09 Oct 1915
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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Oct 09, 1915
Page
1
This store offers Griffon Ultra Clothes and Kirschbaum Clothes, claimed to be the most distinctive ready to wear in the country. Prices for Griffon and Kirschbaum suits range from 12.50 to 25.00, with various styles and fabrics said to be unbeatable in value. Also promote the Hat That Makes a Hit Deligny priced at 2.50.
A Halloween party scheme at Mrs Edgarton’s country home drives Frank Edgarton and Alice Tisdale together. After a candlelit chase in the grounds a hidden romance blooms, and within a month they are engaged. The plan was orchestrated by the two mothers to spark a match.
A note explains the phrases Argus eyed meaning watchful and Hydra headed coming from the Hercules myth. It describes Argus with a hundred eyes placed on Juno and how his eyes were said to adorn the peacock tail. It also recounts the hydra and Hercules defeating it with each head slain two more growing back.
The common peanut grows in an original way as its shoots rise and the fruit gathers on a stiff stalk, then the stem bends and pushes the nut underground before ripening. Some say pigs’ fondness for nuts inspired this concealment behavior by the plant.
Elsie Harbeson argues against rushing to political rights for women while her fiancé Herbert Winston presses a satirical case. They debate duties of marriage and citizenship, ending with a playful kiss and a note on a harmonious, ever-changing domestic balance.
The frilled lizard of Queensland walks on hind legs on level ground and keeps its frill folded while running. When attacked it expands the neck frill to form a ruff, making the animal look formidable and causing attacking dogs to retreat from a frilled lizard at bay.
A Washington Star fragment recalls a young man recounting how Y offered his band to her. He asks if she accepted and she answered indirectly that as a bridge player she expects him to lay his hand on the table and be dummy.
A brief note explains that rubber comes from trees and shrubs growing in a narrow belt around the world within five degrees of the equator. It mentions the region’s ubiquity and the climate’s role in rubber production.
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