20 Sep 1930
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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Sep 20, 1930
Page
1
Having sold my home and moving to a smaller house I will sell at public sale where I now reside on Market street the following furniture and other articles. Auctioneer is Mrs. C. Leslie Walls and clerk is Ormond Andrew.
A brief humor sketch by D. J. Walsh presents Rose reacting to glutinous tapioca with clear distaste, capturing a light newspaper vignette tone and mid-century wit. The piece centers on Rose’s humorous culinary disappointment and the author’s casual observational style.
Rose Brooks endures illness and hunger in downtown comfort that feels like tapioca before a hospital ward becomes a rosy apartment. Doctor Ralph Smith and his sister Esther cure her anemia, offer a new job, and spark romance as Rose learns her health and heart may improve together.
A ragging hod carriers and a clerk mocked for weak haulage dream of chicken raising. A store owner frets as rivals price and plan. Senator Blank envies power while President Double Blank laments political setbacks and imagines a small Barred Rocks venture selling eggs door to door.
The late Ira Remsen denounces Wells style attacks on universities. A Baltimore reporter recalls a mayor from Nola Chucky in Paint Rock who, after unveiling a statue of a famed general, receives a curious question about the statue being pretty and whether it is equestrian.
In a blaze of urgency a Worcester fire alarm room heard a man report papers burning near his house and refuse to help stamp out the fire, saying he did not want to butt in on the department's business as multiple companies fought grass fires.
Hesitating pilots are ridiculed says Captain Trumbull Harris at a San Francisco dinner. He cites weather delays and the need for decisive action, urging aviators not to falter. A friend finds Jaggers puzzled over a shirt too dirty for the laundry yet not dirty enough to wear.
The Detroit News recalls the 1890s public introduction of a patent medicine touted as a miracle of modern science. It claimed to prevent tissue decay renew the brain blood and bone and drastically prolong life when used properly.
A London Tit-Bita advises that optimism should spur effort rather than act as a brake. True hope requires work and cheerfulness in pursuing best efforts, with results to follow.
Mildred finds a pink coded note in John Russells desk hinting at another woman. She wrestles with jealousy as John returns to business and a neighbor introduces a man named Trafford with a prospect that mirrors the puzzling message.
Ben Ames Williams recalls his experience converting a six day two to three hour story into a film. He notes the vast team required for moving pictures, from producer and director to actors and crew, with costs reaching 263000 dollars. He observed film making vastly more labor intensive than writing for the Sat urday Evening Post in Hollywood.
Wilard Marble extols roughing it in a mountain cabin in the Valley of the Moon. He cruises the high gear road from San Bernardino, praises trout streams and a lovely lake, and quips when asked where cooking takes place on the mountain.
Happiness comes to us only as we extend it to others. It is not so much a thing we receive as It is one which we give. "The best thing in Ife," says Hugh Black, "is to be a strong hand in the dark to another in time of dire need."
The cultivation of dahlias began with 1791 observations by Cayanilles, director of Madrid's Botanic Garden, describing dahlias from 1789 bred in Mexico by Vicente Cervantes. They reached England in 1789 via the Marchioness of Bute but failed due to poor understanding of needs. Reintroduction succeeded in 1804 through Tadeo Unllana's effort.
Weather bureau records show Fort Keogh Montana registered the United States lowest official temperature of 65 degrees below zero in January 1888, noting historical data do not extend beyond 50 years.
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