12 Oct 1889
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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Oct 12, 1889
Page
1
An advertisement lists ORGANS JrtTo Surro & Co residing at 19 KE Balto St Baltimore Md and J E Nicnors as salesman in Seaford Del indicating a equipment sale or dealer network. The fragment identifies businesses and a sales representative in the organ trade.
Steamers depart Trusborough at 10 a m Potter's Landing 1 p m Medfords 4 p m Trappe 8 p m every Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri stopping at landings and arriving in Baltimore next morning Hillsborough to Potter's Landing Saturdays 6 p m return from Light St Wharf Mon Tue Wed Thu 7 p m Fri Sat 9 p m to Trappe Burnett's Clark's Wrights Medford's Lloyd's Dover Bridge Kingston McCarty's Ganeys Potter's Landing Coward's Point Covey's Hillsborough freight received daily until 6 p m A R BEAVEN Agent Vier 5 Light St Baltimore B G Stravins Agent Potter's Landing
A local medical professional extends services to Denton residents and nearby communities. He attends patients at the Smith & Son drug store on Main Street when not engaged in other professional duties.
A digest of stories contrasts London cabby codes with American travelers seen as easy marks. It pluses a Chicago Herald view. recounts an 18 pence fare dispute resolved by a brave American and police presence. The piece shifts to Magna Charta history, detailing King John's charter, its documents, seals, and the fate of original manuscripts in British archives.
The Portland Oregonian notes that the name Tacoma arose from Theodore Winthrop’s 1862 book The Canoe and the Saddle. Winthrop, traveling in 1852–53, described Puget Sound and a supernatural tale of a snow white peak. The Yakima Indians may have used the term for mountains, and Tacoma the city adopted the name from his work. Winthrop died early in the Civil War, and his book appeared posthumously.
A lady scientist using a sensitive substance with a phoniedoscope records air disturbance from sung notes. She spreads colored powder on a membrane placed at trumpet’s base and, as tones vary, powder difuses into flower and plant shapes. The process, projecting into glass, draws scientific notice.
A curious document in Judge Gorman's private office in New York asserts an original commission from John Hancock dated Oct 10 1776 to John Paul Jones. The handwriting imitates Hancock’s round script and Jones’s bold signature, suggesting a likely forgery.
Sciatica remains one of the most obstinate ailments for physicians to treat though a cure is possible in time. It is a neuralgia of the sciatic nerve causing hip thigh and leg pain. Causes include cold exposure lifting constipation and local injuries. Remedial measures span narcotic injections electricity blistering freezing nerve stretching and various internal remedies. Patience tests patients as treatment often requires trying many expedients before success.
A German defendant faced an Irish mob jury in a man slaughter trial. An inexperienced lawyer rallied a defense fund promising $1,000 for a manslaughter verdict. The jurors, all Irish except one German, favored acquittal, and the defense earned the money only after triumph. The German confessed the mock trial difficulty.
The Waterville Senti nel notes East Vassalboro has an elderly resident who has never ridden in a railroad car nor entered a stage coach. Another 84 year old has never worn stockings or underclothing. Uncle John, during a cold Kennebec wave, sat without stockings while others toasted blue yarned feet at fires, yet made no complaint. Bogus Turquoises in Nijni-Novgorod fair sold by Persian traders are nearly all false. about 100000 turquoises sold in six to seven years yield only around 10000 genuine stones. Imitations are described as marvelously clever.
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