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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Sep 13, 1930
Page
2
Harry chats with the Sun about heat and time while recalling a Saturday baseball game. The talking Sun explains speed and habits as they compare notes on days, distances, and the 186,000 mile per second light. The tale mixes playful banter with facts about baseball and astronomical pace.
A humorous Exchange piece recalls Ben Franklin’s famed maxims as not guiding the sly Ken who stayed up late with the youths. It notes he followed Saint Richard in youth, then enjoyed the fireworks while proving the adages unreliable for him as an adult.
Edwin F Hill reports on the telephone industry highlighting mass reach with over 20,243,000 telephones and 80,290,000 miles of wire. Ninety three percent of wiring is in cable, with 16.6 million poles supporting lines and 1.4 million added last year. Poles treated by creosoted oils number 763,000. butt-treated poles total 533,000 while 114,000 remained untreated due to regional economics. Western Electric purchases Bell System poles for nationwide distribution.
A compact reflection on the everyday as the source of beauty. The verse notes that commonplace days, people, and things like the moon, stars, flowers, and birds, when united by God, form a beautiful whole despite gloom.
In this 1930 Western Newspaper Union piece, readers are urged to value vegetables grown in home gardens. It extols phosphorus calcium and vitamins in everyday vegetables, encourages children to cultivate small plots, and explains how fresh produce tastes far better than market or long-distance goods. The article includes a recipe for tomato salad with cabbage onions bell pepper and celery salt and mayo.
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