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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Oct 01, 1904
Page
1
The Wilmington Business School touts its business education as the best, claiming hundreds of graduates secured positions within four years. It highlights a tailored curriculum with a business planning course and shorthand program, taught by the proprietor, urging readers to request a catalog.
Harry N. Hackett will continue his regular visits to Denton and extend his patron list. Calls may be addressed to him care of Denton Journal. Satisfaction guaranteed, only good references.
The Major recounts a 1881 mission hunting moonshiners in Tennessee. A deadly night in a hut with snakes, a gun to his head, and a guiding girl leads to an escape but leaves his hair stark white. The girl is revealed as the narrator's wife.
A brief dialogue from Youth's Companion features Mr Meekins, Mr Wilson, and a rainy scene. Wilson, known as a poor provider, pleads for Meekins to stay for dinner, while Meekins declines, noting the rain but suggesting it might not be as bad as it looks.
The Kidder Independent ran a satirical piece claiming its paper is the greatest disseminator of thought and the most isodynamic sheet, in a playful echo of a Kansas City Star quip. The editor likens the publication to an Egyptian papyrus and asserts its bold role in news and opinion.
A passenger boat nears departure when a man rushes aboard offering to tell a tale. The crew and passengers, idle and eager for entertainment, listen as the storyteller recounts Chao Chao and 830000 troops crossing a single plank bridge, then stalls to mimic horse sounds, leaving the ending unfinished.
In a small New England village a popular woman’s funeral featured a hired drum corps. They played solemn music to the cemetery and, asked to play a livelier tune for the return, offered only “The Girl I Left Behind Me” which they knew, providing an unexpectedly cheerful procession home.
A Cleveland Leader tale shows a husband returning home while his wife asks what he has done all day. He says he has been working like a dog, and their family dog wakes from an afternoon nap, asks to be let out, and then spends an hour or two barking at the moon in the yard.
A dialogue reveals a man 6 feet 4 inches tall and 280 pounds is deemed highly prominent in a town of under 5,000 residents, as a woman confronts a claim about her father’s status. The Chicago Record-Herald notes the emphasis on physical stature to signify influence.
A girl asks her lover about the word Kismet in a newspaper headline. He explains the silent t makes it sound like Kiss me, and the couple shares a playful moment. The scene ends with Frank agreeing to comply with Nettie's playful request.
A Philadelphia colored man asks his employer for release to go south saying he is called to a church down there. He muses about becoming something whether pastor sexton or vestment maker, expressing a resolve to pursue a defined path. The anecdote highlights ambition and identity.
In Saltillo and nearby cemeteries excessive burial pits expose bones. A physician recalls asking a sexton for bones to study patients, offered payment, but was refused at a private graveyard. The sexton advised he could take bones from a public plot where the poor are buried, warning they may not suit the doctor's needs. The account is recounted as a Mexican Letter in the Galveston News.
Mr Hillyer, a heavy sleeper with burglar alarm feared, joked of a dream where an intruder triggered the alarm but took his watch and pocketbook. He discovered the theft had happened in fact when he retrieved his belongings, realizing the dream was real.
The San Francisco Bulletin quotes a speaker praising Deacon Snowball and his friendly neighbors. The speaker notes a watermill patch on one side and 400 chickens on the other, along with a deaf neighbor and a brother who attends church six nights a week, causing sleep disruptions.
In a Boston Transcript exchange Nellie recalls waiting behind a woman at a ticket window. She delayed the line for half an hour, then stayed longer, keeping not just the woman but an entire queue waiting as her form of revenge.
A Baltimore avenue boy aged six places his boots on their sides at bedtime. When asked why he explains the boots are tired from walking all day and must rest. The mother notes his imaginative mind and humane disposition as revealed in this gentle tale from the Philadelphia Ledger.
A convicted man begs mercy from the judge, asking to spare his wife from prison. The judge insists on separate confinement, noting the wife will go to the house of correction. The man replies that this is acceptable, fearing a shared cell.
Miss Inez Sent laments an opal ring given by Mr Cheeply while Miss Sharpe inspects it. The pair joke about luck with Miss Sharpe noting an imitation of bad luck as a lighter take on the superstition.
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