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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Oct 10, 1925
Page
3
A McClure Newspaper Syndicate assertion on hands as the builders of nations. It argues that diligent hands, unafraid of grime, shaped prosperity and character while idleness and indolence breed misery and crime. Each hand's unique aptitude drives progress and lasting fame.
Jerome KK in Harper's Magazine depicts a tense rehearsal where actors and producers clash over stage directions. The author wins a small victory as the actor insists on a placement that best conveys passion, and the debate shifts to a new crisis about form and realism during a father’s imagined curse.
A Nature Magazine summary notes that totems are not exclusive to western and northern Indians but appear in various forms worldwide. It explains beliefs linking totems to family myths, descent from animals or objects, and shared crests guiding welfare, with prohibitions on intermixing within same crest. Some regions report Christian influence weakening totem worship.
The article discusses how Norse gods influenced English weekday names during Norse rule. It explains Mars became Tiw's Day, Mercury became Woden's Day, Jupiter became Thor's Day, Venus became Freya's Day, and questions whether Saturn's Day changed. The Sun and Moon days are noted as obvious.
Irvin S Cobb tells of a Charleston fishing trip where a hired Black guide faults the line of bait and tide and admits the fish are not in the water. The narrator, posing as an expert, probes reasons for the poor catch while noting the guide's stubborn confidence.
A green recruit at a southern cantonment in 1917 is halted by an officer of the day who asks for the meaning of vigilant. The exchange reveals the guard’s unfamiliarity with military terms, prompting the corporal to explain that vigilance means alertness, though the chain of questions shows the rookie’s learning process.
Tom Wyatt of Holmes County Mississippi was famed as a generous planter who kept Belmont as a refuge for any visitor. A dissipated young lawyer once stayed there and claimed to have read the Bible cover to cover many times. Wyatt pondered a Delta saying about knowing the multiplication table.
Two confidence men befriend a wealthy man and coax him to a private duck shoot. Overnight blinds a decoy stand set in reeds. Dawn reveals the gullible marksman firing into the wooden flock while his partner notes they are shooting the boosters.
In Chicago a vaudeville comedian wed his bride and immediately left her room to celebrate with two congenial friends. Hours later he phoned his hotel to speak with his wife, answering in a husky voice that he had just made an arrangement for dinner and asked how things were.
Cheerups and his friends meet a sad gorilla named Charly Gorilla in the jungle. They diagnose his fear of rain from his coat and hair growth pattern, then devise a simple method to keep him dry by letting water roll off his arms and shoulders. Charly thanks them and plans to tell others about the trick.
The 861 mile underground and aerial New York Chicago cable is the world’s longest with 250 telephone circuits and 600 telegraph channels. Construction spanned seven years at an estimated 26 million dollars. It forms part of a broader plan linking major eastern centers with cables from Boston to Washington and extending toward St. Louis and Cleveland.
An old report notes experiments on music and medicine rotation. Harp or mandolin tunes revive tired muscles while violoncello music weakens heartbeats in nervous listeners. An American doctor claimed mental troubles could be cured by regular classical selections, with jealousy grief overwork and homicidal mania among the conditions cited.
A country woman is said to live longer on average than city dwellers and rural husbands. Mortality statistics show better death rates in the country despite more complete death reporting among elites. Health protection differences and urban congestion influence outcomes.
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