27 Oct 1923
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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Oct 27, 1923
Page
1
Janet Leeds, a penniless newcomer, enters the Bell household as Joyce Bell's maid. She endures scorn yet discovers quiet dignity in sunshine and art as she becomes muse and romance blooms with Allan Kitredge and Smith, the painter, who plans a spring exhibition debut.
The crested flycatcher nests by weaving a cast snake skin into its nest, usually hidden inside a tree hollow. The behavior, offered as a protection myth, remains a mysterious natural habit with no clear explanation.
The Dodecanese are small Aegean islands near Greece that have remained off maps due to their obscurity. A Rhodes crown offered in prior years rewarded a best history of the Dodecanese from Homer to now, with several islands like Rhodes Patmos Icarla Cos and Leros noted.
A visitor asks if the shop sells many clocks. The clerk recalls a man from Oklahoma who struck oil and built a 20 room house. He bought 19 clocks to place in every room except the bath, joking he did not want to waste time in the bath on Saturday night.
A narrator complains that a talking parrot and a noisy elephant keep him awake at night. The steward Monk explains the animals’ sleep habits make any attempt to quiet them futile.
A recently enacted Montana measure authorizes county level consolidation with cities, expanding options for municipal governance beyond existing boundaries. The law enables blending city and county powers to streamline administration and services across communities in Montana.
Avice, raised largely unseen and uneducated on Kenwood farm, grows into a providential figure when her singing heals Ellersly after a motor accident. Madame Dane reveals Avice is the son’s half sister and heiress to Ellersly’s fortune, resolving a longstanding tie between love, music, and inheritance.
In Virginia City and Gold Hill Nevada lower mine levels housed numerous rats despite heat reaching 140 degrees. They scavenge scraps, warn of cave-ins, and flee unsettled rock to seek safety, a tolerance miners tolerated for decades in Adventure Magazine.
A courtroom exchange prompts the joke that the car drove any man to drink as the defendant responds to the charge of operating an automobile under the influence. The remark underscores the legal contention and the judge’s inquiry into the motive behind the alleged offense.
A humorous exchange captures Little Jimmy noting his father’s two front teeth missing and remarking how funny he looks with a middle-parted smile during a lighthearted moment.
A colored man visits a drug store to use the telephone and jokes with the clerk by asking if the woman in the Sunday paper two weeks ago has a good man yet. He reveals he is the man who just got the job, saying he was checking up on himself in a humorous exchange.
A Pan American Union writer notes frigate birds are trained as decoys in Nauru Island village festivals. Decoys lure other birds, sparking contests presided by the island king. Villages boast captives and celebrate with feasting and dancing after vigorous tournaments.
A governess recalls two polite children, Marie and Wille, whose walks in snow reveal Wille’s oversized shoes and frequent tumbles, yet they laugh it off. Marie’s courtesy shines as she thanks kindnesses, including a thoughtful moment where Marle pauses at dinner to thank the rooster for her egg.
The Detroit News credits Chief Joseph with outstanding military genius among Indians. He led his people from Oregon and Idaho toward a Washington reservation in 1878, resisting removal through months of fighting and maneuvers before facing Gen. Miles at Shake Creek and seeking terms of surrender.
Detroit News describes ancient flint work at Sentinel hill near Kenton in the Oklahoma panhandle. Heaps of white flint and sandstone sit in hills while Indians prepared stone by heating ledges and quenching with cold water to produce usable flakes for arrowheads spearheads and crude tools.
A guest rides with a careful driver up a treacherous incline as a passing car boasts its speed. The guest shivers at the risk and the driver vows to teach the daredevil a lesson by accelerating, proving the danger of reckless speed.
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