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Newspaper
Greencastle Herald
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 27, 1920
Page
3
The essay argues the golden age lies around age sixty, when peace from passions and mastery of work bring prosperity and comfort. It contrasts ages eighty to ninety as a quieter, costly stage, while noting some never wish to live and that life’s value varies among individuals, with few suicides among the very old.
A mother reminds her son Bobby that God is omnipresent as he fears the back porch darkness. He cautiously asks God to pass the milk bottle, illustrating a child’s grasp of divine presence.
The article recalls Oklahoma oil conditions as the Cushing pool faced surplus output. Production exceeded storage and transport, oil stored behind earthen dikes and in dry creeks dammed to form reservoirs. Resulting excess pushed prices to 40 cents a barrel, not due to refinery value but lack of transport to Chicago or Bayonne, with new wells opening daily. It also notes Ray Morris in The World's Work. A lighter aside quotes Mrs Jenkins and Jeremiah reacting to a ship launch anecdote involving the duchess of Dampshire.
A stranger and Three Finger Sam debate the impact of whiskey and prohibition in Crimson Gulch. The exchange suggests harsher attitudes toward Indigenous people, reflecting stereotyped Western pulp dialogue from the Washington Star.
Yorick Hamm suspects a big movie run while Hamlet Fatt believes he can make it. The pair discusses hiring a litter of puppies and a trick mate to boost acting prospects, reflecting entrepreneurial hopes in early cinema.
Senator Sorghum rebukes a colleague over politics during a tense exchange. The dialog centers on defining political maneuvering, with a sharp metaphor about a man fleeing an Irascible bull as a vivid image of perceived pursuit. The exchange highlights partisan friction without concrete policy detail.
A piece notes trees planted nationwide as memorials to American soldiers who died in the world war. Individual trees and grove plans form a memorial network called memory trees, with school and community participation and a rotating committee to maintain the Washington Force School tree once Quentin Roosevelt attended.
A historical sketch recalls the first mule sent to George Washington from Spain, its size and tempers, and the public uproar it caused during tours. It notes Washington’s fondness for mules and hints at breed ambitions. then shifts to Ada Tingley of Idaho, who traps predators with a six-line, fifty-bait setup daily, using a secret fish bait. The piece closes with a wartime censorship quip.
Classified listing fragment noting O T Ellis as recorder and architect contractor W H Evans Greencastle Indiana. also items including housekeeper wanted, eggs for sale, an Overland Roadster for sale, sale of livestock, rug for sale, pocketbook reward, job ads for day and night shifts and truck hauling. dated Apr 26 and May.
A French glass devised to resist burglary aims to curb show window thefts. Made about three quarters of an inch thick, it relies on thickness and careful manufacture. On test it withstood a ten‑pound iron disk, a blow that would shatter ordinary plate glass.
The Jefferson and Cloverdale township road repairs in Putnam County invite bids for 1000 to 1500 yards of crushed stone with crusher run size 1 1 2 inches, ready by June 1 1920. Also bids for gravel for northern county repairs and four car loads of Emascrete seal coat material. Bids due 10 a m Saturday May 1 1920. Commissioners R E Larkin CW Dagey Chas Driver and auditor R E Knoll attest.
A wood-boring beetle in California disrupts telephone service by boring into the wire enclosures, allowing water intrusion and rendering lines unusable until repairs are done. No solution exists yet, and experts joke about training wireworms or tapeworms to seal holes.
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