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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
May 28, 1892
Page
1
Progressive Maryland retailer touts a new annex at 6 and 8 S Charles St joining 6 and 7 W Baltimore St forming an L at Baltimore's busy intersection. Ad touts men’s clothing boy’s wear tailoring hattery and furnishings with midrange prices and emphasis on quality and economy.
The notice lists a variety of fabrics including serge, whip cords, worsteds, and cottons with prices from eight cents to thirty one fifty per yard. Names like G French and Frenchserge appear alongside fabric types such as Bedford cords and fancy colored flouncings in a bustling sales pitch.
An extensive slate of wares is offered including White Goods French Gin ghams Swandownes Cuttings Calicoes Shirtings Percales and Cassimeres. Also a line of Sarahs Faille Silks Gimps and Laces with Trimmings. Gents top shirts hats neckwear and a full range of fine handmade shoes. Hardware lap Dusters horse collars whips groceries provisions flour feed lime and more. Call to inspect stock before buying.
Freeman Co of Rochester New York advertises openings for salesmen to take orders for a full line of fruit and ornamental trees shrubs and roses. No experience needed references required and a good west address is requested.
A long tale mixes a 1795 Amsterdam dowry scheme with a Broek merchant's clever herring barter. Master Woerden and Van Elberg trade, marry, and outwit each other to secure dowries, profits, and mutual honor in a witty cross-continental subplot.
A playful dialogue between a tiger and a lion from Tarper's Bazar. The tiger praises Pima daisies while the lion boasts of being a dandy. The tiger counters daisies' popularity over dandelions in a witty exchange.
The Sacro Catino at Genoa cathedral, long thought a ruby or emerald cup, is now identified by a jeweler as green glass. The artifact, 14 inches wide and 5 inches deep, has a storied history from the Crusades to Genoa vaults, but recent tests question its authenticity as a sacred relic. The debate continues among scholars and collectors alike.
A collage of short items from Harper's Young People and Belleville Ontario reports. Leonard Whitton of Brighton is described as Canada's biggest man at 469 pounds with detailed measurements and notes of rapid weight gain. Also includes a Victorian anecdote about Lord Lytton and Mrs Birch and a San Francisco Argonaut tidbit.
A collage of brief notes covers animal behavior, domestication, adornment customs in Hindoo and Pacific peoples, grave Greenland burial beliefs, spider reverence in Fiji, reflections on walking and progress, railway joint expansion, a Summerville lightning tale, a general note on knowledge and immunity, cautions about treating wounds, and a note on Chinamen forbidden to fish salmon in the Columbia river.
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