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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Oct 18, 1913
Page
4
A compact religious study of Numbers 13–14 and Joshua 14 focusing on the spies report, unbelief, Caleb and Joshua’s faith, and the consequence of unbelief. It links ancient events to Christian guidance, urging trust in God over human estimation and highlighting obedience over self reliance in pursuit of promised blessing.
A Pall Mall Gazette item notes a Cardiff club notice claiming an alleged gentleman took three brushes from a color box and could not paint poultry without the master hand. It urges the brushes be returned to their rightful owner.
A Harput barber places a curved metal pan around the neck under the chin and fills it with water. He lathers with his hands and rubs the face, typically using his hands for this purpose.
One of London's oldest social clubs, the Everlasting club limited to 100 members, kept a round-the-clock presence. During 60 years it burned 60 tons of tobacco, 20 000 butts of ale, 1 000 pipes of port, and 200 barrels of brandy as a lone member nearly perished in the fire after refusing to leave to pour out the last bottles.
In Düsseldorf Germany a safety education campaign for streetcar riders aims to improve service and reduce dangers. A moving picture demonstration shows proper entering and alighting, noting that fifty percent of accidents occur while the vehicle is in motion. Demonstrations have yielded very satisfactory results and marked improvement.
London Financial Times reports a monumental elevated reservoir for Cabalito near Buenos Aires as part of sanitary improvements. It features three tiers of wrought iron columns on heavy foundations, a capacity of 16 million gallons, 123 feet height, and 15,409 tons of iron and steel. contract awarded in England.
In Sweden the bridegroom fears trolls and sprites and scatters strong herbs like goble and rosemary on his clothes as protection. The bride carries bread for alms to avert misfortune on the way to the church. Returning, they visit the cow house to bless the farm for thriving cattle.
A Palawan subterranean river has been surveyed by two U S coast and geodetic survey officers. The river is navigable by a small boat for about two and a half miles from its mouth. The tunnel widens into chambers with beautiful stalactites.
A historical recipe outlines making a permanent paste from ten parts arrowroot, one hundred parts water, one part gelatin, and ten parts alcohol. Gelatin soaks in water, arrowroot is mixed with water, then boiled four to five minutes. After cooling, add alcohol and a few drops of carbolic acid or cloves.
The active Arab barbers carry only scissors clippers and a razor. They set up temporary shops in market places by roasting over a few poles. They shave heads leaving short hair to fit the fez tightly over the skull.
A humor fragment from Puck features an African explorer who, shocked by a fellow traveler, asks why Clarence Vere de Vere is in the heart of darkest Africa. Vere de Vere replies he is wearing the Christmas necktie Miss Darling gave him and promised her he would.
A woman journalist comments on a poetry collection featuring motifs of dust, rags, fish and tea. She argues women have not reignited the poetic scene and notes a descent from pedestal into the burly burly of Ife.
A compact quotation attributed to Isaac Watts about gathering knowledge in mixed company. It urges listening first and speaking sparingly to avoid revealing ignorance or offending others among both acquaintances and strangers.
A bachelor quips that without car fare and lunch eon a woman would have no need of money when shopping, a remark met with knowing humor by married men. The Chicago News notes the exchange as a light, tongue in cheek moment reflecting social spending ideas.
A man who handled a naphtha jug near a lit match is connected to a case where a person repeatedly tested an supposedly unloaded revolver and killed two people. The incidents reveal a pattern of dangerous, careless actions with deadly consequences.
Photographers now use light akin to traditional studio skylight by vapor tube electric lamps filled with carbon dioxide instead of mercury vapor, offering a similar illumination method with this gas-filled technology.
A compact quote on human failings says we overemphasize faults and that the greatest fault may be to have none. The line attributes a deficiency in self perfection to common judgment of character and urges restraint in fault finding.
A dated racial quip from the Pennsylvania Punch Bowl depicts a speaker urging a Black boy to let suspenders drop so his feet won’t touch the ground. The cartoonish line reflects era stereotypes and racial caricature.
Atchison Globe notes Short Jenks repeatedly threatens to provide a written guarantee though public knowledge holds he cannot write. The item highlights his habit of grand assurances without substance.
The January session of Maryland General Assembly proposes amendments to multiple articles of the state constitution including adding a new section 40A to Article 3 and redefining sections of Articles 1 3 4 5 with provisions on private property just compensation election submission and structure of the judiciary. Governor Goldsborough orders publication in two newspapers per county and in Baltimore papers including a German language edition ahead of the November 4 1913 general election.
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