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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Sep 29, 1906
Page
2
A political brief announces Thomas A. Smith of Caroline County as the Democratic candidate for Congress. The notice presents Smith as the party’s nominee, outlining the ticket heading and district focus in a concise campaign card style.
The piece cites Hipple of the Real Estate Trust in Philadelphia, discusses hypocrisy in religious professing officials, notes Atlanta race riots with limited captures, and critiques political races in New York and Maine. It urges voter registration and warns of rising national tensions, referencing President Roosevelt and race issues.
The Clansman by Thomas Dixon Jr returns to the Academy of Music Baltimore for one week starting Monday Oct 1. It depicts Reconstruction era South with Ku Klux Klan images and a Northern woman heroine amid a love story, drawing record advance ticket orders.
Miscellaneous notes advise owners of fine dhysanthemums to transplant now to protect them from expected frosts. After potting, keep in shade and very wet for several days, then gradually introduce to sun. Buds set means too late for transplanting and higher risk of failure. Also reports Soper to store apples in Philadelphia, plus postal and maritime wage actions.
The estate of Capt. Andrew Wood all, of Kent, valued at more than six hundred thousand dollars. Eugene M. Douwill and Alday Clements serve on the commission to divide the property, mainly fine farms, while the old St. Michael's Methodist Protestant Church is torn down to make way for a new church costing about 10,000 dollars. Tomatoes bring 46 cents a basket in Federalsburg, the high point this week. Forty five car loads of keifer pears shipped from Wyoming. Court attendance expected next week. Ex Judge Joseph A. Wickes has been ill.
Observers claim winter will be unusually severe based on katydid activity bush abundance in parks and fields berry and nut crops and signs of barn mice nesting. They cite holly berries corn husk fullness and forest fruit as food indicators while many trust local predictions over official forecasts.
A Boston physician tells the Jleraid that eating three to four apples daily can curb alcohol cravings, with added benefit if the drinker smokes little. He cites trials on forty to fifty drunks and a wife who kept fruit on the table to cure her husband without his knowledge. Also note ad copy for wall paper and window shades from Thomas & Messer at 1015 W Baltimore St. Baltimore.
Letter from F W Devoe & Co New York compares paint quality and value. It warns cheaper paints are adulterated and require more product to cover surfaces. Notes that a single 10 gallon Devoe job costs about $50 while inferior paints cost more per job. Ends with shop sale through Smith & Walls.
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