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Denton Journal

Location

Denton, Maryland, United States of America

Date

Oct 19, 1901

Page

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J C Godwin Co Fall and Winter Opportunity

J C Godwin Co announces a new department store with fresh season goods. The message highlights new styles and low prices, promising pleasing options in both style and cost.

Our Domestic Department Special Bargains in Linens

Our Domestic Department offers special bargains on table linens and aprons. Low prices include unbleached and bleached pieces at fractions of their former costs. Advertising claims highlight new goods, large assortments, and hip prices on caps and blankets.

Dress Goods Sale in Easton Sparks Wide Variety

A local shop announces a large assortment of dress goods with big discounts. Black goods priced at low rates, crepon pieces at 75 cents, and fabrics from 15 cents to 75 cents per yard. French flannels for waists highlighted, velvet and silk selections in multiple colors displayed for the season.

Easton

Hosiery and Underwear Deals for All Ages

Try our Ladies, Children's and Gents 10, 16 and 25 cent Hosiery. None better made for the money. Remember, we can give you Winter Underwear for men, women and children at 25c, 50c, $1.00 and $1.26 that you can not get the same goods nowhere but here for the same money.

Bargain Textile Sale with Low Prices

A garbled note advertises discounted linens and wearables. It lists Turkish towels, handkerchiefs, embroidered items, ladies' blouses, shorts, shirts, neckties, and other goods with prices as low as 5 to 60 cents. The fragment ends mid thought.

Shoes Offered At Low Prices In Our Catalogue

Now loaded with the best Shoes for the least money. Try a pair of our 3.00 Stine and enjoy splendid wear. Hess Shoe sells for 3.76 while you pay 5.00 for no better. Queen Quality Ladies Shoes at 3.00, unmatched below 5.00. Call for our Shoe Catalogue. Your shoes shined free if you buy. Ask for a Ticket.

Our Clothing Department Best Ever Stock in Estun

Our Clothing Department offers men's bays and children's suits and overcoats with unmatched fit and low prices. Tailor-made pants sell from 26 cents to 750 dollars as the largest assortment and best states are shown. This will be no great overcoat season. just give us a look.

Estun

Our Carpet and Window Shade Department Sale

Overstocked on matting and curtains with special prices for churches and lodges. Call to see bargains including 35 cent curtains for 25 cents and 15 cent curtains at reduced prices. New stock at our roll stand with carpet offerings.

Culand

Batwell Wife Hides Hawaii of Bar Harbor Stopover

Florence Batwell travels to Bar Harbor with her daughter while husband Billy plans a lavish seashore escape. Letters stir jealousy until Chicago wife learns he is remodeling a new home for her, bought with a pair of informants, and she returns home to discover the ruse.

W. Guernsey Batwell Bar Harbor Florence Hyde Park Billy board of trade windward Mrs. Howard Hemingway Hemingways Mrs. Batwell ITle Chicago

Mincing Parsley the Efficient Way

The text explains a method for mincing parsley quickly and safely. Dry the parsley, pick leaves from stems, and hold them with fingers slanted to protect them while slicing with a sharp knife. Each knife stroke chops finely, avoiding rework and saving time for the busy housewife.

Tea Processing and Varieties in India and Ceylon

Four pounds of fresh tea leaves yield one pound of dried tea. Indian and Ceylon teas are mostly black, though green teas come from the same plant. Rapid drying preserves green color. black tea undergoes extended exposure and fermentation-like steps over hours.

India Ceylon

The Black Lady Ghost Story at Darmstadt Castle

A ghost tale tells how the Black Lady of Darmstadt Castle foretold royal deaths and terrified garrison troops. A young grenadier volunteered to test the haunting, promising to halt the phantom or fire. At midnight the sentry’s challenge produced a fatal shot, yet no wound appeared on the officer. Shortly after, Grand Duke Louis I died suddenly in the palace.

Darmstadt Hesse ioldeat grenadiers Louis grand duke Louis I ducal

When Firm Names Outpace Time and Change

A New York Post tale cites a canvasser seeking three named partners at a famed law firm. Each responds with past status. the visitor then pleads to update the firm name, highlighting the drift between tradition and present personnel.

New York Post Mr. O Europe

Difference In Hair Types From Microscope To Death

The passage explains hair structure noting straight hair as a hollow tube and curly hair flattened on both sides curling toward a flat face. It states women’s hair is coarser and thicker on the scalp than men’s, estimates about 130000 hairs per head, and claims hair can continue growing after death according to various instances.

SoHo on the Pittsburgh Line Named by Brakeman

A Baltimore and Ohio train near Pittsburgh called at a station named Soho and the brakeman loudly pronounced it. A passenger quips about how many towns in the area have Indian names, noting Soho Monongahela and Duquesne nearby.

Pittsburg Baltimore and Ohio Soho Monongahela Duquesne

Visitors spark fear among unruly crowd at chess congress

A visitor fearfully describes a group of undisciplined men he calls dangerous lunatics. An attendant clarifies the men are visitors, prominent members of the chess congress holding its downtown convention in Detroit.

chess congress Detroit

Tests for Precious Stones

The passage argues color is unreliable for testing precious stones noting red stones can be non rubies and white stones not necessarily diamonds. It lists yellow sapphires green diamonds and blue spinels and advises using multiple tests with guidance from all results to avoid misdiagnosis.

Never Plant Anything Without an Appropriate Place

A New York Sun excerpt on prudent garden layout urges choosing plants by final size and purpose. It warns against crowding evergreen screens and artificial rockeries, favors vines for walls and shrubs for backgrounds, and stresses a smooth, velvety lawn as the stage for flowers and ornament.

New York Sun

Whiskers of the Lion and Cat as Tactile Organs

The long hairs on the sides of a cat face are touch organs connected to skin glands and lip nerves. They extend along the lion and cat body width, guiding movement in dim light. Whiskers alert to obstacles, reducing rustling and aiding stealth as the animal approaches prey.

Butteearly days restaurant scare ends without tragedy

A man recalls a chaotic scene in a Butte Missouri restaurant where a half breed Mexican waiter armed with a revolver and bowie knife terrorized patrons. A new man’s jump through a window averted a deadly tragedy as cups were set upside down to keep out ants and a shouted demand for meat escalated tensions.

Butte

Receiving an Apology in Modern Life

The Boston Journal laments how difficult it is to accept an apology and how a smug reception deflates the act of humility. It argues that many people respond with condescension, asking the apologizer to admit foolhardiness, which negates any genuine acknowledgment of fault.

Boston Journal

Hat Plot Involving Professor Tait Of Edinburgh

The late Professor Tait of Edinburgh University reportedly swore to cut up the first hat on his desk. He destroyed his own headgear after being annoyed by students leaving hats there, a tale tied to a student placing his hat on the desk.

Professor Tait Edinburgh university Tait

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J.C. GODWIN CO Our Domestic Department Hat and Cap Department Axk Vatter New York Our Dress Goods Department Our Nation Department Our Shoe Department Our Clothing Department Baltimore DELINE RIDGELY MARYLAND N. WASHINGTON STREET The ‘Denton GODWIN CO GRAIN AND ELOUR EXCHANGE DENTON, MARYLAND FRED. GAREY W. H. T. WILSON IBIZ I De WASKEY C.C. WASKEY N. Howard St BALTIMORE, MARYLAND JAMES 'T. COOPHRE Undertaker onT DIAR T. H. Evans & Company, Fruit AND Propece Commission MERCHANTS Light Street J. H. Spence JAVA DENTON JOAN W. CAUSEY, Pers DENNEY, Sec’y AND TREAS Kent County MutuaL INsurANCE DOVER, DELAWARE JOHN T. CARTER, Jnr Mil sca im Fierce PLUMMER Greansboro ALEX. NOBLE Preston, Md OLS SFON R. J. COLSTON Walter H. Lord RILDGELY MAR VALD Lord Embalminga J. H. MEDFORD belle tall Gordon Leshle By Joh H. Rafferty Black Lady SRi
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