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Newspaper
Greencastle Herald
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1913
Page
2
An archival Greencastle Indiana newspaper masthead lists editors Charles J. Arnold and William T. Sitlington with the Star Democrat Publishing Company. Address 17 and 19 South Dacks Street, Greencastle, IN, phone 65, subscription rates 2 cents per copy and 6 cents weekly, $3.00 yearly.
Beginning June 1 the Monon Route offers greatly reduced round trip fares to Atlantic and Pacific Coast points including Colorado Michigan and other resorts. Address a card to the undersigned for literature and full information by return mail. W W Dilgis Traveling Passenger Agent Monon Route Bedford and
Summer tourist excursion takes effect June 1 to September. final return limit: Jet. List includes all points in Alberta Arizona British Columbia California Colorado Idaho Illinois Kentucky Manitoba Maryland Mexico Michigan Minnesota Montana New Mexico North Carolina Ontario Oregon South Dakota Tennessee Utah Virginia Washington West Virginia Wisconsin Wyoming. For rates and times of trains and reservations apply Agent Monion Route J Bellis Agent.
Madison Township trustee notices state sessions at the trustee's residence office on Wednesdays and Saturdays. Will Stroube is listed as trustee candidate or current trustee in the notice.
Ernest Kivett states he will be at his Mill Creek Township home on Wednesdays and Saturdays each week to transact office business.
Benjamin Walls states he will be at his office in Jackson Township every Friday to transact the business of his office as trustee.
Jefferson Township records state Oliver Stringer will conduct office business at his residence every Tuesday and Saturday and at Memubridge every Wednesday. V Etcheson will attend Flow Township residence Wednesdays for office business, with Fred Todd.
Resident Otto B Rector lists weekly attendance at his Marion Township home each Friday and at Fillmore every Tuesday to conduct official business and inquiries.
Fragmentary text touts Humphreys medicines as scientifically prepared prescriptions used for decades with patient satisfaction. Claims boost memory improvement and pessline relief, offering a free book to readers.
In Seattle a man known in New York City as Chandler Rogers regained his memory after fourteen years following brain surgery to remove a bone fragment. He recalled being assaulted in New York City on May 1 1897 and that he had married in Port Blakeley Washington two months earlier. He cannot remember the voyage west or his previous identity as George Kelly. A similar case surfaced in Pierce County divorce records involving George Scott who remembered a Scotland marriage and a prior wife and children after a fractured skull and illness.
Berlin physician Dr Franz Bergman visiting the United States says American women wearing too small shoes will cause the little toe to disappear from both feet in a thousand years. He notes the change is gradual and will be visible across generations. He predicts men will bear the blame for the vanity of women and plans to report findings to a medical board on return home.
The Rev. Dr. George Wright state Commissioner of Charities and Correction in his annual report to Governor Wilson urges establishing a New Jersey prison farm like those in other states. He argues first offenders should not be imprisoned with hardened criminals.
In a Tennessee church service near Lafayette, Marian Pyrtle and Prantise Williams, both boys, were shot by an unknown attacker in hiding. Pyrtle died and Williams was lightly wounded. The cause remains unknown. Meriden celebrates a 12 year old as the youngest church chimes player, Lawrence Southwick, replacing long-time ringer George Hyde at St. Paul’s Church after seventeen years.
Nine Navy midshipmen resigned their commissions and accepted second lieutenant posts in the army, seeking quicker marriage and higher rank. Names include Walter Smith, Eric L. Elington, John P. Edgerly, George F. Humbert, Arthur W. Ford, Reuben N. Perley, Joseph R. Cygon, Vincent Meyer, and John H. Birdsall. Naval rules ban marriage. Army needs officers, and Navy lacks berths.
Glenwood Minnesota engineer W A Beardsley on freight No 71 spotted a blue parcel between the rails twenty car lengths ahead. He kicked the child off the rail and down the embankment as the train could not stop in time. The child was unhurt except for a bruise from the shoe.
In Charlotte a 2 year old girl, daughter of farmer E G Friday of Iredell, was fatally burned by her 4 year old brother who lit a torch to her clothing. He admitted the act saying Just because and has a history of setting fires in the house, displaying a fire mania.
Henry Small aged 66 was crushed to death at Smith quarries in Mc Sherrystown Hanover Pennsylvania when a belt slipped from a pulley. He was pulled into the running crusher and suffered the loss of a leg and an arm before the machine was halted. He died several hours later.
The high court declines to decide if tomato cans are cylindrical or tubular tanks for tariffs under Payne Aldrich a 10 per cent ad valorem duty difference is noted as part of the case.
Militant and provocative tactics are urged by speakers at the National American Woman's Suffrage Association convention in Louisville. Mary Winsor of Philadelphia tells delegates to be loud and colorful, not tiresome, to win uninterested women. Grace Seton favors moderation, while Susan Fitzgerald of Boston pushes direct action and political campaigning.
Sanford Shomo an engineer at the Pottstown Brewery pulled his own molar with pincers during tooth pain. He severed an artery and bled heavily until two dentists and a physician arrived to stop the bleeding and save his life.
Scranton story of Conductor Michael Ginley who, lanternless, lit matches to signal a stalled fast freight on the Lackawanna Railroad outskirts. The engineer, seeing the glow, used air brakes and halted the train just before it buried its nose in a dirt pile.
Kalamazoo Mich after visiting a funeral parlor and choosing a coffin Squire H Morton sixty returned home and drank carbolic acid Morton told friends he had lived long enough
A three year old black trotting colt by Cochato out of Edmonia, owned by J. H. Hughley of Danville and trained by Crit Davis, collapsed and died at the breeders track in Lexington while being exercised.
Cheater, Pa. resident Coullo Thomasotti was arraigned before Magistrate Stockman on possessing a shotgun prior to naturalization. He received a fine of $26 and costs or jail, claiming he bought the firearm two years ago in Italy.
Mrs. F C H Dreyer returning from inland mission work in China says East now mirrors West. She notes opium use falling in Shan Li and Chinese gowns resemble American fashion. She cites Boxer uprising as catalyst and urges American devotion. Lucretia Huntzmann, 76, in Cincinnati, is questioned on spirits and writes a message declaring lunacy before being sent to Longview asylum.
Archibald Collier of Nuesell Place Summit New Jersey has become an advocate for tracheotomy in horses whose windpipes collapse. He reports driving a horse to a truck that breathes through a silver tube, as comfortably as through the animal’s natural throat.
Narvisburg police report four men in a car tampered with five fire alarm boxes on Saturday night breaking the glass in each. They set off alarms but only one fire department response occurred, with the miscreants aiming to commit robbery.
A sample case containing diamonds valued at $10,000 owned by W. C. Barry of Newark New Jersey was stolen from a Chicago hotel lobby. A man seen roaming from the hotel with the case was later believed to be the owner, and no interference occurred.
In Manchester Connecticut John Stone moved the Hartford Manchester trolley line by chaining the track to a tree after hitching his teams to cross land he claims. In Massillon Ohio Paul Migge caused an explosion while inspecting a whisky barrel, escaping with minor injuries. Tyrone Pat E Garber of West Virginia Pulp and Paper Company lost an arm and suffered fatal injuries in a shaft accident.
In Pittsburgh Carnegie Institute the foyer will house a lifesize bronze statue honoring Andrew Carnegie. The tribute comes from his former junior partners in the steel industry. In Malta a submarine volcano raged near the island disrupting shipping across the Mediterranean.
The National Swiss Bank told London that three gold bars valued at $25 000 arrived in Berne only to turn to lead upon arrival. This incident highlights a puzzling loss of metal in transit between financial centers.
A man suffered days with colic and diarrhea and was cured with one or two doses of Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. The dramatic recovery, including a life threatened case, leads to strong public endorsement.
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