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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Oct 24, 1903
Page
4
A Philadelphia Record description warns that hiring a cook in Ecuador often requires taking in her husband and children, along with their livestock. Visitors may face dozens of extra mouths and potential theft or violence from visiting relatives, forcing shelter and food as dictated by local custom.
A correspondent reports nightingales sang constantly during a fierce thunderstorm, with lightning and thunder roaring for hours. While the storm roared and sleep fled, the birds performed a continuous chorus that seemed to drown the thunder, described as a singular curious circumstance by the Westminister Gazette.
A Chicago man gathers a handwritten list of unusual Maine citizen names once penned by the late Thomas B. Reed who claimed Maine could produce more statesmen foxes water deer and odd names than any other state. Names include Erek Smith Hassassah Jones Liberty Brown Calvary Thomas Hopestill Waters Bana Bullock Kilah Man Jey Galen Kirk Summer Allfiend Generous Pascal Uzza Fellowes Zophan Harum Diodamia Gilmore Mesbach Carson Cotton Milliken Priam Sproull Leluva Dickson Barcillai Sawyer.
Dean Farrar recalls a dinner with Charles Dickens where Sims Reeves failed to appear due to throat trouble. Dickens, angered by the audience’s disbelief, announced Reeves’ regret with severe wit, remarking on the unfortuna te and facetious nature of the situation.
A school board officer visits a town near Philadelphia asking to see a husband at a woman’s house. He is told the husband is in jail and the caller is asked to wait, then the woman says to call again when he is out. The piece discusses the deathwatch beetle and its ticking sound as a sexual call and a source of superstition about death.
An account of a seashore lodge built by a couple that hosted many relatives and friends in an innovative living space. The design features foldaway alcoves, hinged partitions, a pulley system for moving beds, a staircase to a gallery, eight bedrooms at night and four in day, and a central peak roof creating a unique interior, with stone jars, a spinnin wheel, an aquarium, and other oddities.
The queen hosted a banquet for Edinburgh magistrates. Lord Granville, lord president, was seated after the Duke of Hamilton, prompting the queen to ask why. Granville replied simply that he cannot run like a lamp lighter, illustrating rank and deference in royal ceremony.
A Chicago Record-Herald humorous exchange features a scene where a man jokes about naming a pet chicken Adelaide. The young wife, recently married and living in a suburb, explains she chose Adelaide because her mother’s name is Addie, making the name feel natural for the “dear little fuzzy thing.”
Two North Atchison women, strangers, argued over chickens then fought with names rocks and dirt. As they clasped, both saw a lodge emblem on the other’s collar, the clash turned to a hug and friendly goodwill, quelling scoffs about women lodge members.
A note highlights Clara Schumann as the most gifted woman composer, her diary recounting thoughts before marriage that women should not wish to compose and that her own belief in breaking that rule was an arrogant notion prompted by her father.
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