03 Nov 1923
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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Nov 03, 1923
Page
1
Boys Norfolk suits described in brown and tan checks herringbone and pinstripe blends. Prices range from 7.50 to 22.50 per suit. Each includes an extra pair of fully lined pants and several styles with regular golf knickers.
Frances, a widow’s daughter, works her garden while Jem Parsons returns to help. He urges shared effort, offers money and aid, and they bond over planting and future harvests. Frances gains independence, faces love, and Jem learns his own heart. a far country for good news becomes a local turning point.
The article traces Sweden from medieval commercial power with Stockholm and Lund rivaling London and Paris, to a great northern military force admired across courts. It contrasts ancient prominence with a modern peaceful kingdom and notes Norway's secession and Denmark's past dominance as historical context.
Sixty or seventy years ago a joke marked a man’s door with G T T meaning Gone to Texans. Texans were blamed for bankruptcy, arrest warrants, or life of wandering gypsy nature seeking new adventures. The label implied moral, mental, and financial decline and lore of rough frontier life.
President Ryerson Polk argues farmers suffer most from deflation in Peoria addressing rising winter prices. He likens the farmer’s misery to a mariner and cites a quip about gray hair softening wrinkles. The tone uses satire to critique economic hardship and aging effects.
A disconsolate tramp sits with his back to a hedge eating from a newspaper. A pedestrian with a dog stops nearby. The dog noses the food and the tramp smiles. He offers danger and clutches the dog by the scruff then tosses it over a hedge. If the dog returns he jokes he might toss him more.
Peter Cox returns to Peggy Lowell after hearing Taylor from the city plans to marry her. Peggy rejects social pressure and declares love, while Peter abandons selling the farm. They reconcile, decide to stay, and plan a future together on the old place.
A London Tit-Bits note lists curious criminal terms and meanings. It defines expressions like getting a hornet into his web as being overtaken by retribution and stung to death, and catalogs terms such as fly flat, smasher, snider, page-hunter, shifitng the cut, broadsmen, Peterclaimer, snout, pongelo, mumper, gorge tramp, snoucher, griddier, music takers, drag, stretch, kite, boob, foot wiper, blunt, and casual busting with their criminal senses.
Coleridge extols the genius of ancient Greece as universal yet personal, a flexible, tireless spirit that encompasses the variety of Homeric pictures, the gloom of Aeschylus, and the depth of Plato without being fully summed by any single figure. The prose links Greek intellect to living English eloquence.
A three year old Dorothy scuffled with her six year old sister Hazel leaving Hazel with a scratched face. The girls told their parents who, amid dining, discussed Dorothy's fighting nature while she calmly drank her soup.
A brief exchange shows one speaker asking how the rat entered a space and another replying with a casual acknowledgment. The dialogue captures a small moment of informal curiosity and confirmation.
A fragment describes Noley Sullivan and an Irish newcomer, Pat, at Nell Park near Columbus. While watching an extra inning baseball game, a sundown cannon at the barracks booms. Pat asks Tommy about the sound, the relative replies Sun's gone down, prompting Pat to joke about a bang.
A meditation on cynicism as the clash between illusion and reality. The cynic clings to fantasies while recognizing they are false, often projecting disillusionment onto others. The piece notes self-deception, childlike hopes, and the danger of lying to oneself eroding all landmarks of truth.
In early encounters, Columbus noted natives puffing smoke in Cuba in 1402, using maize-leaf cigars. Spaniards in Paraguay faced tobacco-snake tubes, while Gonzalo de Oviedo carried plants back to Europe. Nicot popularized the name nicotiana through seeds gifted to Catherine de Medici, as Raleigh and Drake later spread smoking in England.
An early bronze inscription from Aljustrel Portugal, dating to the first century A D, details public bath facilities at the Vipasca mining camp. It records bath lessees supplying hot water from dawn to night, with freedmen, slaves, soldiers, and children admitted free, copper baths cleaned monthly and tallow smeared. Charges for men were twice those for women.
On a festive porch adorned with pine boughs and ferns a couple feels a defining moment. Inside the orchestra waltzes as they hesitate beneath a ghostly light and consider walking the block before choosing to go inside. London Punch captures the scene.
A monk named Elimer from Malmesbury reportedly made brief glides in early times under King Harold. He strapped oxen to large wings and leapt from a tall tower, skimmed for a fur long before a cross current or air pocket toppled him, breaking both legs.
Saunders declines the doctor's hospitality with three reasons. He is chairman of the local temperance society, headed to a kirk meeting, and has just had one drink. The exchange preserves a rural community tone and highlights social duties.
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