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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Nov 17, 1928
Page
6
R L Jones computes that if one million people talked steadily for an hour and a half their voices could generate enough heat to boil a cup of tea. The remark, noting even politicians, reflects a playful take on energy transfer.
Mrs. Sea Gull leads a flock in a joyous song as they ride the waves toward boats. Sea gulls laugh and whisper to the waves while Mr. Sea Gull recounts boats, storms, and cheeky waving from people on shore. The tale ends with waves roaring their love for the sea gulls.
A string of old time jokes and puns about ships, oysters, food, clothing, and everyday objects. It features questions and punchlines about a floor in a ship, why oysters stay silent, country jokes in South America, orange church steeples, fashion, tin soldiers, the Fourth of July, doctors for fainting women, sponges and fashionable men, and banana peels.
In class a teacher asks what a goldfish is. A Ute girl answers that it is a sardine that has got very rich.
A Rainy day incident in New York details a man hurving up from the subway who slips on brush left by a street cleaner and falls into a puddle. He rises angered and notices a toothpaste advertisement claiming the paste comes out of the tube and lays flat on the brush, reported by the Rehoboth Sunday Terald.
Court auction lists Parcel 1 on Gay street between Sixth and Seventh with 50 ft frontage and 190 ft depth as Lot 83 Block A from the Stevens chain of title to Joanna McShane and Georgianna Gravatt by deeds dated 1897 and 1919. Parcel 2 adjoins with 50 ft frontage and 25 ft alleys to the north and south and bounds by McShane and Gravatt properties, improved by a two story frame dwelling and barn. Terms: half cash, remainder on ratification, purchaser bears title papers. Assignees Wilbert L Merriken and L. F. Covey.
The Farmers and Merchants National Bank of Cambridge sues Nathaniel B. Harper and Agnes H. Harper, now Agnes H. George. The order ratifies and confirms unless shown otherwise by January 3 next, with publication in Caroline county newspapers for four weeks before December 3, 1928. Report shows sale amount four thousand dollars. Clayton Horsey, Clerk.
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