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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Oct 02, 1915
Page
4
A biblical analysis of Ahab and Jezebel's plot to seize Naboth's vineyard, framing covetousness as the core sin. It links Ahab's disobedience to the commandment and Elijah's rebuke, urging heart change to defeat greed and idolatry.
A visitor’s guide to a Finnish bath describes the ritual: undress, lie in a hammock above a cold water tub. A red hot brick is tossed in to produce intense steam, followed by a plunge into cold water. The ordeal ends with re dressing amid exhaustion and reflection.
The article explains blight spread by a microscopic germ in trees, noting hold-over cankers overwinter in pear trees more than apples and that infected sap oozes in spring, attracting insects and bees which disseminate germs. Control requires cutting out all hold-over cankers from pomaceous trees between late summer and spring, sterilizing tools, and avoiding fertilizers or summer tillage to reduce susceptibility.
A cut line from a Woman's Home Journal piece features a teacher asking Helen to define a myth and the student replying with a humorous mishearing about a woman without a husband bond. The excerpt also shows a dialogue about names and encouragement to use last names in casual address.
In an 18th century Prussian duel tale, Captain von Gottschalk and Captain Herman clash after a water spill insults. Frau Catherine von Ballenstein, posing as Herr Schomberg, stages her lover’s cooldown and ultimately duels him, aiding the plot with cunning and sword skill.
A trapper at Nootenty Lake recounts guiding Theodore Roosevelt in the Selkirks a grizzly sighting. Roosevelt, near fifty feet away, calmly changed glasses before firing, earning praise from the guide as the bravest man he had ever seen. The tale, told through colorful reminiscence, attributes cool nerve and quick actions to Roosevelt.
In the European quarter of Shanghai a block is torn up for a macadam road with a sign reading Look Out For the Steam Roller. A Chinese merchant companion laughed heartily at the sign, comparing it to the loud steam roller and remarking on foreigners’ peculiar ways.
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