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Newspaper
Greencastle Herald
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 06, 1921
Page
4
A historical recipe section presents a salad with raisins lemon juice apples lettuce and cream mayonnaise followed by layered steak and potato bake with gravy and a ham cauliflower bake and a molded orange raisin dessert. Instructions specify layering browning boiling mashing and baking steps.
In a small rural church a lone sinner enters with fear and stigma. A singing swallow soars into the open sanctuary and its notes spark a personal transformation. The hymn mirrors redemption as the man finds new faith beside the wandering outcast.
A Sicilian origin tale credits a Palermo chef with inventing macaroni after a noble demanded simpler fare. The cook mixed flour and water into tubes, topped with grated parmesan, and the delighted patron exclaimed what became the dish’s name, macaroni.
An article by Jessie Roberts argues women doctors will move from fringe to mainstream as prejudice fades. Preventive medicine offers the greatest future for women, with growing opportunities beyond teaching. A child’s remark about Julius Caesar ends the piece with a brief aside.
Poultry experts from the United States Department of Agriculture advise housewives to buy undrawn chickens with heads and feet intact. Undrawn birds resist bacterial spoilage better than fully dressed ones, while drawn entrails and improper handling can hide decay. They provide step by step home drawing instructions and emphasize dry skin, air chilling, and immediate chilling after dressing.
Biological Survey notes sixty bird species including night hawks orioles and swallows as vital boll weevil predators. Swallows catch weevils in flight while martins use purpose built nesting boxes. water presence aids colonization. Test stolen eggs carefully to avoid fraud.
A column notes plans for a modern language Bible due by May under Princeton Theological Seminary. The piece questions replacing obsolete terms with everyday speech and worries sacred texts become overly common through such revisions. The writer mocks the approach and asks why scholars would popularize sacred phrases.
A Philadelphia Record note quotes local hospital physicians advising raising the left arm to relieve choking. They warn against alarming the child and suggest instructing the child to raise the arm, which can quickly free the obstructed airway during meals or play.
The Chattanooga Times argues that women are excluded from only two of 233 Census Bureau occupations. It notes no women in several roles like soldiers, sailors, firefighters, streetcar workers, or boilermaker helpers. The piece suggests female soldiers could become a reality with suffrage.
Report from Harrisburg Bulletin describes John Cartwright's flock with grass growing on backs and sides. Seed carried by feed wagons sprouted as sheep grazed in Oregon's frequent showers, producing a curious, grassy woolly look.
Mr Graytop laments aging after a string of reminders from others that he appears older. He recalls drivers and conductors treating him cautiously and strangers smiling as he meets his days, wondering if he is truly growing old.
The Great Western Railway in England tests eight electric signaling forms to cut fog and storm accidents. A seventh iron rail between tracks, connected to semaphore controls, triggers a cab bell for safe passages and a whistle for danger when the train crosses it.
The piece argues no single Shakespeare work is the greatest with six top contenders including The Tempest Julius Caesar Hamlet Lear Macbeth and Othello. It notes taste and judgment vary with Hamlet often favored while Tempest often praised by critics as his genius.
The caves of southern France contain world notable wall pictures by prehistoric people living with mammoths, rhinoceros, and reindeer. Some images are engraved, others painted with ocher in mortars, depicting extinct animals like cave lions and bears. Font de Gaume preserves a rhinoceros with two unequal horns. Four phases of troploitide art development are noted by explorers in recent years.
A 19th century medical note defines coffee inebriates as adults consuming a pound of coffee weekly. Symptoms include headache on abstinence, sallow skin, cold hands, irregular heartbeat, and melancholia. The article claims Americans drink the most coffee, importing over a billion pounds yearly, and warns untreated coffee inebriety can lead to alcoholism or morphinism.
A New York Sun editorial argues genealogical pedigrees gain traction amid ridicule, praising practical American lineage of hardworking yeomen over heraldic display. It condemns vanity and heraldry while valuing modest private endeavor and public duty that forge lasting family chains.
The article questions census figures linking insanity to modern work. It argues monotony rather than hustle drives mental strain, noting 41.6 percent of the admitted insane were servants or laborers, 2.25 percent farmers or outdoor work, and 16 percent in manufacturing.
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