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Newspaper
Greencastle Herald
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 06, 1915
Page
3
A young writer in a big city fails to find a producer for his feeble plays. He pivots to a controversial problem play with a neck of punch, featuring a married couple and provocative scenes. Producers embrace it, and royalties flood in, teaching that punch is what the “kicks” want put into it.
Advertising moves goods and signals the advertiser is likely to offer fresh stock. Advertisers often stay progressive in buying stock, meaning they can purchase at savings for customers and pass benefits along.
A short health advert notes that constipation harms health and recommends Chamberlain's Tablets for relief. It claims the tablets are easy to take and pleasant in effect and are obtainable everywhere.
The trustee of Jefferson Township Putnam County proposes for the yearly expenditures and tax levies by the Advisory Board at its annual meeting to be held Sept 1 1915 at 2 PM at the school house No 5. It lists township expenditures 796.96 and township tax 0.12 per dollar, local tuition expenditures 0.02 and tax 0.45, special school tax expenditures 9920.68 and tax 0.50, road tax 264.15 and tax 0.10, additional road tax 492.07 and tax 0.05, poor expenditures 100 and tax 0.03. Total expenditures 8002.46 and total tax 1.22 per hundred. Taxables shown include land and improvements 168980 personal property 5702 railroad and utilities valuations, mortgage exemption credit 22900, net taxable property 512856, total 687037, and number of polls. Signed Elmer Blue, Trustee. Dated Aug 5 1915, Daily Aug 6.
A whimsical tale ties Paige Texas postmistress Ida Sternenberg to Page Nebraska postmaster P E Chase across several towns. After a train mix up and a wedding, Chase departs for Paige Texas while Sternenberg remains in Page Nebraska.
Geo Haynes, a Utah sheepman, killed a mountain lion near Hunter in Wasatch ranges after a tense duel. The nine foot long, 300 pound beast, thought to lead others, was brought to Salt Lake City for display alongside Haynes’s small automatic pistol.
Pottsville story of four year old twins Pat Phaon and Uriah Schaeffer from Pine Grove who left Miners' hospital an inch taller after leg straightening with plaster casts. Bowlegs corrected, gait transformed, relatives noted the dramatic change in their height and walk.
The Clinton township trustee in Putnam County proposes estimated expenditures and taxes for the year at the School District No. 5 meeting on September 7, 1915. Totals include township expenditures 1500 and 2 cent tax, local tuition 8500 and 25 cent tax, road tax with 10 cent tax, and additional road tax 700. total 8700 and 57 cents per hundred dollars. Followed by bond sale notice for Greencastle Indiana city bonds.
Detectives in Shreveport Louisiana seize Katie Brown a domestic and widow as she tries to swallow an unset diamond valued at 250. Det Reichheimer wrestles the gem from her throat and forces its recovery. Brown and her mother resisted briefly. Police traced the jewel to Col Neville who reported a missing pin.
New York report describes Columbia senior J Donald Duncan who swam for his bachelor of arts degree after failing initial exams. He plunged into the gym pool amid cheers, swam for eleven minutes, and returned to the line with the professor’s signature on his papers as the ceremony continued.
Joel Hunter of Buffalo Valley claims the longest living beard at eight feet ten inches from source to tip. Known as Old Man Hunter, he is a hermit who lives in a small hut miles from neighbors and is seldom seen. He says he tucks the beard under the covers at night with its own end.
Topeka reports a sparrow killed by a golf ball while player O. G. Pettit was teeing off. The bird died on impact and golfers recall a similar incident only once before, involving a professional golfer on a large New England course.
Will Harkins, drenched and hungry, walked into a Topeka restaurant on East Fourth Street. He slept on a feather bed at Harry Crumbine’s home on Monroe Street, thanked Crumbine, then vanished with the feather tick. Harkins later sold the feathers to a mattress maker and was fined $20 for petit larceny.
Bangor Maine reports on Uncle Greenleaf Davis the hermit of Shin Pond a noted bear hunter naturalist and Thoreau companion. Born to a grand Maine timber family he kept to poetry nature study and bachelor life for decades while amassing 23000 acres of timber now largely gone. He recalls hunting bears with his father and recounts old time Maine life noting bear grease diet pelts and the changing value of pelts over sixty to seventy years.
Miss Edna Engle aged 17, daughter of Caspar Engle, died in Kenosha Wisconsin after a mouse startled her as she entered a room. The small intruder ran from under furniture startling her, she became unconscious and did not regain consciousness.
In Grossett Alabama a tiny 14 by 16 foot church was erected in two hours after lumber was rushed to the street corner. The move blocked a planned nearby saloon by proving a church stood within reach of the town, convincing saloon men they could not obtain a license within three miles. The structure served the congregation for a time.
Maud S Veal and Charles Bull wed in Binghamton after fleeing Veal family opposition to their names. Bull told the clergyman and reporters they traveled from Scranton to marry, dodging family beef and promising to endure the roast while asserting they cannot be cowed.
The potato vine bears potatoes both above and below ground. Johnson Hogan of Bethany discovered the freak vine in his patch and displayed it locally. Each joint of the vine shows a well formed potato with many potatoes attached to the roots.
A Perry Michigan cyclone lifted a chicken coop and an old hen over a fence into a neighboring field with no injuries. In Hannibal Missouri, Miss Mary Porter and James E. Burton wed near Holliday weighing 147 pounds combined. she 70 pounds, 47 inches tall, he one inch taller and seven pounds heavier at 40 compared with her 26. Both had offers to tour with shows and will live on Burton's farm.
Okiaton resident D. H. L. Richie, a rancher, owns a rooster that attacked him as he opened his henhouse. The bird leaped onto his knee and spurred him twice, leaving him in critical condition days later due to blood poisoning and ongoing effects from the wound.
Plans for a massive sanitary retail produce market at Eighth and Market streets, San Francisco, on a 1.75 million dollar tract. The Central Park Market will feature hundreds of glassed stalls rented to farmers and vendors, with ice water sprayed vegetables and wrapped meat, aiming to cut retail costs and mirror Civic Center district development. Andrew McCreery heirs hold the full-property title, preventing parcel sales. stalls and stores will generate rental income while maintaining control.
In Stroudsburg Pennsylvania Judge C B Staples sentences 15 year old William Devore to Huntington Reformatory and 12 year old Frank Tales to Glen Mills Reform School for attempting to wreck a Pennsylvania train. The court censures certain moving picture concerns and directs the district attorney to act as censor.
A New Jersey widow reports burning eight dollars Sunday morning after hiding cash in the oven as a safe depository publicized to the treasury. An examiner studies the ashes to determine denomi nations, noting a pig once chewed money from a similar stash and the digested bills were sent to the U S treasury.
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