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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Oct 06, 1923
Page
6
Lightweight topcoats in gabardine and tan and grey herring bone. Heavier coats with or without belts in tans greys and browns. Blue black and brown pencil stripes grey and blue worsteds and soft finish casimeres with fuller coat and wider trousers.
A 27 acre parcel described as lying 1 to 2 miles from Denton on the Denton and Greensboro State Stone road at the intersection with the Denton Burrsville Harrington Stone road. Zoned for agricultural use with potential for development at a rural edge location.
Polly wears a gown studded with purple beads and finds a note offering to return lost beads. Arthur Norton, a college professor, reveals the beads were a prank that blossomed into a romance at a university dance, proving small coincidences can shape fate.
Cable splicers do not learn this work quickly. It takes about three years to become an expert, with recruits alternating between school and gang sites for a year. The piece notes the immense skilled labor behind the telephone system, citing 7,400,000 soldered connections in New York City’s switching system and 124 central offices, all done by hand.
Davidon Herron reports at a Pittsburg dinner a playful exchange ridiculing Higginbotham Brown, noting he hides bad strokes by playing alone. A new caddie jokes that a club gentleman plays worse than Brown herself.
A college student stole a parrot from a town, swinging the cage while strolling the street. He explained to a passing professor that it was a lark, but the bird pecked him hard. The professor quipped about the student’s knowledge of birds.
A concise meditation on how small details, when studied with zeal, become meaningful. It argues that ordinary material, shaped by purpose and personality, can transform into something valuable, like beads awaiting a string to form a jewel.
A stern, unshaven man is hired by a brisk cafeteria manager who offers a lavish menu. The manager promises a white coat and work, insisting the man can choose anything from steaks to weakfish. The newcomer pauses, then requests weakfish, illustrating the line about “that kind of man.”
A campus article describes a self service fountain pen ink machine at University of Chicago filling stations. A penny starts the mechanism delivering ink to pens via a reservoir and dropper, with a wiper to fix spills. The system supports self filling and traditional droppers, offering a quick fix for dry pens.
The article surveys old beliefs linking cats to weather signs. It notes that washing signals good weather, while licking against the grain or sitting by the fire signals bad, and recalls sailors fearing cats aboard ships. It mentions phrases like cats paws and the cat’s nose for winds.
Star Island near New Hampshire hosts a nightly religious service at a stone church built in 1800. For 26 years Unitarians and Congregationalists have used the shrine where fishermen families prayed for loved ones. Each night at 10 o clock lines of worshipers bring lanterns to the wall, bow heads, and sing hymns.
Hoffy enters the club ragged after a hard evening. Cuthbert asks what happened. Boffy says neo poker with ladies in the game ends it. A girl believed four of a kind beats all, insists on a big pot with four spades.
In a fragment from a dramatic scene, the old tragedian meets his former sweetheart, Rosa iid, now an elder woman. After a tense embrace, he confronts her with anger about a Boise he believes she hides, only to learn it is asthma. He sighs and whispers a relieved Heavener as he lifts his brow.
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