10 Nov 1906
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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Nov 10, 1906
Page
1
Lish Hopkins abandons a failed town store dream after overbuying goods and risky financing. Debts mount, the bank advances nothing, and a sheriff seizes the store. Sally urges a return to farming, arguing the farm offers steadier prospects and she never stopped wanting the rural life.
The piece surveys ancient indulgence in perfumes, noting edicts in Athens and Sparta, laws by Caesar and Lucinus, and critiques by Lycurgus and Socrates. It recounts festivals with alabaster scent boxes, Cyrulus mocked for fragrance use, and Syrian banquets where slaves sprayed perfumes to decorate halls and statues with scented jets.
In a New Jersey town officers placed extinguishers in large buildings. A fire broke out and the devices allegedly failed. At a town meeting citizens discussed the incident and one speaker moved to have extinguishers examined ten days before every fire.
The cutters of Brussels and Sao France earn higher wages than London and New York tailors. The glove cutting craft is so difficult that leading cutters are known by name and by fame, and their knives are treasured as family heirlooms passed down through generations.
A sharp man in the poultry trade has made a fortune by raising chickens and writing books guiding others on profits. The exchange notes his unlikely appearance contrasts with his success and offers a glimpse into his advisory work.
The article traces napkin adoption from infancy to elder use in mid fifteenth century Europe. It notes early etiquette seeking to wipe lips and fingers, the shift from floor-length tablecloths to napkins, and the origins of tying napkins around the neck. A French writer criticizes early practice and the expression hard to make both ends meet. It also mentions waiters carrying a napkin on the left arm.
Blairaven Norwood Ceylon correspondent J S Stevenson challenges H I Turner's claim that Tennyson anticipated Martian satellites in 1835 The note in Lord Tennyson's biography says the only modern reading is The Moons of Mars All other citations are over fifty years old Nature reports no anticipation of scientific discovery in Tennyson's poem
The piece recounts a 17th century ordinance under Queen Elizabeth requiring vagrants to be whipped from the middle upward with the body bloodied. It cites a 1691 Huntingdonshire case where 8 shillings 6 pence were spent on detaining and whipping a distressed woman, noting occasional higher charges.
The article notes rudimentary traces of a third eye exist in all vertebrates including humans. It describes the pineal gland as a small mass near the brain's center and suggests the phrase mind's eye may have greater truth than its originator imagined.
A street preacher near Scot hand town complained to a passing policeman about an annoyed audience. The officer teased he could not spot the offenders but offered a practical plan saying he would "go round wi' the lint" to remove them. The exchange ended with a cue to diffuse the crowd.
The term finance traces to ending and its sense of settling obligations. It began as a plain word for ending and later gained the meaning of arranging with a creditor, evolving into the specialized notion of ransom in financial contexts.
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