J C Godwin Co Fall and Winter Opportunity
The new department store offers fresh seasonal goods in latest styles at low prices. Emphasizes new stock and attractive pricing aimed at pleasing customers.
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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Oct 12, 1901
Page
1
Our Domestic Department Special Bargains Expanded
Our Domestic Department advertises Apron Ginghams and table linen deals with low prices on unbleached and damask pieces. It touts large selections of calicoes, dinnette sets, percales, comforts, blankets, and hats for children, highlighting new goods and discounts across many items.
Dress Goods Sale Brings Black Goods Low Prices
The store announces a large stock of new dress fabrics with Black Dress Goods a specialty. Prices range from 25 cents to 1.25 dollars per yard with singles like crepon at 75 cents. French flannels, Velvets, and Silks are offered in multiple shades at 60 to 85 cents per yard. Shoppers urged to visit before buying a new dress.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Easton
Hosiery and winter underwear sale offer
Try our Ladies Children and Gent s 10 15 and 26 cent Hesiery None better made for the money Remember we can give you Winter Underwear for men women and children at 26c 50c 1 00 and 1 25 that you can not get the same goods nowhere out here for the same money
Bargain Linen Goods and Shirts Sale Notice
Advertises full bleached Turkish towels at 10, 12 cents and 5 cent handkerchiefs, embroidered handkerchiefs at 25 for 12 cents, Eclipse shirts at 1 each, fall neck ties at 25 cents. Claims price comparisons and value for money.
Shoe Catalog Ad Promises Value and Free Shine
An old styled notice touts best shoes at low prices and free shine with purchase. It mentions a 3.00 shoe and Hess Shoe at 3.75, plus Queen Quality ladies’ shoes at 5.00. Readers are urged to call for a catalog and request a ticket.
Our Clothing Department Offers Wide Suit and Coat Selection
Our Clothing Department promotes its large assortment of men’s boys’ and children’s suits and overcoats. It claims the best styles, fit, and low prices with tailor made pants and a vast range from 25 cents to 750 dollars, inviting customers to visit and preview.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Easton
Our Carpet and Window Shade Department Sale Notice
A local store advertises carpets from cheapest to velvet, overstocked on matting with bargains not obtainable elsewhere. Special prices on curtains, 6 cent curtains now 25 cents and 16 cent curtains now 10 cents, inviting customers to visit the old stand with new stock.
It Is Never Too Late Summer Novel Ties Sale
It is never too late to buy our Summer Novel ties. Owing to the cold spell early in the spring season we had but a short while to dispose of our stock and, as our rule is never to carry over goods from one season to another, we will make a swift clearance.
Song of the River by Charles Kingsley
Poem fragment depicting a clear cool river scene with flows toward the sea and themes of cleansing and renewal. The verse invokes nature imagery such as pools weirs crags ivy bells and shining waters as the speaker seeks freedom and purification.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Kingsley
Reading Character in Countenance from Leslie's Weekly
The piece lists facial and body cues as tells to character including long narrow teeth signaling strong views, long noses revealing prudence, deep eyes indicating truthfulness, and ear apex hints. It covers eyebrows, thumbs, fingers, and nails as signs of disposition, with cautionary notes on reliability and behavior.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leslie’s Weekly
Ghostly prank at midnight shakes Cuvier lore
A university prankster dressed as a fearsome extinct beast sneaks into Georges Cuvier’s home and scares the naturalist by announcing he has come to eat him. Cuvier, barely awake, shrugs off the illusion noting the creature’s horns and hooves prove it graminivorous, and the intruder flees.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cuvier
Woodpecker Versus Sparrows Rivalry
An Exchange-item notes the redheaded woodpecker as a mortal foe of English sparrows. The woodpecker’s powerful beak and neck enable him to kill sparrows in a strike, driving sparrows from nests and feeding on eggs and young. Sparrows fight but cannot drive him away.
Simple Cure For Ringworms From Fresh Fig Milk
The article claims fig stem milk cures ringworms and lettuce stalk milk helps skin roughness and discolorations. It urges trying simple old fashioned remedies first before resorting to patent medicines, noting they are not infallible and may be injurious.
Freaks of the Yang-tse river described in China
The Yang-tse, China’s great muddy river, floods its valley from June to October, lifting 40 to 100 feet at major points. The piece recalls unusual flood year incidents, including a steamer grounded in a rice field and locals compelling shipowners to store the vessel there. A war junk was also looted by villagers who burned its timbers for fuel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
China
Animals Weep: Tales From Cassell's Little Folks
Lady Burton recounts a cascade of tears across species from horses in the Syrian desert to sea lions and orangutans. The anecdotes note elephants, apes, camels, a hunted giraffe, a drowned rat, and a cow bred to weep when faced with loss or pain, illustrating grief as a universal response.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lady Burton
Syrian desert
Livingstone
Gordon Cumming
Cassell
olks
Kipling Checks Cause Bank Balance Mystery
Golden Penny recounts Rudyard Kipling in America using checks for expenses, many small ones. Autograph value exceeded bank value as tradesmen resold them. some checks were kept as mementos, including a beer check framed on a wall. Kipling burned his checkbook and paid with cash.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rudyard Kipling
America
Kipling
Funeral debt sparks last minute loan scheme
In a sharp exchange a man named Gagson asks Murdstone for 150 dollars to pay his late wife’s funeral expenses. The widow’s death occurred about a year and a half ago. Gagson plans to marry the next day, insisting the bill be paid first with the loan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gagson
Murdstone
PUMPING OUT A SCOW Easiest Boat Task for a Riverman
A riverman explains how scows are emptied of water by pulling the bottom plug after a tug lifts the bow. The process seems simple and effective, with scows often lying at piers loaded or awaiting use. Water drains out as the tug pulls, then the plug is resealed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Sun
Schopenhauer and his inflated self regard
A historical snippet notes Schopenhauer's extreme self complacency. It recounts his boastful letters to publishers claiming immense worth and a famous line about his appetite and intellect in a social dining scene.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Schopenhauer
General Fournier and the Mayor's Rose Duel
General Fournier, famed for unique dueling, aimed at the mayor of Perigueux from a balcony. He joked about picking the mayor's rose before firing, the pistol misfiring the rose and the mayor, who narrowly avoided harm, ending the intended challenge.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fournier
Perigueux
Barrister Apology Averts Contempt Charge At Court
A junior counsel faced contempt after exclaiming surprise at a ruling. John Scott later Lord Eldon advised calm. he apologized for the youth’s disrespect, arguing the remark stemmed from ignorance. Scott rose, thanked the judges, and framed the incident as due to inexperience and familiarity with court proceedings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Scott
Lord Eldon
Scott
Coffee's rise from Arabian dervish brew to modern habit
The text recounts how coffee drinking emerged as a modern practice. It narrates a tale from Arabia in the fifteenth century where a dervish chief noticed goats dancing after eating a shrub. To aid his disciples' late devotion, he prepared a beverage from its leaves or berries, leading to widespread coffee use.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arabia
Oliphant's Daring Escape From Lyons Mob
Laurence Oliphant, journalist and London Times correspondent, attended a Lyons revolutionary meeting where mobs cried Kill him To the river. Speaking in fluent French he falsely claimed to be a workingman and, when identified as the English emissary, shouted I know him by sight. He disappeared amid the uproar.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oliphant
Cherchans-le
Courting Sundays in Holland Traditions
In Holland November features four fete Sundays named Review Decision Purchase and Possession. On Review Sunday villagers attend church then parade and couples gaze without speaking. Decision Sunday introduces suitors with ceremonial bows and parental judgment follows. Purchase Sunday seeks parental consent if courting progressed. Possession Sunday marks lovers as prospective brides and grooms before the community.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Holland
Benedict
Danger Points on the British Coast List
The article ranks dangerous coastal stretches by region. The top peril is the coast from Flam boroughhead to North Foreland, including the Humber and the Thames, followed by Anglesea to the Mull of Cantyre with the Mersey and Clyde. Hartland point to St. David's head includes the Bristol Channel. The North Foreland to St. Catherine's stretch via the Dover Strait ranks fourth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Flamboroughhead
North Foreland
Humber
Thames
Anglesea
Mull of Cantyre
Mersey
Clyde
Hartland point
St. David’s head
Bristol channel
St. Catherine’s
strait of Dover
Seasoning Timber and Its Effects on Oak Wood
Oak timber loses about one fifth of its weight during seasoning and about one third when becoming dry. Gradual drying improves durability and strength. kiln drying suits small boards but risks cracks if done fast. Immersing large timber in water for weeks can reduce warping and cracking during seasoning.
Women Geniuses Are Rare in History
A historical excerpt cites Cesare Lombroso asserting women of genius are rare and often conservative. It notes many skilled women in music but claims none match Michelangelo or Newton. It also mentions J. S. Mill’s view on women’s originality and claims women impeded progress at times.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cesare Lombroso
Michael Angelo
Newton
Balzac
J. 8
Mill
The Bowdoin Quill Seafarer Yarn
The Bowdoin Quill recounts a 1870 sea yarn about coaster Jonathan Bell misreading a tramp steamer light near Monhegan. A masthead lantern misperception sent the Bell 50 miles off course, three days late into Rockland, ending the captain’s job amid a mock Monhegan impersonation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bowdoin
Jonathan Bell
Boston
Rockland
Monhegan
Also Mentioned on This Page
J.C. GODWIN CO
Our Domestic Department
Ben
Hat and Cap Department
New York
Our Dress Goods Department
Our Action Department
Our Shoe Department
Our Clothing Department
N. WASHINGTON STREET
The Denton
J. G. GODWIN
DENTON
T. FRED. GARRY
J.H. MEDFORD
W. HH. FT. WILSON
WALKE THE F FURNITURE MN MAN
FAMOUS NEW IDEA MATTRESS
C.C. WASKEY
N. Howard St
BALTIMORE
MARYLAND
JAMES T. COOPER
Undertaker
DESTOW
Cooper
prielly
Main street
T. H. Evans & Company, Fruit and Produce Commission MERCHANTS
Light Street
JOAN T. CARTER, Jr
Danton, Ma
JOAN W. CAUSEY
WM. DENNEY
Sac’y AND Treas
Kent County Mutual Insurance Co
DOVER
DELAWARE
nce
R. PLUMMER
Greensboro
ALEX. NOBLE
Preston, Md
Kreshian
R. J. COLSTON
DENTON, MD
TELAT
Kaity
D, KLINE
RIDGELY
J. Jl. Spence
JAVA
COPAPHES
J. E. Spence
Walter H. Lord
RICLCGHLYT
MAL
Lord
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