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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Sep 29, 1917
Page
6
The Panola ladies, five exclusive sisters and their mother, are described as a unified, ambered group with a shared fate. Bixby the storekeeper dismisses their plight yet is warned by Mrs. Bixby about meddling with their estate and future. The scene unfolds near the plantation with cotton grounds and a tense exchange over aid and prospects.
Jonas Bixby's clerk tailed by a loyal bookkeeper confronts a staged break in at Panda Estate. Miss Maude Dalton and sisters defend their home with pistols as a mysterious intruder loses his straw hat in the ensuing chaos and a tavern encounter may reveal the plot's next move.
A tangled scene unfolds as a drummer, claimed fiancé, and a cousin plot to secure a wedding ring. A mistaken identity and a clever ruse collide when a box with Miss Dalton’s trousseau travels via trunks to Bixby’s gallery, while a requested pickup at six o’clock tests loyalties and plans.
In a sudden flood the otter niche at Chaparral faced disruption as Onyx and SiS debated the impact. The event triggered tears and questions about trouble, while Chaparral residents watched the torrent and a hasty search for a new hat.
The article traces ancient Greek military formation the phalanx a square body of pikemen with joined shields and overlapping pikes. It notes initial 4000 men later doubled by Philip II of Macedon creating the Macedonian phalanx and cites Paulybius on a 16 by 500 square of pikemen with 23 foot spears and interlocking pikes for force and momentum.
A traveler in De Courcy Thom's Midsummer Motoring In Europe tells a boy aboard a voyage a punny exchange. The boy says the ocean stretches beyond sight hinting at a wide horizon. The humor rests on perspective as the boy points to the far side of the ship.
The Nebrew word for scepter originally signified a rod or staff and served as a ruler's wand. It later referred to the shepherds crook. Early Nebrew scepters were likely wooden while the Persian monarchs scepter described as golden implies immense gold.
The piece contrasts the embroiderer with the common workman in Exodus. It notes extensive embroidery by ancient nations with the Egyptians and Babylonians famed for it. It adds that needle embroidery was a later Phrygian invention.
A humorous exchange questions what a periphirists is, with a pompous answer calling it a circumlocutory and pleonastic cycle of oratorical sonorosity. The taunting reply ends with a dismissive insult.
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