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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Nov 29, 1902
Page
3
A matron scorns a bachelor who refuses to marry. She jokes that Korean customs would curb his bachelor life, insisting marriage would bring him discipline, hair braided, quiet conduct, and limited rights, while he counters with comic defiance in this New York Tribune snippet.
A Denver Times item recounts Ohio governor William Allen, famed as the iron governor for his unyielding stance on clemency. On Thanksgiving Eve a wife pleaded for mercy for a jailed horse thief. a five year old girl tugged his sleeve, and he promised the pardon, then kissed the child and fulfilled the clemency by releasing the husband and father later that day.
The process describes two workers drawing out melted glass into a long rod by joining two hot bulbs. The rod is cooled, broken, annealed, and cut into fragments. Fragments are placed in a revolving drum with charcoal and plaster to soften perforated canes and form rounded beads without sticking.
The piece traces how Mrs Grundy became the archetypal gossip in culture. Originating in Thomas Morton's 1798 comedy Speed the Plow, she never appears but is repeatedly courted in Dame Ashfield's talks. The audience echoed the refrain What will Mrs Grundy say, turning her into a controlling, scandalous figure to avoid.
The story from Leslie's Weekly explains why wild ducks in Honan are protected. A widow and her son suffer harsh treatment until a wise man guides the emperor to send a letter via a wild duck, bringing fortune to the village and leading to royal reward and a decree that the wild duck be spared.
A young man enters the editorial room with a rough poem and a check for payment. The editor urges corrections and jokes that the check’s date amount and signature are optional, since it is given in rough form for the poet to fix. The humorous exchange ends with the young man promising more poems.
Historic notes recount immense buffalo herds across the frontier from St Louis and other ports, with annual robes shipments and long cattle drives on prairie trails. A study of 1000 pairs shows elder siblings living about six years longer on average, though birth timing may blur cause and effect.
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