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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Sep 17, 1927
Page
7
Melvin and Johnson Inc publishes the Saturday morning issue dated September 17 1927 with local notices and brief items from the paper.
A New York Times excerpt notes Pharaoh Ramesses II, famed as Ra Meses Vil, wealth far beyond his time. Diodorus estimates 400000 talents, about 500 million today, twenty times that in purchasing power. The piece compares ancient prices and wages as context.
Cornelius Vanderbilt, later the commodore, grew up farm and boat laborer. As a boy he raced horses, skipped school for sailing, and sought $100 from his mother on May 1, 1810 to buy a harbor boat. She offered the money if he plowed an eight acre rocky field by his sixteenth birthday, which he honored on May 27, then earned a fortune, about $100,000,000, decades later.
Mary Hosmer Brown recalls Thoreau guiding a walk with strict woods manners. He led to berries nests flowers while protecting all wildlife. Children remained still as each creature was fed from his pocket and departed, introducing his family in a quiet ritual.
An old wife visits her sick husband and rebukes the vicarage for offering wine. She reports the cellar wine has sat since 1800, and she refuses to bring it, declaring it nasty and stale. The exchange highlights suppressed wrath and indignation.
A three year old girl named Helen visits Mrs H- at a duplex and asks to borrow a match for her mother. She returns the burned match later, saying her mother did not finish it and she wanted to bring it back when the grocer boy comes.
Persians widely adore tea as a social custom with teahouses ranging from elaborately furnished to modest. Businessmen meet there while loiterers frequent the venues. Common pipes and water pipes are used, sometimes flavored with lemon juice, and smoke passes through water before inhalation.
The Brus Stone dating to 1204, long missing for 150 years, was placed permanently in Annan's town hall staircase in Scotland. Sir Robert Bruce unveiled the stone at ceremonies, recalling its origin in the Castle of Brus. It resurfaced ten years ago in a North Devon garden after a 150 year disappearance.
Xenophon, Greek military leader and historian, lived circa 430 to 855 B C. In 401 B C he led about 10 900 Greek mercenaries for Cyrus. Cyrus fell, and Xenophon guided the march home through Armenia to the Black Sea, recording the retreat of the Ten Thousand. His account remains a Greek reader in colleges today.
A compact feature in the Woman's Home Companion explores the oddity of the term olvie and its impact on readers. The piece threads humor and social context, offering light commentary on language fatigue and ambiguous coinages.
A 1927 Western Newspaper Union essay argues that stepping back from problems fosters clarity and better decisions. It urges periodic inner self examination, detachment from knee jerk urges, and time to dream as foundations for reaching goals amid daily toil.
The Circuit Court for Caroline county equity case No 2589 orders publication to notify absent defendants Ira L Butler heirs that real estate in Caroline county 16 acres 1 4 roods is to be sold. The land originated from Ira L Butler who died January 26 1927 leaving heirs Robert Butler Roland F Carter Katherine L Price Medford Price Oscar Butler Frances Butler Althea Stormont Catherine Butler, all minors or presumed dead, and tract details refer to prior deeds and exhibits. Publication required in a Caroline county newspaper four weeks before October 10, 1927 with appearance by October 26, 1927.
In a French divorce case a wife charged her husband with assault. The court accepted his justification, ruling that violent action by a husband, proven and admitted, did not justify divorce because the wife provoked the conduct under the code of gallantry.
A Welshman boasting a fine bass voice recounts a dream of a colossal choir with five thousand sopranos, altos, and tenors all singing at once. The conductor then admonishes him to soften the bass.
Edwin Markham voices in the Smoker's Companion that the great writers are nearer to God, able to grasp His moods and meanings. They are the mountain peaks of humanity, first to feel the day break and catch the sun.
In Norse myth Woden rules the universe from Valhalla with daily two black ravens Thought and Memory gathering news from the world. Spirits of brave slain men gather there to revel in feasts and fights at his court.
The Bedford level is a large swamp land area described as about 800 miles by 40 miles, stretching from Peterborough to Northampton and from Cambridge to the sea. Since the seventeenth century drainage has converted much of this region to cultivation, shaping its current use.
A compact meditation on poetry as an unrecoverable hue from a broader thought. The speaker notes that verse emerges only by miracle and is not a precise record of crisis but a near capture of it, echoing Thoreau.
In Equity No. 2579 the Circuit Court for Caroline County orders the Auditor's Report to be ratified and confirmed unless good cause is shown within three weeks from September 10 1927. A copy of the order must be published in a Caroline County newspaper once in two successive weeks before September 19 1927.
The American Farm Agency of Philadelphia announces a new District Office in Denton under manager Ernest G Cooper. It specializes in Maryland farm sales with nationwide advertising for speedy results. Call 61 Denton or write to Ernest G Cooper for listing and selling assistance.
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