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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Oct 23, 1909
Page
5
A British regimental colonel in South Africa occupies an empty house as headquarters after a De Wet disruption. A telegram from Bloemfontein prompts a board inquiry as the colonel explains his use of shorthand G T M and G T H meaning general traffic manager can get the house.
A French waiter shares a tale of Gustav of Dax, famed for grilling lamb chops. He stacks three chops on the grill, turns them until the outer ones are dry, and eats the middle, claiming it is delicious. The other two are reserved for his wife.
A bishop guest tells a fisherman I am a fisher of men while two young ladies listen. A Tacoma wit recounts Cushman quips about a beefy Welsh officer and a laugh at a dinner table with a fat old Lipppopotamus wife remark.
A fragmentary reflection contrasts the sacred value of life with grief over death. It recalls Mrs Jedediah Weeds in Europe and a famed statue of a boy removing a thorn from his foot, humorously noting the bare art and its blunt perception of modesty.
Directors plan a grand mill after discovering ore shoots on New York HQ property. A new superintendent taps a soap box of samples and urges immediate milling. A second ore body proves a small pocket, quickly exhausted, prompting a witty telegraph reply to reverse the order.
Through elder Sothern Billy Florence befriended the Duke of Beaufort in New York. Florence staged a prank triggering concern as guests witnessed the duke racing with a chair, then hid his clothes and spread rumors of madness. A minister dining with corn beef quips about the chicken entering the epistry, adding to the comic mischief.
In a mining camp tale Broncho Bill, famed for lightning gur plays and a single eye, explains his injury to two young tenderfoots. When asked how he lost it, he erupts with I cut It out so's I wouldn't have to shut it in drawing a bead, a grim boast of tough reputation.
A reflective piece urges building mental nests of pleasant thoughts for resilience. It suggests youths can craft fairy places of beautiful thought and memories, forming treasure houses for the soul against adversity, poverty, and gloom, to sustain dignity and hope.
In a drawn out scene Edythe St. Claire’s mother invites Algy Vervain to wait, then a planned playful surprise backfires. Edythe, sharp and unimpressed, questions his intrusion and she asks him to leave. He departs, leaving the room with stiff finality.
An American tourist in Germany admired army maneuvers and German efficiency after a motor ambulance axle broke. Locals rushed a replacement axle and fixed it swiftly, prompting praise before the tourist discovered his car still unusable due to a missing axle. The anecdote is followed by Walter Savage Landor on vanity and conscience.
A fragment reveals Carl Goldmark introducing himself to a stranger on a train and old Nietzsche musings on loneliness. A New York banker rebukes a tramp’s plea over a wedding ring story, then Parisians in a box miss much of Thais as a hostess chat drowns the music.
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