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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Nov 10, 1923
Page
3
The American Red Cross reports a broad push into public health education. It notes 40,000 Red Cross nurses with 1,038 in public health nursing, training in home hygiene, nutrition, first aid, and water safety, plus 35,283 health meetings reaching about 254,500 people.
The article urges a national Armistice Day drive from November 11 to 29 to build Red Cross unity through $1 enrollments. It highlights Japan relief as proof of preparedness and stresses the need for millions of individual members across 3,600 U S Red Cross chapters to sustain rapid, country wide relief efforts.
During a dinner from his last American trip H G Welts recounts a memory of working at a drapery shop near Pennsylvania Station noting a former farm drapery colleague who inquires about his success after leaving the shop. The exchange hints at Welts's post‑employment progress and nods to a distant work past.
Two youngsters sat on the front steps thirty enjoying two pieces of ice they had begged from mother. One exclaimed how cold the ice is. The other retorted that it should be cold since it came from the refrigerator.
English papers note the U S uses telephones more than Britain and compare it to vital utilities. The Financial Times calls Americans as heavy users. The Nottingham Journal foresees telephones becoming as essential as baths, while Britain relies on the Post Office for service.
A Havana Havana Key West submarine telephone cable was damaged by an anchor near Havana harbor. Engineers used a shark proof iron cage as divers retrieved the cut cable end and replaced sixty feet of main line. Service was restored before nightfall.
A Kentucky governor extols the telephone as a vital public good, praising its role in crisis response, national unity, and rapid business communication, asserting no greater agency for public welfare. The speech lauds telephone service as essential to transporting voices, binding the nation and accelerating industry.
In 1922 the Bell System expanded by 582,064 telephones through new construction and purchased 18,594 from other companies. The record growth is expected to be exceeded in 1923 by about 200,000 telephones.
The piece surveys mourning colors by country noting black as common in Europe and the US, white in China, blue or violet in Turkey, yellow in Egypt, and gray in Ethiopia. It links colors to natural causes like light deprivation and fallen leaves, and mentions customs such as hair cutting in the East versus hair growth in Ionians.
A May 5 luncheon in New York hosted by the Metric Association discussed slow metric adoption in English speaking lands. A key proposal urged both Britain and the United States to abandon current gallon standards and adopt a universal capacity unit to facilitate international trade.
The piece traces quirky origins of common names like butterfly and leopard, noting how etymology misleads about species. It explains that leopard arose from a mistaken cross idea between panther and lynx, a view once echoed in early zoological notes.
An old tragedian and his former sweetheart Rosa- Ind reconnect after years. The man confronts a circle of concern as she explains the “posse” is only asthma. He misreads the kiss, then mops his brow in disbelief, muttering about danger and fear. Alaska pulpwood could meet a third of U S demand from forests, while Venezuela buys about 5000 typewriters in six years per Commerce report.
In telephone practice the greeting Hello is fading as users prefer identifying themselves. Mrs Jones may answer with Mrs Jones speaking revealing a growing emphasis on a courteous telephone personality. The piece notes Bell once used Ahoy before Hello became standard in practical use.
A fragmented reminiscence traces wolf hunting in England to a French cry Au Joup Au Joupt. The piece suggests the cry sounded distant and morphed into hello through English speech habits with added h. It closes with a witty aside about a tunnel kiss line from a Penn State Froth joke.
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