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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Nov 19, 1910
Page
5
Robert Spooner and Fats Gibson grew up together with contrasting temperaments and shared ambition. Spooner’s rapid rise followed by collapse amid a banking panic contrasts with Gibson’s steadier path and later wealth from wife saved funds. The tale tracks their marriages, rivalries between wives, and Spooner’s ultimate fall requiring compromise with creditors and altered life.
Gibson and Spooner, once close partners, grow distant as wealth widens social gaps led by Mrs Spooner. Spooner becomes prosperous and refuses to buy back the old home. They drift from friends to rivals, meeting in a cafe booth where they recall their youth and share a final moment of companionship before both die.
A tale from Judae recounts poetic justice where a man who swindled the speaker in an irrigation scheme dies of water on the brain. The anecdote frames poetic justice as a moral outcome linked to the swindler’s downfall.
A veteran lumberman recalls a camp supper scheme where Uncle Ned agreed to cook, while the crew waited on him. He directed tasks from gathering wood to washing potatoes, then revealed the meal was ready only after everyone had helped, turning the moment into a byword for easy living.
Ancient tale describes a phoenix the size of an eagle with a rainbow plumage and diamond eyes living for six hundred years. At death it builds a funeral pile, consumes itself, then rises anew from ashes. The phoenix honors its parent with a myrrh ball, and at Helopolis the sun temple records a 600 year cycle since the last ceremony.
A correspondent from Pontivy, Brittany, reports a hair market where Breton girls willingly sell their tresses. Purchasers travel the countryside, paying about 20 sous or a cotton handkerchief per head, with caps hiding hair from childhood onward. The practice stems from fashion that keeps heads covered, masking any loss. The article notes the buyers earn substantial profits from these trips.
A Baltimore American quip notes Jack found fruit from a lecture, meeting a girl he knew and making a date, calling her a peach in light humor. The item reflects social shorthand and evening entertainment gossip in a compact quote.
A satirical Jo Harper's Weekly piece by John Kendrick Bangs offers lighthearted navigation advice for passengers on a liner. It playfully warns against interfering with captains, suggests soothing a groaning lady with a lullaby, and jokes about avoiding dinner table chaos by sliding banisters and using two leads to navigate discomfort on a voyage.
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