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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Oct 21, 1911
Page
6
Fragmentary historical item appears to credit a transcribed note from the American Press Association with unclear typography. The readable words offer no coherent event, people, places, or dates to establish a definite news item.
Artemus Clark forgets to provide money for Ann Elizabeth's new suit during a city journey. She endures humiliation waiting for funds and buys a blue outfit with a velvet hat, deepening resentment. He teases and then funds her purchase, urging open request for needs. Their ten years of marriage reveal growing strain and altered mood at home.
In a domestic vignette, Artemus and Ann clash over chores and money then find harmony as Ann helps mend and decorate, crafting a wedding centerpiece and quietly managing the home. Artemus learns to accept assistance and a weekly allowance, ending with mutual affection.
Mejor leads the small Barbary ape tribe on Gibraltar's rock. About twenty survive under martial law. The apes migrate with weather, throw stones at soldiers, and are cherished by residents despite their feisty nature. Earlier relocations from Barbary were tried, but the local population filled the gaps.
In bankruptcy court a witness faced a puzzling exchange as he denied having gross income saying he has none. The odd dialogue included garbled phrases and a blunt assertion about earnings, leaving the courtroom momentarily unsettled.
A village tailor tells his wife he will give Sam Bings a salt of clothes for a pig. The little daughter gasps asking what a pig would want with salt. Reported in the New York Times with rural and humorous tone.
The Washington Post notes Chinese language lacks an alphabet and uses thousands of characters far beyond standard typewriter capacity. Despite this, Chinese merchants, foreign residents, legations, banks, and colleges increasingly employ typewriters, with a growing market even though no single machine suits all needs.
An archaic account cites historians and commentators describing God forming a fruit from Adam's clay remnant, growing a cacao or cocud tree with a nourishing interior. The tale links this tree to Anatolia and India, detailing a bizarre ritual use, facial glimpses in a headlike brick, and the belief that harvesting its branches alters hair and beard growth while severing the tree’s head yields reddish sap.
A Pearson's Weekly report describes Japanese primitive dentists who attack victims seated on the ground. They pry a tooth free with a left jaw hold and wrench it out with a quick right hand grip, claiming the skill to remove six or seven teeth per minute. The article notes a brutal apprenticeship involving drilling and pegging a ground board then removing pegs through successive wooden boards.
A London Weekly piece explains the Resurrection plant, Aquastittica, from the Egyptian desert. It dries to a husk then rehydrates to revive its buds, calyx, and flower stalk, appearing to bloom again when placed in water, earning legends tied to Christmas and Easter.
A scientific note from Germany discusses how eye and facial recognition varies with distance. It states that with impaired eyesight one may not recognize a person seen before beyond about twenty-five meters, while a well known individual might be recognized from fifty to a hundred meters, or a family member from up to 150 meters. The whites of the eyes become visible at 27 to 28 meters, and the eyes at 72 to 73 meters. Body parts and slight movements are discerned at 91 meters, fingers at 12 meters, and at 640 meters a moving figure looks only as a blurred form. by 72 meters body movements are no longer visible.
The piece recounts John Muir in 1809 describing a telepathic moment with Professor J. D. Butler of Wisconsin. Muir felt he would meet Butler in the Yosemite North Dome area, then learned Butler had arrived nearby the night prior. The account, printed alongside Maryland political advocacy, blends personal anecdote with broader Democratic rhetoric urging white supremacy and party unity ahead of a 1912 election.
The article argues that physicians under racial and economic divides charge wealthier patients higher fees while subsidizing the poor through charity. It rejects legal standard fees, noting such fixes would raise costs for all and harm access for the poor, asserting care should reflect patients’ ability to pay.
The inventor of the locomotive Henry Stephenson, guided by Ole Bull the violin wizard, is moved to tears as Ole Bull demonstrates the violin’s construction and the precise sound waves. Stephenson realizes what had been missing in life after hearing the music.
Dr James Craik, Washington’s trusted physician, rode with the Father of His Country in the 1754 expedition against the French and Indies and later attended General Braddock in the fatal campaign. Years after, Craik met an aged Indian chief who claimed Washington fired his rifle many times at Monongahela. Washington’s horses were killed, his coat pierced, yet he survived unharmed.
The Life of Isaac T Hopper recalls how a friendly Quaker, Isaac T Hopper, offered a playful chemistry lesson to a boy with dirty hands. He urged soap and water as a simple chemical experiment, promising froth and whiter skin as the result.
A humorous exchange unfolds as a young man returns from college confident that electricity existed before the flood. An older man retorts, insisting Noah’s ark might have used some form of power, highlighting an anachronistic debate about science in ancient times.
A truncated dialogue from a Boston transcript shows a man seeking affection and a friend warning of consequences after marriage. The exchange hints at romantic suspicion and social judgment in a humorous or satirical context.
Maryland and Washington mineral water trade rose past 1,000,600 gallons for 1910, reaching 1,163,828 gallons valued at $102,371, a 24 percent rise in volume and 12 percent in value from 1909. Output has been mainly table water with springs near Hagerstown accommodating 600 visitors.
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