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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Sep 27, 1902
Page
4
Local Denton paper entry notes a date in 1902 with mentions of community events and names obscured in OCR. Highlights include civic notices and small notices likely reflecting daily life, social happenings, and town business from the period.
A Turft Field and Farm piece recalls courage of trapped animals as a muskrat gnaws off its own foot to escape. It describes the night of silent suffering, the held chain, and the bold act of self sacrifice amid winter snows and ice. The author honors animal fortitude across centuries of civilization.
A reflective piece discusses the evolution of journalism from the composing room to modern operations. It contrasts the loss of the old time printer with encyclopedic knowledge and laments the vanishing craft while noting progress. The article also offers practical care tips for cleaning pianos and restoring finishes.
The text notes that extended heat waves trigger personal crises as vital forces wane and the brain is affected. Physical weakness and prostration rise, leading to more self-initiated deaths while in high temperatures. As temperatures drop and air clears, vitality and ambition return.
Mrs Boggs and Mr Boggs argue as they recall knives Johnny has lost. She suggests he has found six or eight knives and that he might give him one, while lamenting their family’s struggles and the wasted effort.
A brown suited man explains how circumstantial evidence misleads jurors after a bank robbery accusation. He recalls false identifications, hotel alibi contradictions, and a moonlit balcony romance that ended with him being sued for breach of promise. The piece satirizes relying on circumstantial evidence in trials.
A survey of international beauty rites describes how women color fingertips and toes red in Arabia, apply black brows in Persia, paint eye outlines, and gild teeth in Japan and India. Some regions dye teeth black as a sign of beauty while the Hottentot women cover the body in red and black patterns.
The piece notes Spurgeon sometimes used dramatic excess in sermons. Mr Haweis recalls a scene where Spurgeon challenged a line from Paul with a half crown bet, then checked the Bible and admitted the apostle's words strengthened him, ending the bet.
Centuries ago societies enforced length limits on hair and garments. Men faced shoulder length bans while women with long plaits marked status, with free-born women resisting edicts and keeping hair within reasonable bounds.
A London speech recounts a tale of three nationalities advising a gentleman whose servant constantly breaks items. The Englishman suggests dismissing the servant, the Scotchman proposes docking wages, and the Irishman prescribes raising wages to curb the damage.
The article explains that each head of clover has about sixty flower tubes with tiny sugar quantities. Bees visit about 100 heads to collect sugar, thrusting into around 6,000 flowers. A bee makes twenty trips daily, drawing sugar from roughly 120,000 flowers in one day.
In a grave aside to a grieving friend, the speaker notes life is full of grievous disappointments and mistakes. A humorous interruption reveals a man once passed a chance to buy a gold brick to instead marry, leaving both to wonder about the thrill of gold and its absence.
A former circuit preacher Bill Bowman used a half bushel of Irish potatoes as weapons in a duel after a local desperado challenged him. The fight occurred on the town outskirts with potatoes hurled one by one. Bowman landed blows as the desperado’s potatos misfired, leaving him winded and bedridden for over a week.
A Chicago theater writer Bartley Campbell once issued a letter head showing Shakespeare and Campbell in friendly rivalry. Campbell initially resisted but, under pressure, withdrew the playful design and replaced it with one that quietly omitted Shakespeare.
The article notes that while a dozen is twelve in schools, in practice it varies by trade. In pottery and earthenware, a dozen can mean two, four, six, eight or more items depending on size and weight. The author recounts a failed attempt at pricing 500 items per dozen, highlighting the difficulty of variable dozens for clerks in wholesale pottery.
The text recalls old beliefs about crows bringing luck or misfortune at weddings and funerals. It cites Greek lore of a lone crow foreshadowing divorce, and Horus Apollo claiming a crow’s death ends the evil omen. It also notes a belief that a crow lives nine times a man’s length.
In tracing the origin of money the Roman word Moneta is linked to the temple of Juno Moneta where the first regular coins were struck. The term coin likely derives from Latin cuncus meaning a die or stamp, and many coins bear names from their original weight such as sound, livre, and lira.
A London Standard quip reports a sharp exchange where a tourist mocks an Irish peasant by saying ears are too large for a man. The peasant retorts that the tourist’s ears would need enlarging, noting they are too small for an ass.
Fragmentary OCR lists place names and locales such as Clayton Kenton Hardy Slaughter Marydel Henderson Goldsboro Greensboro Ridgely Queen Anns Cordova Chapel Easton Trappe and Oxford, suggesting a regional reference or directory snippet from a Maryland area page. The garbled text includes numbers and initials with no full sentences or clear event.
The list covers locations in TIENDERSON Greensboro Hillsboro Ridgely and American Corner with Registrars set to sit at the named precincts in the Second Third First Seventh and Eighth Election Districts. This notice indicates polling place assignments and official seating arrangements for voter services.
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