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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Nov 30, 1912
Page
4
A prominent actor recalls a theatre moment when a mischievous youth in the gallery nearly disrupted a show. While performing a heavy melodrama the hero pretends to beg for freedom as villains threaten him. A kid in the top row yells a sharp taunt, breaking the scene and almost breaking the actors.
A reflective poem fragment contrasts ignorance and wisdom with lines about pain poverty and fate. It ponders universal suffering among all people, noting sorrow arrives unbidden and happiness leaves quickly while thought might threaten paradise. The excerpt cites Thomas Gray’s line about folly to be wise.
Bob Hull, famed Savannah raconteur, travels inland Georgia to Augusta for a golf match. Riding in a hack to a small town hotel, a curious old driver asks what kind of lodge Hull runs, prompting a quip about his curious luggage and a question.
A southern sewing machine agent drifted into the Seminole dominion and set up a machine in Tiger Tail's tent. The old chief watched, brushed him aside, then sat and pedaled the treadle, starting the wheel and finding that he...
A comic tale contrasts a man sealing a tent repair with his wives being sent packing, then a professor's wooing ends abruptly when a joke about a shoe dissolving the engagement reveals his absent mindedness that led to a second marriage proposal.
A humorous exchange frames a morning scene where a funny man jokes about time and law enforcement. The matter of fact person notes a policeman entering a side door and stopping a few minutes, implying a brief, surreal confrontation with time.
In a Cleveland Plain Dealer report a stout man and a shabbily dressed parson-like reader conspire over a corkscrew bargain. The ruse ends when the con artist duo exits at a station, and the conductor chalks up their teamwork as the country’s cleverest swindling pair.
A visitor in St Lo Manche finds no public bath house in town. Private baths are rare and limited to four liters of water. He asked at the hospital for a bath and received a written reply two days late, permitting it only if medical justification shows necessity. The note traveled across France and reached him back in Paris.
In Lady Dorothy Nevill’s reminiscences Victoria rebukes the duchess of the robes for lateness at a public ceremony. The empress of punctuality delays arriving, prompting the queen to remark and gift her own magnificent watch, threading it around the offender’s neck.
The article explains a method used by Turks to estimate time without watches. Locating two cardinal points, natives place hands with forefingers raised in opposite directions to observe the sun’s shadow. Morning and evening at known hours cause one finger to point at the sun, and the relative shadow lengths help estimate the hours between.
A posted notice from the To kyo art exhibition bans intoxicated visitors from entry and threatens retirement for those found inside. It forbids bringing parcels umbrellas sticks or similar items beyond a purse and prohibits dogs or similar beasts. It urges visitors to guard against theft.
A guest recalls sitting at the same table twenty five years earlier during an anniversary dinner. The conversation shifts to the neighbor's research into ancient Babylon and Professor Filtegende Biatter eagerly attempts to resume.
A Detroit Free Press snippet recalls a boastful line about inheriting money and a grim wish to inherit the caretaker skill. It also parodies a Duke of Wellington misstatement about murdered clergy in Ireland and tangles with humorous exchanges among boys, a family scene, and travel plans in a Town Topic fragment.
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