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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Sep 10, 1943
Page
3
A Methodist reader compares prayer to a source of guidance beyond self. He recalls Tsao Tsao’s feast of imagined plums to show meditation’s limits and urges daily communion with God. The piece explains tuning in to divine presence as essential for certainty, with anecdotal town scenes and reflections on understanding.
An old diary fragment recounts daily events with a humorous frontier voice. Notes include debt worries over marriages and children, a stomach ache eased by castor oil, town characters like Mister Dennis Hooli and Unkel Hen, and a gas company meter episode, all in informal slang.
In past years the physical life of children was neglected but now the value of life and its supporting parts is realized. The text notes various physical defects such as bad tonsils teeth adenoids and glandular issues that may retard a child’s development and learning.
Modern schooling differs from past needs and many dropouts sought work not requiring education. An army of optometrists now examines eyes to conserve vision, revealing the link between eye faults and headaches. Proper optometric care often alleviates headaches.
A brief health notice explains that crops of styes and general inflammation of the lids often disappear when proper lenses are worn. It urges an examination by an optometrist to reveal any defect present in a child’s eye.
A compact meditation on ideas arising when need meets intellect. Austin Pielphys notes that great notions emerge to answer widespread ignorance, surrounding it and urging progress.
The subscriber of Caroline county has obtained from The Orphans Court for Caroline county Maryland letters of administration c t a on the personal estate of the deceased. The notice indicates the administration is granted and rights to administer the estate.
A concise inspirational line urging believers to seek divine direction in all actions and to follow God’s guidance promptly under any circumstance.
Court orders Lay man J. Redden as Trustee to notify all claims against Eleanor M. Tidswell, deceased, to be filed with the Caroline County Circuit Court Clerk by December 3, 1943. Publication of this order must run weekly in a Caroline County newspaper for four weeks before October 2, 1943. Judge J. Owen Knotts. True Copy, Clerk D Ralph Hors ey.
This notice states that FRANK L. LONGFELLOW has letters Testamentary from The Orphans Court in Caroline County Maryland for the estate of ALEXINE LONGFELLOW deceased. Creditors must exhibit claims with vouchers authenticated by March 4 1944 or risk exclusion from estate benefits. Debtors must settle promptly. Given August 31 1943. True Copy Test: Carlton V. West, Register of Wills.
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