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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Sep 13, 1913
Page
6
Edward Melvin Ben. HW Johnson Mehlvin and Johnson, publishers, are listed on a Denton Journal Page G fragment.
Agnes Repplier notes in Century Magazine that America harbors a robust spinster era with women aging beyond twenty five cultivating farms and orchards. She contrasts past scorn with present acclaim, questioning patriarchal pride and praising female agricultural achievement as a sign of progress.
Dr Joseph H Twichell recalls Harriet Beecher Stowe and Mark Twain friendship in Hartford. Stowe loved flowers and used Twain’s conservatory despite gardener’s complaints. Twain placed scissors for safe pruning but she ignored them. Gardener asked to lock door. Twain insisted the space remain open. He exclaimed I wish the old lady was in Heaven.
The piece describes arid coastal regions from Peru to Ecuador and Chile, noting mud palaces along the Andes sea side, clapboard fronts, and scarce lawns due to water scarcity. It contrasts sun exposure with rain absence, calling the Chilean and Ecuadorian coasts an elongated Sahara and a waterless demonstration of nature.
Two male elephants contest a female by presenting progressively larger branches and uprooted shrubs. The winner carries off the largest tree while the loser retires in shame. The scene illustrates their dignity and shows advanced intelligence, as described by the duke of Montpansier in Wide World Magazine.
A terse strong opinion condemns a public nuisance who imposes himself on others for supposed common good. The writer directs harsh wishes toward the target, indicating local civic irritation and heated rhetoric in a 19th century style letter to the Courier.
Welsh gold mines have long been worked for over sixty years though no rich vein is reported. Gold was first found in the principality in 1845 in a lode on the Cloggan mountain.
Vernon Ramsey, ward of Seth Ramsey, shirks city temptations after his brother Paul wastes funds from their mother’s estate. Paul elopes with Eva Cross to wed in Virden, prompting Vernon to confess his past misdeeds and accept responsibility for their mother’s trust.
Theodore Roberts was allowed five days of temporary release from Ludlow Street jail to visit his dentist after failing to pay alimony. An affidavit from Dr. Frank E Seely cited Riggs disease and urgent dental care as justification, with court permission due to the jail's lack of electrical instruments. The article then recalls historical wartime and royal pardons granted for personal reasons.
The Colorado Supreme Court in Martineux v. People held that night mare utterances or sleep statements are not competent against a defendant. It rejected an instruction allowing such declarations as evidence if a witness could not tell if the man slept or woke when speaking. The ruling emphasizes that voluntary statements may be used. sleep speech is not voluntary.
In England Coleridge's new collection features a Cardinal Newman anecdote. It recounts a high church Anglican traveler who, attempting Catholic ceremony, kneels when the priest kneels and stands with the congregation, only to discover all worshipers are women and he has been churched.
The old German town Wildermann observes a quaint wedding ritual. The bridegroom must lower a lawhoree from the bride’s lodging before the wedding. On the wedding day the couple must saw a knotty log in two to pass after leaving the church. Townspeople watch to gauge if they will pull together.
There are now nine and a half million wage earning women in Germany due to urgent factory demand for female labor. Prussia and Saxony textile factories absorb 400,000 women, with women also employed in Bavaria Baden Wuertemberg Hesse and Alsace Lorraine. The artificial flower industry and toy sector are largely in women’s hands. Clock making in the Black Forest hand weaving in Silesia and the basket industry in Thuringia provide widespread work for women.
In a six room flat, the tall girl confronts Mary over toothbrush etiquette after a quarrel that ends with Mary packing and leaving. The housekeeper recalls the confrontation and Mary’s remark about touchiness as the two women sever their relationship.
A wedding warning about grooms who forget the hoop of gold. Clergymen have stepped in with humor at moments of panic. One minister handed a ringless groom a bunch of keys and the bride used the largest loop as a substitute while the clergyman quipped. In another suburban ceremony a clergyman offered a gold rim from his eyeglasses as a makeshift ring.
The passage urges happiness as a right and obligation, linking sanity courage and sympathy to serving others. It notes that avoiding preventable diseases and moral disasters matters, and that innocent happiness brings comfort to the sorrowful while liberty gives hope to the oppressed.
The article argues there is no evidence for extinct giant races and no humans larger than the standard height remain today. It defines normal human size, notes small natural variation, and labels individuals significantly taller or shorter than average as giants or dwarfs.
The article discusses the rise of civilization suggesting writing and orderly society may have begun in Mesopotamia before reaching Egypt. It notes Chaldea Babylonia proponents argue for earlier origins, but the evidence still favors Egypt as holder of the title for now.
The gun used by naturalist John James Audubon may be seen at the New York Museum of Natural History. It is displayed beneath a portrait of the scientist described as a great American.
Society writer in Topeka Capital notes a wedding misstep by omitting the groom’s stated plans to support a family, a detail observers say is essential to understand future stability. The comment highlights persistent gaps in society pages across newsrooms.
Barnardo homes have sent nearly 23,900 children from England to Canada through the agency, reflecting the scale of the child relocation program.
An editorial argues that a class that lives only for itself and ignores the broader community is bound to perish. It warns that selfishness is the Nemesis to its extinction and urges collective responsibility within society.
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