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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Nov 03, 1923
Page
8
Shirley Carter, living in Spotsford Centre, faces heartbreak as her former fiancé Raymond Hurt, thought lost to illness and distance, returns to claim the wedding day she believed overdue. Mary Spotsford asks Shirley to weigh pride against love as plans for two marriages unfold.
Mary teases Raymond as Shirley prepares for a quick wedding, prompting a plan to summon the Perkins family for a second bouquet. Shirley, grateful for Mary’s help, faces five hours to arrange details and reconcile loneliness with Raymond’s return. The scene suggests renewed attachment after years apart.
Sixty years ago two men rose in a balloon to five miles, a record long held. French meteorologists began sending small balloons with self registering thermometers, revealing temperature behavior above six and a half miles and showing slight rises at higher levels. Balloons up to 40,000 feet and pilot balloons to 82,000 feet demonstrated strong upper atmospheric winds. These devices, including parachute return mechanisms, broadened weather science beyond the earthward.
A Countess of Jersey recollects the Victorian era with pages on Gladstone Balfour Kemble Bernhardt and royal weddings. She recalls meeting Wellington as a child and Victoria as a girl, and a 1863 wedding where the future Kaiser wore a Scottish suit misaligned with expectations, prompting a humorous royal defense of militarism.
Tom Mix, the noted film star, was born near El Paso, Texas, where his family bred race horses. He grew up riding horses, attended Virginia Military Institute, served in the Spanish American War, fought in the Philippines, aided the relief during the siege of Peking, became a Texas ranger, and then entered moving pictures through his renowned riding and shooting skills.
Air photographs by O G B Crawford in southern England expose preserved Celtic field boundaries dating 1500 to 2500 years, showing low chalk banks, earthworks invisible from ground, patterns linking fields to ancient villages, and possible irrigation.
A judge notes a witness is not necessarily untruthful when he alters a prior statement. He recalls a personal example about forgetting a watch, then learns his wife had already moved the watch by giving it to the first man who arrived, who knew its location.
An article notes women in Japan occupy limited social positions with men as household head. It describes ongoing but sporadic agitation for equal rights and suffrage, while domestic life centers on the master of the house, with meals and authority following his approval. An American in Tokyo tries his Japanese with an interpreter during a morning lesson.
A foreigner repeats a phrase and is told it is not good Japanese to use except when addressing inferiors such as a servant or wife. The exchange highlights strict social etiquette and linguistic hierarchy in the dialogue.
The text explains how taste varies by tongue region. It notes that aromatical flavors like spices, coffee, and wine are sensed by the front tongue, while sweetness appears at the tip. It reports experiments where placing substances between teeth or on the cheek yields no taste, and emphasizes regional taste differences in foods.
The subscriber in Caroline County Maryland reports letters testamentary on the estate of Dora Powell late of Caroline County deceased. Creditors must exhibit claims with vouchers by May 3 1924 or be excluded from benefits by law. Given October 18 1923.
A story notes Rastus Jackson, described in harsh terms, refuses a life insurance policy offer from an agent, quipping that he is not safe at home. The brief vignette appears as a judge's remark within a narrated anecdote.
A teacher recalls a light moment during a scene with Joseph laughing up his sleeve, unaware of a hole in the stage area. The anecdote centers on an unforeseen mishap and the amused reaction of onlookers.
The piece describes gulls as elegant masters of the air, their white bodies and black wing tips observable as they maneuver in wind. It notes gulls’ predatory theft from murres and cormorants, their habit of cracking shells, and a dramatic account of a gull dropping prey onto rocks to break it open.
Republican candidate Leonard F Covey did not seek the nomination but accepted after requests from friends of both parties He is described as a man of character and ability born on a farm in Caroline County fifty one years ago and has since worked on farms He is an auctioneer with real estate and personal property sales knowledge and served four years as a judge of the Orphans Court and two years in the House of Delegates The American Union urges voters to elect Carey to bring economy efficiency and lower taxes to county affairs
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