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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Nov 25, 1893
Page
1
A clipped ad boasts unbeatable prices on suits and overcoats with offerings at 10 12 15 and 25 dollars. It highlights an interesting midrange line at 15 dollars valued higher elsewhere and promises superior goods and specials.
A short ad urges fathers to dress their boys with pride and offers knee pants suits and overcoats at 2.50, 3 and 5 dollars. Over fifty styles priced at 5 dollars are advertised for selection.
An early 20th century ad highlights fall hats with derbies at 1.50 and Youman Hats carrying premium status. The piece shifts to a sentimental poem praising mothers, urging them to rest and enjoy simple pleasures, framed in nostalgic domestic verse from Youth's Companion.
A department advertises a larger stock than two stores and prices that shame competitors. Comfortable underwear 50c per garment. Our Matchless Dress Shirt at 50c shows high quality.
An essay warns mothers to teach children not to handle strange animals and details how cats and especially rats spread diseases such as scarlet fever and diphtheria. It notes cats can carry infections through litters and household contact, urging caution to prevent epidemics.
A Toronto World report describes a man who taunted his wife about using a revolver she insisted on owning. After the husband left, the wife fired as he descended stairs, wounding him fatally or severely, and neighbors found them shocked and bleeding. the husband will be lame for life and likely deterred from further taunts.
Clara and Lottie Temple of Heath, Massachusetts, inherited a 100 acre farm from their father and paid off large debts with hard work and careful management. They purchased new machinery, kept a herd of fine milk cows, and provide a comfortable home for their widowed mother. They paid 300 dollars for field work last year. The piece notes Massachusetts has 103 women farmers.
A fishing party near Piseco Lake in Hamilton county recounts a 13 pound pickerel caught after a larger one attempted to swallow a smaller hook victim. Everest, Professor Spencer, and the writer deliver a dramatic tale of a sharklike pursuit, a watch recovered from a fish, and a joyful reunion at the Adirondack hotel with a Albany social guest.
A correspondent reports a newspaper note tracing the Deluge to 1700 B C, with the flood from Dec 7 1056 B C lasting 377 days. Mount Ararat rests May 0 1055 B C and Noah departs Dec 18 next year, plus a remark on physiognomy by a London lecturer.
The scope of the hotel trade in the United States is vast with more than 56 000 hotels. This figure excludes inns taverns and apartment houses, though many apartment houses operate as hotels sharing kitchens and dining spaces.
In the run up to the royal wedding gossip spread that George of Wales secretly wed. The London Gentlewoman counters the rumor as absolutely untrue, noting the sovereign’s consent and church authority ruled it out.
A remote inland farm tale from Lewiston Journal recounts Aunt Abby S who, after her husband’s death, raised three children, cared for a frail grandfather, paid the mortgage for years, and left the property debt free. Her brothers’ doubts contrast with her steadfast endurance and thrift. The piece notes another report on Stromboli’s volcanic activity and early vulcanology insights.
A Longman magazine excerpt describes the Atlantic Ocean with striking figures: area about 80 million square miles, depth above 14 000 feet, and an implied containment within the Pacific three times over. It also notes a colossal hypothetical sphere 5033 miles in diameter and mocks haste in formal writing as vulgar.
A Chicago Mail account follows a penniless chance seeker at the Columbia theater, near bankruptcy on a last half dollar, hustling for two seats while a sharp dressed crowd buys quickly. He lurches between doubt and resolve, interacts with Mag and Jess in torn up plans, and ends tailed by police after a bungled attempt to gain admission.
A Brooklyn Eagle explanation defines waterspouts as cone shaped vapor columns forming over water, sometimes on land, descending from dense clouds and rising water to create a spiral column. It attributes the phenomenon to rapid gyration of air causing a vacuum and differing upper air temperatures driving the whirling motion.
A Madras native described the phrase India for the Indians by a Lord Roberts question. He warned that opening all cages would lead to a grand fight among animals, with the tiger destroying others. He identified the tiger as the Mohammedan from the north, arguing a supreme power is needed to hold diverse races together.
Diverse views on whistling appear across cultures from Arabia to Tonga with claims it defiles purity or offends divine beings. A London Tit-Bite note highlights the Jaffa Jerusalem railway as a cross border venture: a Jerusalem native secured the concession, a French company built it, US engines and Belgian rails power the line, and British tourists form most of the traffic.
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