Denton Journal in Denton, Maryland

Odd Anecdotes From A Stormy Night On The Sea And Street

A passenger on an ocean steamer misplaced an iron deck chair in the pilothouse causing the ship to stray from its course for half an hour after the chair was abandoned. A professor and his head student tested insulation in winter with bizarre results when a stiff felt hat wire misled readings. A North Pennsylvania Street woman faced a strange visitor asking to hire her servant, who calmly proposed waiting on the neighbor’s porch for the servant’s return, a tale the mistress found bolder than piracy.