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Newspaper
Greencastle Herald
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 03, 1920
Page
2
A fragmented listing of sale items for a Thursday Friday and Saturday event. Includes Best Hard Wheat Flour 24 Ibs Hove, sugar cured bacon, navy beans, bulk coffee, prunes, dried fruits, Mazola oil in various sizes, apple butter, syrup, brooms, toilet paper, matches, canned milks, soaps, cleaners and other household staples.
Public notices indicate the Greencastle Indiana post office lists the Herald as second class mail matter. Charles J. Arnold is proprietor, with publication daily except Sunday at 17 and 198 Jackson Street Greencastle Indiana. Telephones listed. Cards of thanks and obituaries are charged fees. Poetry lines incur 5 cent per line extra.
Hendricks County's Jacob E Cravin and Vigo County's Charles J Batt join the Democratic slate for Congress. W E Gill of Cloverdale campaigns for Putnam county representative while Fay S Hamilton seeks prosecuting attorney. Otto G Webb of Marion township and Allen Eggers of Jackson township file for Putnam county treasurer and sheriff respectively. Fred Lancaster of Madison township also enters the Putnam sheriff race ahead of the May 4 primary.
Democratic primary election set for May 4 1920 with multiple sheriff candidates. Edward H Eitle of Putnam County announces as a sheriff candidate subject to the primary decision. Vermandes C Hurst of Greencastle also seeks the nomination. Will Glidewen of Warren Township enters the race to lead the sheriff’s office under the party primary.
Notices announce several candidates for Putnam county sheriff in the Democratic primary on May 4 1920. Jesse M Hamrick E S Lige Wallace and Harkins L Jackson are listed as contenders with Green Castle Greencastle Marion Township ties and calls for voters to support their bids.
Reese R. Buis of Marion Township announces candidacy for Second district commissioner subject to Democratic primary on May 4 1920. David J. Skelton of Washington Township seeks Third district seat with Democratic primary on May 4 1920.
J J Hendrix of Washington town seeks the Putnam county Third district commissionership. The campaign focuses on local governance and district priorities as the race heats up.
A Day of Marion township announces to Democratic voters in Putnam county his candidacy for commissioner of the Second district, subject to the outcome of the Democratic primary election on May 4, 1920.
A Wide World Magazine piece notes the Greenland Eskimo lives simply without tea coffee sugar or tobacco and views his homeland as highly desirable. It explains the seal provides meat fat skins for clothing and gear while driftwood and local materials supply tools and shelter, with luxury items scarce.
Drs J Diner and G Horstman tested stamps from 50 places for microbes and found infection on every stamp. Germs include colon bacilli staphylococci streptococci pneumococcus and diphtheria bacilli. The Medical Times notes nearly everyone carries these germs, but licking stamps is a dirty habit.
In summer 1919 passengers on a Hudson River ferry in New York witnessed a canoe sailing across the river behind the boat without propulsion. The canoe rode the ferry’s wake on the forward side of each wave, keeping pace as the wave carried it along, a phenomenon explained by a Scientific American writer.
A newlywed woman returns from her honeymoon to a town with her husband tied to business. She meets a schoolmate who invites a dinner with her, then discovers the guest named Harry is her first husband. An embarrassing moment follows as the friend exclaims familiarity.
Italy trains about 1500 blind veterans for employment and aids reading via a pocket battery belt with needles that prick in response to recorded letters. Some soldiers lack arms or legs, and devices help them read despite their disabilities.
An Italian company has perfected a process to remove impurities from oysters. Oysters from the Venetian coast are shipped to Rome, shells washed, then placed in sterilized seawater tanks. The flowing water washes impurities as the oysters undergo a week of treatment before shipment to retailers.
In Warren Ohio a local scout defender defined hash as something that accumulates not is made. The answering Warren boy scout earned the cooking merit badge medal.
An advertisement notes irregular or delayed use of Triumph Pills, claiming safety and dependability. Sold not at drug stores and urges readers to write for relief and particulars. Free informational offer from the National Medical Institute in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Pattie Maddux, a 62 year old blind postal worker, repairs and replaces mail bag components earning 3.60 daily. She belongs to a 246 person team manufacturing and retiring mail bags and locks for the U S Postal Service. The 1919 output shows 472,850 new sacks costing 80,000. 10,368 equipment pieces. repaired 2,582,682 bags at 7.4 cents each. salvaged 13,000 old pouches. over 1,000,000 locks renewed. a new fireproof shop and twine use totaling 2,100,000 pounds.
American relief workers provide dental treatment to needy Poles at the American Red Cross headquarters in War saw Poland, delivering care amid postwar relief efforts.
Mrs Thad Tillery of Geneva Ohio keeps a goldfish a canary and a cat as “strangest friends” all living in harmony. The canary feeds the cat who saves crumbs for the bird and tosses crumbs to the goldfish. The canary rests on the cat’s neck while the trio grieves that Pete the goldfish cannot leave the bowl to roam.
A Philadelphia syndicate purchased all wartime houses built by the United States shipping board near the Hog Island shipyard. The bid totaled 5 541 000 dollars for 1 471 houses, signaling a major postwar consolidation of wartime housing assets.
James Tolliver, bitten nurses and frightened several staff as hydrophobia raged in a Birmingham hospital ward before an attendant fatally shot him.
Supt J B Oursler of Carnegie Steel sets up a cost price store for 12 500 workmen to curb profiteering. A local profiteer asks if he will shut it, Oursler replies it is a naive question. A Pike County farmer disrupts an inquiry office asking about engravers strikes.
In a 1910s-era observation the Ohio State Journal notes that Lloyds will not insure happiness in international marriages with nobility. It warns that many American women who wed titled foreigners face heartbreak and financial strain, citing Nellie Grant as a cautionary example and urging prudence for those courted by penniless nobles.
Modern Medicine credits medicine with wartime triumphs but notes most disabilities arise from disease rather than wounds. English pensions show 58 percent of pensions to Sept 1, 1918 for disease, with tuberculosis 11.2 percent, rheumatism 6.5 percent, heart disease 0.9 percent. American figures incomplete. 7,710 cases handled by the federal board of vacation through Jan 31, 1919 were predominantly disease related.
An Alberta report to the penitentiary superintendents notes 70 acres under cultivation at the Edmonton penitentiary farm last year. After purchasing a tractor for 1814 dollars, net profit reached 4191.17 dollars. Wheat yielded 45 bushels per acre from 9.5 acres, potatoes produced 3500 bushels from 11 acres, oats gave 85 bushels per acre, and vegetables were exceptionally good, highlighting profitable intensive farming.
Hawaii historians claim the Hawaiian monarchy was the first government to enforce prohibition. Kamehameha the Great, in 1705 after conquering the islands, issued an edict with drastic penalties, stripping offenders of property and banishing them from villages in loin cloths.
The Chefoo hair net trade suffers chaos as Shanghai buyers bypass firms and buy directly from Chingchowfu makers, breaking contracts. Prices have surged about 300 percent due to the competition and supply disruption.
Miss Alice Wade, famed as high priestess of youth and wealth, falls for Professor Aboukar Hamad who promises mystic revelations and a week of hermit seclusion. The scam collapses when the professor and aides are exposed for counterfeiting, leading Wade to flee with Robert Simms who vows to shield her from scandal.
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