08 Nov 1924
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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Nov 08, 1924
Page
1
From now till the holidays shoppers view store windows seeking gifts for Dad Mother and children. The article urges careful early buying and notes a large assortment to aid selection. It emphasizes that the best gift is well chosen not necessarily the most expensive and invites readers to watch for new window gifts.
Notable new fall gloves are soft suede like fabric imported from Saxony. They offer perfect fit and quality with novelty cuff styles. Available colors include pearl fawn covert beaver sand and classic black white. Prices range from 1.00 to 2.50.
A new style shoe to complement wide trousers is showcased in black and brown with a short vamp and a long style. The fit promises comfort and value, advertised as all leather and priced from five to nine dollars.
Advertisement lists plain color flannels in blues grays and tans at 1 75 2 dollars striped and checked fabrics 275 350 Poirot Twills in black and navy 350 Serges and Crepes in all shades 100 to 400 Colored Linens for Holiday Fancy Work especially adapted to hand drawing 100 yard
Fashion copy describes 1924 overcoats with longer skirts narrower collars fuller bodies. Soft fleecy plaid back fabrics come in gray and tan with top-notch making, full and half belts and box back styles in large assortments for a refined look.
See these durable boys suits offering two pairs of pants and reinforced at all stress points. They are built to withstand hard wear and deliver more than the basic needs for quality and value.
A New York Herald Tribune praised the Hauer design as a triumph of shipbuilding. It notes modern steamships survive fierce gales with waves up to 100 feet, resisting breaking the hull, flooding upper decks, or sinking in open sea. Strong constructions rarely fail. weaknesses come from faulty hulls or cargo shifts.
A dialogue quoted in the New York Telegraph features a dressmaker asking what comes next and an apprentice claiming a discovery to make a dress that makes a woman resemble a humpbacked baboon with bat wings. The exchange ends with the dressmaker predicting the creation could become the rage.
Lolo Montez, a Spanish dancer, captivated Europe and America with adventures in the early nineteenth century. After numerous escapades in Europe she arrived in the United States in 1851 and died there in 1860.
An Ieonoclast is described as someone who attacks cherished beliefs or impositions and shams, with origins tied to breaking or destroying icons or images. An Ieonoplast is defined as a maker of images, contrasting the former role.
The Dutch experiment places sixty inmates in Veenhuizen to convert moor into fields. They live in small gangs with no warders, led by voluntary foremen, sharing labor and social progress. Despite easier escape, none has occurred as environment seems kinder. government weighs creating more centers.
Ching stands as a major rice importer with most of the country resembling a vast paddy field. Hongkong serves as a principal conduit, handling much of the rice trade from French Indo China Siam and Burma. Rice is shipped to the port, regraded, mixed, resacked, and sent to foreign markets.
Wells Iver VI watchmaker Harry Holton records mainspring breaks over years. He notes 70 of 7 percent breaks occur at night when a watch warmed by the body during the day is wound after removal, causing contraction and strain as the spring cools.
The article claims annual forest fires burn a total area more than eight times the land devastated in France after the Great War, highlighting a stark contrast in destruction between natural blazes and war damage.
A brief poem contemplates a poet's heart as an unsighted torch guiding footsteps in love and loss. The voice echoes themes of guidance, longing, and the ache of unwarmed affection, invoking intimate imagery of emotion and perception.
In February moonlight the Gifted Ghost guides Terry Darell, a First National teller in Hometown, as he plots a midnight bank robbery to steal a twenty dollar bundle. After a fatal bank watchman shooting, Terry confesses to Melville, inspired by the Ghost to admit his motive and the wrong method, admitting his bitterness over his unpaid salary.
In an April scene the Gifted Ghost watches an understated wedding in Hometown. The dialogue hints at moral ambiguity as a veteran remarks on crime and repayment, contrasting methods of wrongdoing with a thief who harmed another.
The article surveys diverse, humorous weather control beliefs from history and cultures. It cites cat rain rituals in the East Indies, beer offerings in Angonsland, wind knots of Finnish wizards, and Japanese ceremonies with cats. It notes modern science fails to master weather and mocks primitive efforts.
A fragmentary quote by W. J. Holland imagines a lone insect surviving future apocalyptic ruin. Amid fading moonlight and a sun in noon heat, seas frozen, ice caps reaching the equator, cities dead, a lichen-dwelling insect sits on bare rocks near the snows.
The nightingale is praised as the chief musician of the air with flutelike notes. Male nightingales sing genuine love songs signaling mates. Legends say a captured bachelor may live long, while one captured after mating pines to death, hinting at true passion in the bird’s heart.
A centuries old clock in a Lullington England church tower keeps accurate parish time by striking the bell horns. Built in the sixteenth century by the village blacksmith, it uses two heavy stones and a 30 foot rope with a crude escapement. Wound daily by the sexton with oak winding barrels.
In New York during a dinner debate about oil scandals Frank A Vanderup argued that partial truths allow optimistic or pessimistic conclusions and won’t reveal the whole truth. He compared the discussion to a joke about marriage as a shield against self harm and its opposite.
Farmers in Portuguese East Africa invest in tractors while showing limited interest in passenger cars. The shift reflects agricultural priorities and economic conditions affecting vehicle adoption among rural communities.
A boy named Lester, taken by his mother to an all-day ladies' aid meeting, endures a noisy morning but asks to leave in the afternoon as fifty voices overwhelm him and he pleads for a place where women are not.
A Duloth Herald item contrasts a sophisticated age with ignorance, suggesting the era treats experience as wisdom while avoiding innocence. It frames a stance on social perspective and cultural attitude.
A compact Shakespearean line warns that a clever lie easily lodges in a naive listener. The quip highlights how flattery rides into gullible ears.
A concise reflection on honesty as the richest inheritance, invoking Shakespearean thought to elevate moral virtue above material wealth. The short quote underscores integrity as a timeless legacy.
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