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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Oct 21, 1905
Page
5
Prospects grow for two major policy debates in Congress. Prohibiting corporate political contributions faces strong opposition, while a proposed tax on patent medicines containing alcohol aims to boost revenue to cover the Treasury deficit. Campaign finance disclosure and industry resistance shape the coming session.
A wide argument by James J. Hill decries overemphasis on urban centers. He credits rural lands, mines, and forests as national strength, while portraying New York as a bloodsucker built on outside wealth and resources. The piece cites Wall Street, trade, and labor flows as proofs of open-country dependence.
A crude stone head found in a Moriches field is on display, viewed by ethnologists as a faithful though rough depiction of ancient savages. The sculpture suggests small brain development and large jaws, reflecting primitive human forms from ages past.
Rev Dr Forbes of the Methodist Episcopal Board of Extension argues money spent on church steeples could repay national church debts and calls steeples relics of barbarism. Critics counter spires bring grace and beauty to towns and please many people, beyond strict utility.
Theatre war pits Belasco against the trust with backers including Harrison Grey Fiske and the Shubert Brothers. Their new $1.5 million combination aims to control thirty theatres from Boston to St Louis, challenging trust rules while Belasco presses for Washington ventures like Lafayette Theatre and a modern fireproof venue.
A group of boys studies a theatre poster showing a violent scene while younger children swarm mud puddles nearby. The narrator recalls idyllic rural memories and laments urban childhood hardship, urging empathy for deprived youths and questioning judgment of those from ruined streets.
London reports a new vice, tea leaf cigarettes, gaining female followers and alarming medical experts. The habit reportedly gives a pleasant sensation but causes dizziness and exhaustion, with sufferers reaching a dreamlike, narcotic-like stupor.
The Mary Washington monument on the Fredericksburg hillside marks the burial site of George Washington's mother. After a long quest beginning in the 1830s and financial reverses, patriotic women formed the Mary Washington Monument Association in 1889 and funded the stone memorial housing her remains.
Esquirol invited a student to dine and observe two guests. The quiet, well dressed man claimed to be God, the Father, while the louder guest was Balzac. The pupil judged the former sane, Balzac insane, but Esquirol corrected that Balzac was the celebrated French writer, illustrating delusions in sanity.
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