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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Nov 13, 1909
Page
2
,page header reads Centor Journal Page 2 Howard Melvin Melvin Johnson publishers Saturday morning November 13 1909. The fragment indicates edition information with names and publishing staff. Limited readable text provides no article specifics or events.
The piece argues Democrats should push a constitutional amendment on negro suffrage, noting last year's defeat did not reject the principle. It cites experts on mental health urging humane care with outdoor work and trained supervision, and discusses crop forecasts and sanitation advances. Maryland election trends, local option debates, and Crothers' push for statewide Crawford county voting reforms are noted.
The piece covers party strategy and suffrage debates led by Democrats including Governor Crothers, plus a report on wireless telephony trials on an Erie line train near Newark and South Paterson. It notes Thanksgiving plans, the reopening of Maryland Hospital for Women, and Taft’s return from a long White House trip.
The Tri State Packers Association covering New Jersey Delaware and Maryland reveals agents gathered information on each state's pack. The three state pack was enormous but only a small percent sold with Baltimore City included the pack up about 4 percent from last season. Holdings equal about 16 percent of total pack and likely insufficient to meet demand until next season. Delaware and Eastern Shore Maryland posted their largest packs ever while New Jersey and Baltimore districts saw declines. Western association also reported a drop.
The Maryland Horticultural Society issued the program for its twelfth annual meeting at the Fifth Regiment Armory in Baltimore on December 2 and 3. Officials report the society is thriving despite spring frosts and drought. speakers from other states are expected to energize the horticultural revival. Vice President J Spencer Lapham of Goldsboro is noted among the leadership.
In sad but loving remembrance of dear father Mr Nathaniel Melvin who departed this life November 10 1907 aged seventy eight years Dear father has gone to dwell above the skies To be forever with his God and rest in Paradise God wanted one more angel to join his happy band And so he bent with loving smiles and took our father's laid Although our hearts with sorrow bleed And feel so much distress Protection he will find in Him And be forever blessed By his daughter Exizaucru
The item notes twenty cars of corn from Tilghman Harvey’s Burrsville lot weighed thirty five pounds after English sparrows ate twenty one inches from the ends. It also mentions R W Carroll near Bethlehem growing White Star potatoes with a remarkable yield, with 23 large tubers filling a tomato basket.
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