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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Nov 12, 1927
Page
1
Poke from Breshtown tells of hard work paying off as he plans a four room hunter place on a future home site with wife Marigold. After a dramatic cattle rustle attempt, he outsmarts the bandits by hiding his money and proceeds with a calm, hopeful ride to Georgia.
An architect explains his design approval and jokes that hard work and money dominate differently. He notes hard work earns money, while the money controls spending, framing success as a balance of effort and fortune.
Anxious gossip centers on Old Lem Sawyer who has married a widow and now learns her first husband was a man he helped lynch two months ago. He fears she knows the past or married him for vengeance, and expects trouble any minute.
A reflective maxim on hypocritical judgment. It argues that people demand virtue from others while failing to scrutinize their own faults. The piece champions inward inspection over outward blame for moral improvement.
Rose Glenn, welcomed reluctantly by her husband Hugh's sisters, endures a chilly reception at the Glenn home. Mother Glenn distributes heirlooms as gifts, selecting Rose for a rosewood cabinet while resisting the prized luster pitcher. Rose gently declines the pitcher, earning a grudging, finally warm, acknowledgment from the old matriarch.
Boston merchants funded early North Pacific trade voyages. Captains Kendrick Gray led the Columbia and Lady Washington to Pacific waters, returning to Boston by 1790. Gray later explored Clayoquot Sound and built the Adventurer, naming the Columbia River on a 1702 voyage.
An elder in a small Scottish town learns he has a floating kidney after consulting a specialist. He asks his minister to have the prayers of the congregation, but the minister fears laughter at the mention. The elder retorts that there is nothing funny about a prayer for his condition, noting the prior Sunday’s misdirected prayer for loose flyers.
Uncle Joe Cannon recalls a Timeis circuit rider who loved hunting and souls. During a camp meeting he set a fox trap, watching it as he preached. The trap fell and he quipped in his sing song, urging the brethren to keep their minds on the text.
Horace Mann, renowned educator, is confronted by an insane man in Mann's study who challenges him to a fight. Mann replies with wit that he is a Mann by name and by nature, noting the odds are four against one. The exchange ends in humorous stalemate as the challenger insists.
A Detroit tourist photographed 4000 artworks in the National Gallery London in 27 minutes, beating the 1925 Buffalo native record by seven minutes. Arriving at 12 25 after a luncheon, he toured the Tower, Monument, Guildhall, St Pauls, shopped in the Strand, and planned visits to the British and South Kensington museums and the Wallace Collection.
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