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Newspaper
Greencastle Herald
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 02, 1928
Page
2
By mail in Putnam County eight dollars yearly. Outside Putnam County three fifty per year. In Greencastle by carrier ten cents weekly. Weekly edition priced at fifteen sixty dollars per year. Advertising gates on application.
Dolores Costello stars in a Warner Bros adaption of a tense crime novel. Rose Shannon, framed for the Mercer Bank robbery, is released but pursued by detectives and a crook gang led by a professor. Chuck White and Molly weave a dangerous cover while lawmen hunt the truth amid early spring city scenes and a seaside Battery backdrop.
The Granada will show Across the Atlantic on Friday and Saturday. The film follows an intrepid aviator on a non stop ocean hop and is said to have taken the country by storm. It is expected to be one of the outstanding pictures of the season.
Miss Marjorie Duncan spent the weekend with the Duncans in Spencer. Marion friends Biddie and Martha Funi can visited J. McCoy. Lou Byrd, staying with the Sinclairs, was called to Stinesville by her grandson Malcolm Taylor’s illness. Merle Rogers returned from Indianapolis with her sister Deleia Lee Rogers. Reverend Harmon and Bert Sandy with Guinevere were in Indianapolis Friday. Mrs. Stimson and Mrs. Freberger of Huntingsburg plan a visit this week. Anna Jobie, nursing Oscar Vaughn, returned home. C. G. Shaw of Bloomington visited relatives near Cloverdale. Mrs. Pickens hosted Mary Elizabeth Spangler, Dorothy Grenwell, Mary and Esther Morrison Monday night. Nellie McDonald visited Bessie Spalding, at Indiana University Bloomington. Hurst & Byrd grocery renamed Arthur Pickens’ store. Clyde Grey’s Clinton Street house reconstruction nears completion. J Huber of Chicago and Flora Masten of Coatesville visited Addison Huber Wednesday. Mr and Mrs James Meek spent Sunday with Charles Lisby. Mr and Mrs Marion Miller visited Ellsworth Brown. Brown is poorly. Canaan Economics Club met with Mrs Gertie Minter. ten members present.
In Somerset area threshing began last week with a small acreage yielding low. Rev. Trotter is expected to fill the pulpit next Sunday morning and evening. Local visits and family gatherings include Edna Ferrand's return from Cousin Dorothy Flint, and Edith Singleton's health trip from Martinsville to visit sister Mrs Earl OHair. Families from Greencastle Roachdale Russellville Oklahoma and Fillmore joined Sunday activities including Flint and Cox households. Ada and Velma Braden returned to Greencastle Telephone Co. duties after two weeks at home.
Mrs Susie Lisby hosted a Sunday School class party Friday afternoon. Attendees joined funeral services for Mrs Lawrence Smith Thursday and Mrs Tom Miller Sunday. Families of Eggers Haver Heavin Morphew Huber Wells Miller and Smith visited and spent Sunday with relatives in the area.
Harry Hunter and family attended S. W. Hunter's birthday dinner at Albert and. Ruth Higgins of Indianapolis visits home. Numerous neighbors and relatives, including Ruarks, Newmans, Buis, Storms, and Websters, called on ill Mrs. Storm of Coat esville and joined various visits around Corn Stalk Valley through Sunday and Tuesday activities.
Raymond Navarro headlines the Metro Goldwyn Mayer sea romance Across to Singapore directed by William Nigh at the Voncastle Theatre. Joan Crawford co stars as the female lead in a tale of love, mutiny, storms, and pirate dangers filmed aboard the Narwahl cruise.
A brief note states the work is adapted from a sea romance by Ben Ames Williams, a noted novelist and Saturday Evening Post author.
The Chevrolet Motor Company announces a new utility truck added to its line. It features a four speeds forward transmission, four wheel brakes, and channel steel bumper. Production started July 2 and it will be shown in dealers' showrooms nationwide. The new transmission improves engine power use with an extra low gear for heavy roads and steep grades, plus a power take-off port for optional devices.
Allen Stoner son of Cecil Stoner was struck by a car Saturday night in Bainbridge and badly hurt with a broken leg chest injury three fractured ribs and a fractured hip. Agnes Curran drove the car and failed to see him. The Oliver reunion is moved to August 19 at the school house.
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A vintage style ad warns that roaches live in colonies and threaten households with disease. It urges readers to spray FLY-TOX into cracks and around water pipes, presenting the product as a stainless, fragrant, easy solution developed at a research fellowship.
Gardner Bros report new shipment of refrigerators in stock with duotone color options. Prices reduced to close the season to attract buyers and clear inventory.
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