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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Sep 05, 1925
Page
3
A 1920s agricultural essay urges farmers to run farming as a business by keeping books. It notes profits rise when inventories and annual financial statements are maintained, showing examples from Almoly and Iowa farmers who gained income and improved efficiency through careful recordkeeping.
Bankers in Monrovia Indiana test seed corn for fifty six farmers using a fitted basement room last season with twenty five thousand ears tested. One quarter of seed tested last year proved unfit and this year the rate is expected higher under the supervision of the high school agriculture teacher. Banks in Conway Arkansas offer prizes for marketable sweet potatoes with a $150 first prize and three $50 district awards. County Bankers Association plans to fund a full time county leader for boys and girls club work in Calhoun Cherokee and Buena Vista counties Iowa.
A London Morning Post remark describes a Scottish strip called Kennedy's Pass where travelers were playing poker in a carriage. Kennedy, with ace king queen jack ten of the same suit, folded as another player declared four, sparking a tale of mistaken geography and humorous bravado.
Revolving Garage London plans a garage with a rotating floor so a car parked on the floor can be moved to the door by rotation. The system promises space efficiency and streamlined vehicle access as the floor turns.
Long distance calls average 2,000,000 daily in the United States with 77,000 daily originate from 588,731 Chesapeake and Potomac telephones. Toll tickets record details of calls, minutes, and charges, passing from operator to line to terminating office. Accounting and mailing processes manage the revenue and billing across DC, Maryland, Virginia, and West Virginia.
A Baltimore Sun letter from John W. Owens mocks the U S government owned phone network arguing the British system, as part of the postal service, delivers far better service. He cites figures showing about 145 phones per 1000 in the United States versus 25 in Britain and suggests U S reform is overdue.
The Foreign Service of the United States will be the subject of a series of broadcasts from WCAP studio in Washington with J Butler Wright, Assistant Secretary of State. Programs air Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays from 7 15 P M to midnight and Sunday church services at 11 A M and 4 P M. A Capitol Theatre musical program in New York airs Sundays from 6 20 to 9 30 P M EST.
The Bell Telephone News reports over 46 million miles of telephone wire in service in the United States, about fifteen times the nation’s rural public road mileage. If laid along roads, this would yield fifteen telephone wires beside every rural road.
A quotation attributed to B C Forbes appears on Forbes Magazine praising appreciation from others. It asserts that a life of honest and unselfish effort yields recognition and reward from society. The excerpt emphasizes gratitude, esteem, and good will from others as the natural outcome of virtuous conduct.
Lieut. William T. Fitzimons of the Army Medical Corps, first officer of the A. E. B. F. to lose his life in the World War, is reported among the war’s casualties.
Nearly all Porto Rico railroads are owned by sugar growers, who rarely use them except during the sugar manufacturing season. This indicates a pattern of ownership tied to production cycles and limited network utilization outside harvest times.
William Jennings Bryan burial at Arlington prompted widespread telephotography. A special setup at Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone headquarters sent funeral images via long distance lines of AT&T to New York Chicago and San Francisco, with papers in those cities publishing the photos the same day.
Mrs. Oru Bowdle of Third St. testifies her kidney troubles caused dullness backache and fatigue. After using Doan’s Pills from Foster Milburn Co. in Buffalo she reports relief and regular kidney function. Price 60c at dealers.
Rabbit hound, female, two to four pens old, well broken, about 18 inches high, or a pair of rabbit hound puppies, eight to ten months old. Address Jos H Lane, 8 29 12 R R No 4 Centreville Md.
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