28 May 1881
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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
May 28, 1881
Page
1
A lurid home scene unfolds as a young woman in luxury beds a lover while her father hides in awe and the parlor hosts rented splendor. The tale pivots on male trust betrayed by female guile and ends with a costly marriage amid tension and moral judgment.
A memoirlike account follows Johnny from infant boy in dresses to a headstrong child during a church outing. The narrator recalls his growing temper, boyish mischief, and the father’s reflections on discipline, church, and the mother’s tears. The piece ends with regional notes on Delaware River shad restoration and historic fish runs.
Delaware silver fishing notes a strong restocking success by the U S Fish Commission with shad appearing in large schools far up the Delaware River at Lackawaxen Pa on May 22 This season shows abundant shad after years of depletion and the restocking effort is credited with reviving shad populations in the river system.
Machines for eye hatching displayed in Cologne Zoological Gardens captivate the public. A glass framed setup with a zinc warmed nest system maintains 32 degrees Reaumur, with multiple warm rooms guiding young birds from hatching to independent life. Fifty such brooding machines are shown, named The Hen, to finalize care before self-reliance.
This fragment mocks social types by contrasting prominence of appetite with labor, notes the sudden death of Magister after a hearty breakfast, and lampoons leaders Garfield and Conkling. It ends with comic mob-like imagery of the mosquito as the season’s night bird and a curtain of echoes.
The speaker denounces a gentleman's snobbish grandeour and notes a satirical piece by Theodore Tilton in the New York Independent. He argues the mantle of Winter Davis has misguided the New York member, inflating his pomp with literary jests and references to Hyperion and a bearable satire.
Italian harpist Nick Vallenato, settled in Port Jervis, New York, learns a wandering Italian violinist is his long lost brother in Sussex County. The two meet when the violinist recognizes his brother after hearing him play their shared tune Italy thou our mother, and embrace with tears of joy.
The Philadelphia Times reports a Smyrna Del. girl named Lottie Maloney, who came to Philadelphia years ago, has been adopted by Dr. Joseph M. Leon under the name Lottie Josephine Leon. He plans to leave a large share of his estate to her before she returns to her impoverished parents.
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