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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Nov 21, 1925
Page
2
In Miggles Alley a ten year old bootblack known as Shingles saves his baby brother from a fall. He ties a rope to a clothes hook, signals fire crews, and a rooftop drama draws a cosmopolitan crowd as engines and gongs approach. The scene unfolds amid immigrant neighborhoods and urban bustle.
A dramatic alley rescue by hook and ladder crews brought a silent crowd to fear and hope as a small child dangled above the pavement. The climber nearly reached the infant but the child slipped free, caught briefly on a rope, then fell, striking clothes and vanishing into the crowd. An elderly Irish woman cried out in astonishment upon spotting the almost naked child crawling through a window, declaring the sight miraculous before being reassured it was earthly.
A London Tit-Bits report describes long burning underground fires fueled by coal and dry peat in sites from Ayr to Shrewsbury. It cites Dudley fumes and burning peat soil near Halsall Moags, with landscapes igniting for years and even trees collapsing from subterranean flames.
Everett P. Wheeler told a women's union that Americans seek intellectual pleasure in pretty bathtub images, while a sightseeing bus scene in Boston shows a guide being interrupted by a lively passerby who demands variety after praising Oliver Wendell Holmes.
The Milwaukee Journal notes a faded memory of Fiji Islanders with a tall shirt fluttering form and recalls a shift in times as locals reportedly want a Rotary club with a slogan misinterpreted as profits by some.
Black and white shelducks migrate from Holland to Sandringham Royal Domain to lay eggs in rabbit burrows. After hatching, the young birds trek across marshes to the Wash, then waddling cross the Dersingham Wolferton railway causes delays as drivers yield to the spring visitors.
The porcupine shows a voracious omnivorous diet, nearly equaling a goat in breadth. It gnaws items with salt traces, including gun stocks, paddles, and other gear touched by perspiring hands, and even leather such as shoes gloves and hat sweat bands.
A reflective verse asserts that conscience guides each person to the right path despite hesitation. It contrasts the pleasant and easy routes with the harder, morally correct road, arguing that inner judgment suffices to decide the proper course.
Una, an Irish name linked to famine but popularized by Spenser as a symbol of the one true church, is described as queen of the fairies in Ormond. The piece notes its modern Irish usage, anglicized forms, the pearl talisman, and Tuesday as a lucky day with a lucky number.
A motor car salesman showcases a showroom speed car to a prospective buyer who dislikes crawling under vehicles. The sales agent boasts the car is up to date and never needs crawling, then reveals the mechanism automatically flips the car upside down if any fault occurs.
Meerschaum, a white creamy magnesium silicate also called meerschauum, forms from petrified sea foam. Best quality comes from Aula Minor with deposits near Seperdje, twenty miles from Eskichehir. Soft when dug, it hardens as it dries and is shipped to Vienna, London, and Paris for carved tobacco pipes, many highly artistic.
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