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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Nov 09, 1901
Page
4
A Psychological Review note recounts Slosson’s lecture experiment with distilled water. He times when audience members claim to perceive a odor, finding rapid majority detection within minutes and many quitting, while skeptics resist. The piece notes curiosity about audience reaction to manipulated imagination remains unanswered.
A New York Sun description notes how building flats spurred social changes as delivery wagons began roof signs. Signmakers shifted from vertical spine lettering to side placements, then to crosswise roof posters. Moving vans with full roof lettering became eye catching for residents, turning roofs into large public posters.
A travelogue scene describes an Eskimo household breakfast ritual. The mistress awakens early, serves meat to steady nerves, then hosts and guests dine together on a flat tray. Courses include walrus meat and a thick piece of walrus hide with blubber, cut into small pieces.
A Detroit Free Press tale recalls a costly meal in 1896 when a traveling magician faced a stubborn farmer owner who would not listen to reason. The magician swallows seven five dollar gold pieces in fake luck and pays thirty five dollars on twenty five cents, as the farmer keeps his gun ready. Also notes a cigar ash remedy for heartburn reportedly used by Cuban dons and smokers.
A Chinese cook, eager to make a grand cake for a special occasion, seeks a motto to crown the frosted top. His mistress agrees to let him decide. The result astonishes her when the cake bears the motto Prepare to Meet Thy God found by the cook at a mission Sunday school.
Bells were used in China Japan and India long before Europe. In Nikko temple forecourt vast bells sit low on timber frames and swing by battering rams of hardwood. They produce muffled deep tones, carried far, though sounding soft.
Civil disturbances in Sweden from 1738 to 1771 pitted Russians sympathizers against French supporters. The kingdom faced near anarchy until Gustavus III seized control in 1771, banning faction names and suppressing disorders to curb foreign interference.
A traveling lecturer in a single state relays a humorous misadventure about needing a shave before a show. In haste he asks a barber to shave him, only to be asked to lie on the couch because the barber usually shaves corpses. The line provokes the lecturer’s surprise and a quick, comic clash of roles.
A catalog of winter items features comfortable dotted and striped flannels for waists, black dress goods, excellent home spun skirtings, cheviots and serges, rainy day skirts, capes coats furs fascinators ice wool shawls. Union suits, vests and pants for ladies misses in gray and red flannel accompany men's selections.
From northern markets the storeowners boast a wide line of men, women, and children's suits and capes plus overcoats. They advertise dry goods gowns silks velvets and boots and shoes in latest styles at rock bottom prices due to three times the buying capacity. Call to inspect the fall and winter line and thank customers for past favors.
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