Fall Clothing Sale Promises Full Assortment
Lost opportunities caution urges buyers to seize the offer on fall clothing hats and furnishings while the complete assortment remains available. Men’s suits and overcoats featured.
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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Nov 04, 1893
Page
1
Lost opportunities caution urges buyers to seize the offer on fall clothing hats and furnishings while the complete assortment remains available. Men’s suits and overcoats featured.
Nothing like them ever known. Prices and goods specials offered with superb suits and overcoats priced from ten to twenty five dollars. An interesting line at fifteen dollars, worth twenty dollars.
For the coming man. Why should you not take pride in your little fellows dress as in your own. Stylish knee pants suits and overcoats at 2.50 3 and 5. Over fifty choice styles 5 from which to choose.
A brisk sales pitch touts fall hats with Derbys at 1.50 and exclusive Youman hats at 2.50. The department boasts a larger stock than two stores combined and claims unmatched prices while promoting comfortable underwear and a 50 cent dress shirt. The excerpt closes with a literary verse about roses and love.
The narrator recalls waking drunk after a night of champagne and betting eight hundred twenty francs, with clues hidden in a cafe bill and a suspect guest list. He reconstructs attendees from potsage and entrees, identifies Lucien, Maxime, Fernand, Polastron, Semenow, and Marcel, and notes a pretty unknown girl among female supper guests. He hints at a debutante, a hidden liaison, and implies his own intoxication caused the events.
A narrator imagines a salon scene with six men and three women, discovering a web of cards, handkerchiefs, and a wilted myosous boutonniere. He fears a duel prompted by a mysterious rendezvous at St Manunde and realizes he may have ventured into others’ pockets and identities. The tale blends suspense, mistaken ownership, and a dangerous romance.
In Lisbon years ago a cheerful boatman served visiting ships and earned much patronage. His name Tom Fishballs, translated as John Fishballs, became a popular nickname used by many boatmen on the quay causing shouts and a scramble for fares whenever a passenger appeared.
A brief health note advises gradual exposure of feet to cold water to toughen the body against colds, recommending progressively longer soaks over days. The piece cautions careful practice and includes a quip about a pastor's sermon drafting.
A medieval legend recalls Dido queen of Tyre fleeing after her husband’s death. She obtains land in Africa by weaving a maroon hide into a long line around shore limits and claiming what could be enclosed. From this tale a modern phrase for sharp deception arises.
A French view contrasts instruction with education as two parts of youth training. The piece argues for a broader, culture forming education that blends intellect and moral cultivation beyond books and sermons. It notes American life’s uneven development, urges public focus on this holistic education, and warns against overindulgence and superficial early training.
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