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Maryland State Archives Jeffersonian, Towson, Maryland mdsa_sc3410_1_63-0280 Enlarge and print image (5M) |
| THE JEFFERSONIAN, TOWSON, MARYLAND. September 4, 1920—Page 3 All Towson Shares Our Success Not only does our plant afford pleasant and healthful employment for hundreds of Towsonites, but everyone in Towson is benefited by the additional money that is brought to Towson. This money comes from all over the United States, and from many foreign countries as well. A considerable portion of it is spent in Towson, contributing largely to the general prosperity. This is money which is brought into Towson from outside, not merely the circulation of money that is already here. THE BLACK & DECKER MFG. CO. 11 The Good Will Plant'7 Makers of Electric Air Compressors, Portable Electric Drills and Electric Valve Grinders General Offices and Factory TOWSON HEIGHTS/MARYLAND 'BEN" FRANKLIN NOT FIRST Contention Made That New Hampshire Had the Earliest Periodical in the United States. I claim that the oldest periodical In the United States is the New Hampshire Gazette, published weekly at Portsmouth and founded in 1756, the next in age being the Weekly Mercury, published at Newport, R. I., and founded in 1758. "Benjamin Franklin did not found the Saturday Evening Post or any other paper in 1728. The Pennsylvania Gazette was founded in 1728 by Samuel Keimer, who did not make a financial success of it and sold it to Franklin. It was first called The Universal Instructor in All Arts and Sciences and Pennsylvania Gazette. In his autobiography Franklin says of Keimer and the Gazette: 'He began his paper, however, and after carrying it on three-quarters of a year, with at most ninety subscribers, he offered it to me for a trifle; and I, having been ready for some time to go on with it, took it in hand directly; and it proved In a few years extremely profitable to me.'" Samuel Atkinson and Charles Alexander combined the subscription lists of the Pennsylvania Gazette and the Bee and issued the first number of the Saturday Evening Post on August 4, 1821, and the Gazette and the Bee went out of existence forever. Thomas Cot-trell Clarke was the first editor of the Post. All old newspaper directories give 1821 as the year the Post was established. BOSSY HAD DELIRIOUS "JAG «IAIV> Results of Imbibing Barrel of Home Brew Disastrous to Morals of Sedate Old Cow. Milk, that mild and healthful beverage beloved of the young, usually held in light esteem by the antiprohibition-ist, but— It happened not long ago—since Jan. 16—in the mining camp of Sand Coulee, Montana. A "Bohunk" miner's wife, apparently seeking to keep her lord and master in good humor, mixed a barrel of home brew guaranteed %o develop a real kick, and set it out in the yard to ferment. A neighbor's cow happened along and tasted. One taste led to another, and finally the barrel was empty. But not so the cow. She was most decidedly and satisfactorily "full." Anyway, bossy was fighting drunk, and she started out to clean up that mining camp, and succeeded almost completely. But she met her Wellington in Deputy Sheriff Adolphson. The cow charged the sheriff, who dodged. Then bossy suffered from the hallucination that has afflicted humans under similar circumstances. She gave evidence of seeing a multitude of Sheriff Adolphsons, and finally tiring herself with aimless charges fell down and asleep. When she awoke next day her "jag" was over. But it is reported that her milk sold at a premium for several days among the strong men of the camp.—Wall Street Journal. RAISE MORE HOGS AT LESS COST BY USING HOG FEED The most valuable pig for a breeder to raise is the one^that will give him the most money for the feed consumed. Spring Garden Hog Feed is all food, no waste. The protein content is practically all digestible as compared with 70 % digestibility in corn. It is made from corn germ or hearts, corn oil meal, corn bran and part of the crown portion of the kernel. Thoroughly kiln-dried and sterilized; packed clean by machinery; free from dust and adulterants. Guaranteed to keep pure and sweet and do all we claim for it or money back. Write for samples and prices if your dealer cannot supply you with Spring Garden Hog Feed, Horse Feed, Dairy Feed, Hominy Feed BALTIMORE PEARL HOMINY CO. SEABOARD CORN MILLS HOWARD STREET PIER BALTIMORE, MARYLAND 10-8-1* PECULIAR KIND OF UMBRELLA African "Bishop" Made Use of Prince Albert Coat When Rain Threatened Precious Loincloth. "The Bishop" is like no other Afri« can. He has acquired the graces of the court of St. James and a surprising gift of repartee, using smiles and grunts chiefly. He is taller and older than any native in the neighborhood, which is the locality suburban to Va-vati, Portuguese East. For years he has trekked with missionaries. He haa carried their packs, bundled their beds and mosquito netting over miles of trail. His name was chosen by himself, in memory of Bishop Hartzell, with whom he traveled. Yet the bishop Is still a heathen— and proud of it. Among the other Africans in any given traveling party he is as conscious of his heathen distinction as Tom Sawyer's friend Jim was of his reputation for having seen evil spirits. On a recent expedition a missionary saw the bishop for the first time and was particularly struck with the bishop's pride in his loincloth, a well-tailored trifle fashioned from monkey skin and built around a large brass ring. It began to rain. The bishop looked solicitously at the garment— much as a lady caught umbrellaless will look at her new spring suit when rain comes. The bishop had no umbrella, but from somewhere he produced a Prince Albert coat and buttoned it tightly about him. It served its purpose. The new loincloth escaped unscathed.—World Outlook. ANCIENT AND MODERN NAMES Writer Contends That Present-Day Appellations Lack the Euphony of the Olden Times. Speaking of New England names, the genealogical columns of the Transcript are indeed a standing proof that the seventeenth and eighteenth century names possessed much more of snap, flavor and euphony than our twentieth century names possess. Pick up the genealogical department at random—any day—and you will find such fine and resonant names as Betsey Keyes, Patty Holbrook, Susanna Gates, Polly Arnold, Darius Dewey, Prudence Rand, Thankful Sawyer, Thankful Newcomb, Hannah Pike, Deborah Clark, and Jonathan Rich—all of which are from one recent column. It is true that the same column contains names which are not exactly euphonious, and are indeed rather hard nuts to crack; these, for example: Leafy Bullard—a woman; whence the name of Leafy—Hatsel Higgins, Sparrow Higgins, Abigail Nash, Zeruiah Jewel, and Alcy Lock-wood. In the previous number of the same department are found the names Content Brown. Tabitha Holdredge, and Keturah Bassett. The Nomad once encountered in an old book the name of Camilla Scud-der. Was there ever a swifter name than that? And what about the name of Hepzibah Hathaway of New Bedford, found in Emery's book on the Howland Heirs?—The Nomad in Boston Transcript. Sand—$6,000 a Ton. Wilmington, Del., has a dozen of the most expensive sand piles in the world. It costs $6,000 a ton, says the Portland Oregonian. The reason for this, and incidentally a reason for high-priced gloves, was revealed the other day by a prominent leather merchant. Wilmington is the chief glazed-kid center in the United States. About 20 per cent of the raw skins entering the United States come from China and are imported at the rate of about $1 a pound. "What, then," asked the merchant, "would be more natural to the cunning celestials than to increase the weight of the skins by sprinkling sand on them?" That is just* what happens and the result is huge piles of sand at receiving plants here, where the hides are dried and prepared for manufacture. Origin of Surnames. No one can say with any certainty when the practice of taking a surname became general. The Greeks, Assyrians, Egyptians and other ancient peoples had no surnames; the later Romans had each one real personal name, to which they sometimes added a clan rXame or nomen, a family name or cognomen and a nickname or agnomen. The personal or Christian name was the only name recognized by early English law, surnames being words of description used to identify persons of the same name from each other. The Normans had introduced into England the habit of using surnames, but this was confined to the upper classes. By degrees even the common people began to be distinguished by names referring to personal characteristics, as Armstrong, rank or profession as Smith, father's name as Jackson, etc. Fish and the Ancients. The ancient Romans thought very highly of fish, and at big banquets brilliant fish were shown to the guests, alive, as a relish, then were served cooked after the soup. Apicus offered a prize to any culinary artist who would invent a new marinade compounded of livers of the red mullet. Lucullus had a canal cut through a mountain so that fish might be transported more easily to the ponds in his gardens near Naples. Hortensius wept ever the death of a pet turbot while the daughter of Drusus adorned a favorite fish with a collar of gold. Sharing Your Books. The woi'ld is full of shut-ins, and there are those who are starving for books and papers, but how many of us make any effort to search them out? A ^lever article on books which I lately read annoyed me by explaining how stupid is the custom of borrowing books, and how vastly more desirable it is for each man to own his own. I decided that the writer was a rich man (although my better judgment should tell me that writers seldom are rich), and I decided also that he was missing a lot of good things if he neither lends nor borrows books. I believe that a book is about the pleasantest thing there is to share. It produces such a bond of sympathy if it is enjoyed by a friend, and- it provides at once something worth while to talk about. And people do return books, especially if you put your name and "please return" inside and remember where your books are visiting.—Ella Wister Haines Id Ohr*««*« TToraid. Must Have Known wnat Was Coming. "Yon remember the real estate men who used to advertise that buying your own home was better than paying rent." "Yes." "Well, they certainly knew what they were talking about, didn't they?" Economy. Without economy none can be rich, and with it few wil' be poor.—Doctor Johnson. Appeal to Snobbishness. "That umbrella repairer has a flattering approach." "What is it?" "First asks the lady of the house if she has any golf clubs to mend."— Louisville Courier-Journal. The Answer. "Why do they try so much hot air pressure on witnesses?" "I suppose it is because they want to pump them." JOHN WARD Licensed Auctioneer WOODLAWN 6-19-52 w Baltimore County, Md WILLIAM WHITNEY County Surveyor For Baltimore County COURT HOUSE TOWSON, MD. l-14-ly Telephone, Towson 456 FAIRYFOOT Bunion Plasters— Remarkable comfort for bunion sufferers. Give instant relief, take out inflammation—reduce swellings, will make your feet feel right and look right. Give it a trial. You must be satisfied or you get your money back. HERGENRATHER DRUG CO. Towson, Maryland. TO-DAY modern transportation is necessary to every^ business. The day has long gone by when any old time will do for making deliveries. Every business concern and farmer in* America is working hard to increase their efficiency in the commercial world. IS YOUR TRANSPORTATION DEPARTMENT a holdback to your progress? If so, let us tell you how we can bring this department up to the 100% mark with "BROCKWAY THE RIGHT WAY." Brockway Motor Truck Co. of Baltimore, inc. 1921-27 NORTH CHARLES STREET MT. VERNON 1866 See Our Exhibition At Entrance Of Timonium Fair Govans Central Garage York Road—Adjoining Funk's Hotel GOVANS, MD. Right on your way to the city. Now open for business, with an up-to-date Machine Repair Shop and full line of Automobile Tires, Tubes, Accessories, Oils, Gasoline andf Amoco Gas, the new motor fuel. Agents For The CHEVROLET MOTOR CARS AND TRUCKS 24 Hour Service and a Service That Will Appeal To You If it is good service that you desire with moderate prices, a trial is all that is necessary to have a continuance of your patronage. Free Air—All You Want. All kinds of Ignition Work. Battery Recharge and Repair. Detroit Batteries for all makes of cars. laryland State Archives mdsa_sc34io_i_63-028o.jj |