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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Nov 11, 1893
Page
1
A local retailer advertises stylish knee pants suits and overcoats from 2.50 to 5, a large fall hat stock, Men's derbys at 1.50, Youman Hats exclusive, and undergarments at 50c. The ad contrasts fashion offers with a quoted inspirational poem about doing one’s best as a small child recites verse and a father speaks of effort.
Lang Lumford and Matt King, rival suitors for Nellie Tobin, plan to outdo each other across the river in Texas like neighbors within a day’s ride. A flood strands them. Lang rescues Matt with rope and courage, revealing Nellie has married Ned Spriggs, leaving the pair to reflect on their folly.
The piece satirizes booksellers who form possessives with writers’ names before titles creating odd phrases such as Berkeley's Wealth and Welfare Lalor's Money and Morals and Wynter's Subtle Brains and Lissom Fingers. It notes humor from sellers like King’s Interest Tables and Poems by James Gay with a fictitious Poet Laureate of Canada.
A Cass avenue boarding house landlady explains a knotty question to the star boarder at length over coffee. He declares all is clear except one thing. He blurts that thing is the coffee, prompting the landlady to bounce from the dining room.
A very old monument at Farringdon church Berks remembers a soldier who lost his left leg and whose stump bore a cannon ball inserted at the top as a grim memorial.
A Sioux Sketch describes Flying-By's wife asking for a small hand mirror. She reflects sunlight toward a group of Indians, prompting Flying-By to dash to the tent. He jokes that her prudence saved him from gambling away his money, noting the incident amused him.
A quirk from Youth's Companion recalls judges in transit shaping decisions in unlikely settings. Judge Drummond rode a parlor car from Milwaukee to Chicago to hear a receiver motion in a railroad case. In California, Judge Searls rode from Nevada toward Plumas on muleback with counsel to Mount Eureka, a swift trek ending in a decided opinion.
The article notes Bangkok as a night oriented society where meetings occur after dark and locals retire around 4 am. It mentions a semi European theater, outdoor native entertainments, and a pleasure loving Siamese culture. It warns debt leads to lifelong servitude, and debtors have no appeal. Drunkards cannot testify in courts. Buddhist priests in yellow robes are common and entering the priesthood offers a liberal, easy life.
The Baltimore American explains that in an open vessel liquids like cider boil away as steam while retaining strength, whereas in a retort the higher pressure raises boiling points so that only pure water distills. If alcohol is present, spirits leave first. under high heat, all fluids reach vapor and escape.
A jaunty actress visits an uptown hardware store and buys “a pair of nippers and half a dozen 18 inch gas burner tips.” The excerpt explains traveling actors carry these tools to defeat hotel gas burners that use cotton to impede flame. Landlords in small towns are staged to fail as burners are swapped. The tale ends with the actor leaving as he found them, moving on to outwit the next host.
An old home remedy recommends placing wood ashes in water and soaking a sore finger to cure a felon, with Lobelia tincture cited as a preventive. The article also notes English modistes narrowing skirts daily and dressmakers abandoning stiff materials, praising crepon as a comfortable fabric for the season.
Fragmentary note shows Beston Transcript praising Dibble-It for taking charge of The Aurora House, with confident assertion that no other paper should match its quality.
An English journalist Adams commits suicide with a revolver after a terminal illness. His wife witnesses and does not intervene, later saying she would be a coward if she acted. The coroner returns death by own action, raising moral questions about responsibility and mercy in dying, with debates on whether friends should prolong suffering or intervene. The Chicago Post notes possible moral conflict and legal implications.
A London lawyer tests a new boy by leaving a £5 note under a weight. The boy returns with a half crown and a receipt for a £4 17s 6d bill that allegedly slipped the lawyer’s mind for four years. The tale ends with the boy fleeing the scene as the law business takes a hit.
Monterey and Santa Clara county report a weed named rattlesnake weed. It grows about six inches tall with a red stalk and slender leaves. The flower head produces seeds with sharp barbs that irritate passers by. Early settlers used strong tea of the weed to treat sheep bites, often saving the animals.
A New York Times report describes the elder Richelieu’s brother killing himself after parental rebuke. It notes the cardinal’s sister was insane and Richelieu himself suffered insanity episodes, including a period when he acted as a horse without later memory.
A terse exchange unfolds in New York Weekly as a customer asks if the soap is edible and the dealer notes a poet who writes about the soap earns ten thousand dollars yearly. The moment captures tension between curiosity and ritualized commerce.
A girl at a recent dancing party asserts she would not dance with a certain suitor though she does not dislike him. The Springfield Graphic notes the remark as an example of a distinction without difference. The piece references Cardinal Wolsey in a quotation about zeal and service.
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