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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Oct 28, 1893
Page
1
Our fall clothing assortment is complete with hats and furnishings. Prices range from 10 to 25 dollars, with superb suits and overcoats offered at 10 12 15 and up to 25. An interesting line at 15 is valued at 20.
A sales note urges pride in boys appearance, offering knee pants suits and overcoats at 2.50, 3, and 5 dollars. It promises over fifty styles priced at 5 dollars, encouraging parents to dress youngsters with similar care as themselves.
A front display touts fall hats with precise style and color. Men's Derbys priced at 1.50 and 2.50 for exclusive Youman Hats, claimed as the finest in America. The department advertises a larger stock than two rivals and highlights 50 cent garments and a 50 cent dress shirt as value.
A fable in verse recounts a lion ill and urged to seek help. The Hyena accuses the jackal of cowardice for withholding aid while the lion asks the jackal to fetch a solution. The jackal pretends to help, but the ruse ends with the jackal fleeing as the lion uses a dangerous skin clue to cure his illness.
The article surveys 3400 year old Palestine tablets proving writing and trade, contrasting ancient Hebrew civilization with Egyptian and Assyrian culture. It discusses writing's spread, references Voltaire on Homer, and notes two early military bodies, regular and volunteer, with a clash over rank and honor featuring a captain and private quarrel over fighting for $11 a month.
The London Daily News argues that revolutionary regimes rename streets to reflect history, noting Paris showcases victories and famous figures on placards while Britain lacks Crecy or Agincourt in street names, preferring English victories on foreign soil. It highlights an English bias against foreign names and contrasts continental practices with British streets.
The St Louis Chronicle notes Seymour D Thompson chief justice of the St Louis Court of Appeals rose from Memphis patrolman to famed lawbook author earning about 25000 yearly. English and American lawyers widely cite his texts, while rival papers joke about their own fortunes diverted to Thompson's success.
A fragment notes a reader's reaction to a patent medicine almanac, calling it a sickliness critique. It then describes the largest spider in Central America, whose body and extended legs can reach about 15 inches, preying on birds and lizards.
W. R. Childwick recalls traveling in France reaching Grenoble and Thonon with almost no money. He loses his trousers in a hotel search and calls for the chief of police after failing to locate them. A pawned pair returns with an apology, revealing he had traded his trousers to pay for fare to Thonon.
Polly Pry notes in the New York Recorder a flashy, popular fin de siècle poker player who plans to quit after revealing her paradox: she wins too much, grows unpopular with friends, and values their good will more than the game. She says her luck makes opponents hate her, so she will stop playing.
A boy vexes his father with questions about a psalm and the word selah. In Sunday school the superintendent asks who knows selah meaning and the boy loudly answers Shut up.
The text contrasts a technical medical description of sleep apnea with a popular paraphrase about speaking and losing moral authority. It juxtaposes a clinical observation of mouth breathing and tongue position during sleep with a poetic, defiant refrain about oppression, truth, and freedom amid historical oppression.
A report on Stamatz and Singhi two Japanese students sent to the United States by government funds in 1879. Stamatz excelled at Vassar, marrying into wealth and remaining culturally refined, while Singhi maintained her Japanese roots, married a navy lieutenant, and returned to a life devoted to family, with limited English.
An old anecdote tells how the Russian marshal Suvoroff, famed jester, asked a sentry how many stars are in the sky. The soldier replied, wait a moment and I will tell you, then began counting to 100. Suvoroff rode off cold and later the sentinel was promoted the next day.
A visitor to Samoa recalls a village beauty with a nautilus shell headband a bleached hair mass glass scraps and red hummingbird feather trail. Dr Drummond notes a chieftain’s daughter whose hair is formed into black currant like balls and patterned diamonds circles and parterres. The Edinburgh Review muses savagery and Mayfair fashion converge in extreme adornment and taste.
A simple mechanical contrivance for English builders converts window sashes to casements by dropping a catch to free the sash, letting it hinge and pivot. The sash then locks back into a guided cord system, avoiding traditional guiding bends and keeping the sash on hinges when opened. Do babies' eyes grow or stay the same size is debated by experts in a Good Housekeeping discussion.
In a Boston dinner hosted by Dr. Webster, lights out and a burning mineral bowl created a ghastly scene as Webster simulated a hanged man with a rope about his neck. Within a year the same man would hang himself in murder.
Professor A L Bubach of the Imperial Museum Berlin and nine aides report in northern and western Brazil extraordinary finds. They claim over 9 000 unnamed natural history specimens, including a smoke 67 feet long with boar like tusks and a 2 foot horn on its forehead.
The article notes Bab el Mandeb Strait entrance called The Gate of Tears due to dangers. It cites Himalayas as the world’s highest peaks in Tibet. It mentions submarine divers lose sight at depth zero and rely on touch, and records the Potsdam artesian well at 5,500 feet as the deepest bore.
A Philadelphia Times recounts a Mississippi steamboat encounter with Old Pete, a veteran of Fort Donelson. The philosopher and former soldier rejects patriotism as vanity, values life above fame, and says a dead white man matters less than his own sense of self. Pete ends by noting he would miss himself, a striking twist on honor and sacrifice.
Sir William Fraser recounts a keeper at the Zoological gardens disliked by his animals. Hired for fondness of animals, he drew their enmity, hidden from view as kindness masked harm. A watch revealed he never spoke to the animals, making his presence intolerable to them.
A transcribed anecdote from the Electrical Review recounts a European delegate offering a towel method to ease shoe fitting. The trick involves folding a towel corner into the shoe heel, sliding the foot to the point, then lifting the towel to pull the foot in. The tale highlights ingenuity in everyday device usage.
The St Louis Republic notes authorities on hydraulics argue steam engines are not modern. Carpini describes a man shaped mophile device using flammable liquid, likely petroleum, powering weapons in battles between Mongols and Prester John’s forces.
A London Tit-Bits note recalls a man who forgot his watch while rushing to catch a train. He deliberately checked his pocket timepiece, then realized it wasn’t there and hurried back to see if he had time to retrieve it. The absurd lapse is cited as the worst case of absentmindedness.
A humorous cartoon caption from the Chicago Tribune shows a mother scolding her son Willie with a slipper while he retorts that spanking hurts him as much as her. The exchange captures a playful domestic moment.
The excerpt notes the first mention of asparagus during Queen Elizabeth I's era. John Gerard describes garden sperage as thick tender shoots rising from the ground, similar in thickness to a quill, tasting like green beans, and ending in a scaly bud. He claims they are often boiled in broth or water with oil pepper and vinegar.
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