29 Nov 1924
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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Nov 29, 1924
Page
1
From now till the holidays shoppers are urged to view store windows for gift ideas for Dad Mother and children. The piece promotes a large assortment of useful gifts and advises buying early and carefully. It notes that the best gift is well chosen rather than the most expensive.
Fall goods feature soft suede like gloves imported from Saxony. Hand fits praised and several novelty styles with torn cuffs. Color options include pearl fawn covert beaver sand besides black and white. Prices range from 1.00 to 2.50 dollars.
The article promotes AH Leather Shoes priced from five to nine dollars. It markets wide trousers friendly footwear with back and brown short vamp and long style variations. The shoes promise fit, durability, and value for the pocketbook.
A listing of plain color flannels in blues grays and tans sold at 1.75. Stripes and checks priced 2.75 and 3.50. Poiret twills in black and navy 3.50. Serges and crepes in all shades 1.00 to 4.00. Colored linens for holiday fancy work 1.00 per yard, especially suited to hand drawing.
The new overcoats feature skirts slightly longer and collars narrower with fuller bodies. In soft fleecy plaid-back fabrics, gray and tan shades, they embody quality crafting with full belts half belts and box back styles in large assortments for a stylish look.
New boys suits promise durability with two pants per suit and reinforced seams at all stress points. The garments are marketed as offering top value and more, aiming to meet high demands for hard wear in daily use.
A young man, entangled by love and social pressure, meets Diana Arliss under a beech tree by the Hudson. The tree speaks, warning that Diana may accept wealth over true love, and urges the man to choose honesty over manipulation as an urgent promise tests his heart.
A preacher counsels Uncle Ben to heed conscience amid temptation in his second-hand store. He admits he failed when a customer offered money for a dress he hadn’t expected to sell, confessing he could hear only the cash register. The tale contrasts moral voice with greed.
On the Empress of Tasmania a quarrelsome couple, Julia Devers and Allan, face separation while a Russian schemes against Julia’s son Tommy in steerage. When Tommy falls overboard, Allan dives to save him and a shark looms. Julia leaps after the pair, drives off the shark, and the trio are rescued, confirming their shared peril and fragile bond.
A weary college-bred hobo named Weary Waldron is lured into a $25 scam at the Goldbrick theater. Tar and feathers are applied during the last act of A Lovers Lament, but the show is canceled when the leading lady falls ill. A telegram halts the stunt and Waldron flees, becoming a half man half ostrich figure seen across the countryside.
A friend of Mark Twain borrows the overcoat to attend a funeral and jokes about its fate. A London scene on Claponam road features a traveler remarking on why there are many funerals that day, calling it an unlucky Friday and sparking shared laughter.
The Rehoboth Sunday Herald reports clouds differ in viscosity and structure with temperature and pressure. Ground clouds diffuse, higher clouds form ropy and granular layers, with fixed cloud levels and clear air spaces as described. Lowest clouds stay beneath 6,000 feet, sometimes hugging the land on stormy days and dimming daylight.
A humorous Lancashire anecdote contrasts two tacklers in Sunday dress with a coat hanger gag. The tale portrays the tackler as the butt of the joke, delivering a lighthearted reflection on cleverness and misfortune in a village street setting.
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