28 Sep 1889
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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Sep 28, 1889
Page
1
The gallery reveals a limited time offer for a finished 20x16 portrait in permanent platinum with gilt or bronze frame and a dozen cabinet photographs for 35.50. Warranted permanent and a good likeness. Negatives may trade for the portrait at the same rate minus cabinet costs.
Baltimore readers were informed of the Annapolis and Baltimore Short Line Railroad developments and related industry updates. Official notices referenced by name outline corporate actions and regional transportation implications.
Florentines celebrate Ascension Day at Cascini park with a large meadow festival. Monks bless the crowd from St Vito, crickets are captured and fed in cages, and children cherish their singing pet grilli. The day centers on a family picnic and lively Tuscan entertainments with wine and shared meals.
Otto Peters sent up a 550 pound sturgeon, 11 feet 4 inches, to rank C Barnes. Onlookers crowded the Third and Morrison sidewalk as tales grew of a 14 foot, 900 pound Cascades sturgeon and others said to be 18 feet and 1500 pounds in the Snake River, Alaska, and more, before the crowd dispersed.
An Englishman claims to have invented a four car combination locomotive bicycle capable of moving eighty passengers per car at one hundred miles an hour. He suggests the invention may enter the market alongside Keely's motor, as reported by the Scranton Truth.
Patrick Dunn reports a northwest Storey county spring can restore youth. He claims veteran Jeff, aged over sixty five, regains hair color, firming of skin, and upright vigor after four daily baths and heavy water intake. Dunn plans another test on a millionaire for 75 percent of wealth.
A Belgian canal connects coal regions to Brussels and Paris, crossing other canals at the same grade. Boats of about seventy tons rise or descend via submerged tanks and hydraulic elevators to move between levels, avoiding lock delays as they traverse hilly terrain.
A Sunday preacher found his Bible altered by mischievous boys who pasted two leaves together. He read Noah’s wife as forty cubits broad and one hundred forty cubits long, then quipped that it is more evidence that man is fearfully and wonderfully made. The note appears in the San Francisco Argonaut.
A Walnut street car ride near Nineteenth and Jefferson was interrupted by a swarm of bees that settled on the mules and caused chaos as passengers fled. Nearby, a resident at Dr Cawein’s corner reportedly used dust to chase the insects into a tree before bees were finally shifted.
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