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Newspaper
Greencastle Herald
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 04, 1923
Page
2
The notice states pricing for obituaries at 1 dollar per obituary and poetry lines at 5 cents per line. It also mentions Cards of Thanks priced at 50 dollars each. The signatory details are not provided in the readable text.
The Turner County Georgia dairy cow hog and poultry program replaces cotton after boll weevil damage. In two years farm income reached 1,000,000 dollars with average 600 per farm. Creamery grew from 100 to 500 patrons. hogs and chicks numbers rise. 40 purebred bulls exist. county cooperates with extension agents for a lasting shift to diversified farming.
Advice from Extension Farm Engineer W. J. McPheeters urges a pure drinking water supply by preventing contamination. Build wells with clay linings, ten feet of soil filtration, watertight platforms, sloped ground, and proper drainage. Avoid pits and cess pools near wells and use sanitary toilets or tanks.
The St. Joseph Gazette offers a hopeful note advising readers to cheer up and consider the money saved on items they cannot afford, echoed by the Boston Transcript.
A medieval rule required 200 feet of roadside clearance on each side to curb highway robbers. The practice aimed to remove brush that could hide attackers and improve visibility for passersby and guards.
A brief quotation notes that the devil is near to rulers who answer to no one but God, attributed to Gustavus Adolphus in a reflection on accountability and power.
A Long Island observer notes the geographic setup yields limited benefit with views of the sound on one side and a harsher landscape on the other, suggesting the coast offers uneven advantages rather than clear gains.
Gallup New Mexico the Navajo sand paintings by White Singer and other chiefs are transferred to the walls of the newly dedicated Hotel El Navajo. The ritual art remains symbolic not pictorial and is blessed in a house blessing ceremony to invite good spirits and drive away evil.
Olive Hill Kentucky businessman John Milton Pipnery was found dead after a suicide at his home. Reports say he paid all his debts and held a final prayer, then announced his soul was at peace before hanging himself.
The Bureau of Fisheries tagged a quantity of fish with small numbered seals to study migratory habits. James M McDonald of Portland Maine found a seal numbered 11087 on the fin of a 17 1 2 pound cod near Nantucket Shoals. Investigations indicate the tag originated from a sea area off Nantucket.
In Rio de Janeiro the Casa dos Expostos operates a revolving door for mothers to entrust infants without identity. Babies are baptized by name if notes are attached and are not returned. Since 1738 the institution has aided over 45,000 residents, many adopted by couples.
The Westminster Gazette reports Bertie Berryman of Mells colliery in Frome Somerset killed his workmate William Button by firing the wrong shot. Grief drove Berryman to end his life with a detonator and electric battery, leaving a note to his wife and children. The inquest ruled Button’s death accidental and Berryman’s suicide as a result of his grief.
Judge John A. McMahon in the United States branch of police court ruled that a duck is an animal. Roland Thouias, colored, was convicted of cruelty to animals and fined five dollars after a report of a live duck tied in an ice pan with half frozen and half roasted in sun. Mrs. Franklin Thomas of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals testified to the incident on Ninth street June 9.
After a month long salvage effort, the wreck of the Peninsula and Orient liner Egypt is believed located off Ushant. British engineers expect to recover about 5 million dollars in bullion from the sunken ship sunk in early 1922 after a collision.
Dredging of Frontera port to admit large steamers is finished unlocking a banana export boom. Frontera gathered over 4,000,000 banana bunches last year, but inadequate harbor facilities prevented moving more than half.
For 18 months Greer Oklahoma had a modern paid fire department with no alarms. Early one morning a lunch room owned by a colored man burned despite a full turnout. Citizens judged the department rusty due to lack of practice.
In a Chicago Journal reminiscence a prospector recalls a vivid dream of his father’s death by a falling tree. He had planned zinc mining with base at Joplin. After dream he checked mail in Joplin and found a telegram confirming the fatal news. The address he used shifted daily between here and there.
The Boss asks if the sign offering two tires for 50 and one free tire has been posted. The New Salesman reports limited success selling the 25 dollar tires but has given away all the free tires.
Jefferson urges unity in collective action and warns that fragmentation into squads weakens effort and invites greater control by opponents. The quote emphasizes disciplined, mass movement over scattered, self directed paths.
A reflection on leadership citing Kossuth that no one can force individuality on the public but may influence public sentiment by tapping into the people's instinct and heart. The piece emphasizes inspiration drawn from the collective will rather than coercion.
A brief reflective line from Cowper about wishing to relive time and recapture happiness once missed. The excerpt emphasizes regret over past choices and the desire to retry youth with new insight.
The Everglades region in Florida is the nation's largest catfish producer, shipping between five and six million pounds of fish each season.
A friend quotes a saying about education noting that an educated person knows how to find what he wants to know. The remark appears in a casual exchange.
A reflective piece asserting beauty stems from honesty and moral truth, citing Shaftesbury’s maxim that beauty is truth and truth is beauty, highlighting the natural harmony between integrity and aesthetics.
A terse quotation attributes a drastic mindset to Ruskin via Ituskin, urging readers to identify personal failings and, if aware of a way to end it, to take that option, reflecting troubling antique sensibilities.
A humorous note from the Allentown Record about a husband who dislikes his wife choosing his neckties, while the man with leg whiskers remains unconcerned about her purchases.
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