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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Sep 20, 1913
Page
6
In a city quiet after a day of luck and loss, Wenwright the financier confronts a ruined fortune and a shadowed marriage. Edith Wenwright defies despair, urging that life, love, and death matter most as a new day dawns and a hopeful future opens.
Observatories on mountaintops face increasing lightning danger and uncomfortable living conditions. Ordinary lightning rods fail to carry the immense discharges of mountain storms, with Mont Blanc’s Janssen observatory experiencing bombardments and interior ribbon-like sheets of electricity and balls of fire moving between points.
The text advises on indoor painting care including room heating to speed drying and placing water buckets to absorb airborne impurities. It notes sugar smoke can freshen rooms with paint odor and claims sugar burning disinfects microbes, suggesting use during illness.
At a Bay of Islands versus Hokianga match in Kaikohe a Maori spectator wielded a stockwhip to ward off encroaching spectators. He acted decisively, delivering whip cracks as fifty brown bare feet crossed the sacred boundary line, causing players and fans to spring into the air in unison.
The text quotes Elinor Glyn on how women split into two types: rulers and those who yield. It argues women are drawn to similar kinds of men and that attraction reveals individual character, with the rule of Like draws Like.
A charming tale about William Dean Howells shared by a poet at the Thursday Evening Club. The speaker recalls Gilbert and Sullivan touring America, Gilbert asking about Howells books and noting Howells' Their Wedding Journey as popular. Sullivan remarks they should include a copy with their luggage too.
A historical excerpt discusses marriage advice stressing food choices for harmony and happiness. It contrasts domestic dining norms with Dunker community customs, noting frugal dress, self-made hats, strict modesty, and elders settling disputes while avoiding public office.
A Life magazine note argues camels could be domesticated in this country to compete with cows. It recalls their ancient presence, notes camels require little water, yield milk for cheese, and wool for shawls, and suggests they could become public symbols guiding the rich through humble lessons.
Doctor Butler recounts Palmerston anecdotes highlighting wit and defiant humor. He recalls the rainy speech day when Palmerston, soaked, listened to speakers for two hours then challenged a correction with a pun on being “doctored.” Another tale contrasts logic with personal feeling amid a boy on a pony and a question about preferring the beat side in a game against Eton.
Miss Ethel Sargant became the first woman president of the botanical section at the British Association meeting to be held in Birmingham next September. She lectured at London University, was an early Linnean Society fellow, and authored works on microscopic vegetable anatomy and seedlings. Other notable women include Miss Stopes with Royal Society support, and Miss Dawson, Miss Fraser, and Miss Lorrain Smith actively pursuing significant botanical research.
The left bank rue de Rennes project already doomed Passage du Pont Neuf and Balzac’s printing site in rue Visconti or rue des Marais is under threat. Critics claim Balzac’s costly manuscript corrections crippled his business, with César Birotteau recomposed fifteen times in twenty days, showing the immense labor behind his manuscripts.
At a mass meeting in South Minneapolis, the pastor asked John Johnson to stand if present to join the church. Nearly all men rose, then he told the bewildered Johnson to sit and promised to call a meeting of the same group next week.
The Milwaukee Sentinel notes Greenwich Observatory as the oldest major English observatory founded by Charles II, famed for anchoring English maritime longitude and time. It traces earlier and European predecessors from Alexandria to Nuremberg and Tycho Brahe, noting Paris and Washington meridians and America’s first observatories at Williams College and Harvard.
The Society of Psychical Research heard a report from Elberfeld on horse education led by Krall, showing horses trained to read and write from deterrence, perform arithmetic, and even reduce vowels in speech. The delegates found no definite solution to the problem and noted the thinking horse may be less strange than once thought.
Captain McTweed, a Scots officer of a Highland regiment, praised his countrymen at mess. As guests left, he saw a piper in Highland dress by the doorway and asked his origin. The piper bowed and replied with a playful claim of coming from Tipperary.
A memoir fragment praises Gounod as a fascinating man with irresistible charm and kindly eyes. The discussion notes his preference for French over English and his brilliance in conversation, aided by a reservoir of witty lines from Klein and his book Thirty Years of Musical Life in London.
The method of reckoning a vessel's tonnage uses carpenter's measurements. For a single deck vessel multiply keel length by beam breadth and hold depth then divide by 95. For a double deck vessel multiply as before using half the beam for the hold depth and divide by 95.
A Mexican stamp bears the coat of Arm a, an eagle on a cactus with a serpent in its talons. The device stems from a legend that the Aztec founders chose their city’s site after seeing an eagle in that pose perched on a cactus.
Professors Scala and Alessandrini of the University of Rome announce that pellagra stems from water in affected districts containing flint solu tions. They say the disease can be prevented by adding carbonated chalk to the water.
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