilate, and the contrast between worldly wealth and eternal grace.
A garage floor was tested by five elephants weighing nearly 28 tons to prove its firmness. The owner doubted the structure while the architect insisted it was safe. The elephants walked steadily onto the floor, confirming the construction’s stability.
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