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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Nov 18, 1893
Page
1
A local retailer promotes boys and girls dress outfits with knee pants suits and overcoats priced from 2.50 to 25 dollars. Features a large fall hat selection with Youman Hats and Derbys at 1.50 to 2.50, plus shirts, underwear, and matchless dress shirts at 50 cents.
A narrator recalls reading of the City National Bank of L Ky robbery, teller Harry W Swope’s disappearance with 90000 in notes, and a late night misadventure on a New York to Kentucky journey. A staged escort, a supposed reward, and a staged capture attempt unravel as the traveler awakens to find the valise gone and a stranger vanished with his baggage.
In a crowded Third Avenue L train at Twenty eighth Street two women of different colors exchange insults over seating. A stout Irish woman argues with a darker passenger, both refusing to yield. A guard threatens to arrest them as tempers flare until Eighty ninth Street when the Irish woman exits.
In Bodak near Cairo the narrator and Kellar the magician witness Abalani the fakir perform a climbing trick with a boy named Akli using a rope that defies explanation. A second ascent ends with Akli vanished and a camera shutter revealing the fakir’s eerie control.
A poem by M. Farningham in Christian Advocate contemplates a neighbor's boy as both challenge and promise. It pictures a lively, courageous child whose mixed virtues provoke hope, fear, and a wish that more readers would pray for him to become a force for good.
A London Globe note mocks Shanghai youths adopting masher dress and foreign habits, describing high collars foreign foods and mixed-gender living. The piece contrasts this with English language schools and cites early electric lighting prophecies from 1823 via Professor Meinach, as recounted by Baltimore American.
In a morning chat Mr Tarbox recalls Uncle Jake stating that a fall knocked out seven senses, not five. He adds there are horse sense, mule sense and common sense, claiming only a few people truly possess it. The piece features Harper’s Young People tone and rural Southern dialect.
A Washington Star joke about Braggins hunting sparked amusement. A Baltimore shopworker produced a steel shaving 60 feet long, curling into a 1/8 inch tube with 7,550 turns. A thunderbolt near Dijon killed about 1,000 fish. Uncle Ben Churchill of Galesburg, aged 102, rode with Fulton and held a Washington medal. Astronomers note we move through space at roughly 80 miles per second. A joke exchange about a Modern Adonis ends with a quip on dancing and nerves.
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