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Newspaper
Greencastle Herald
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1921
Page
3
Local notices show numerous residents visiting nearby cities and returning home. Harry Heiby and others traveled for business or leisure in Dayton Ame Greencastle Indianapolis Terre Haute Paris and Martinsville with family stops and weekend visits noted among neighbors.
Paul VanArsdale visits Greencastle with parents while attending Butler College summer school. Sam Hanna and Leota Mullins return from Auburn and French Lick visits. Greencastle township Farmers Association to meet Wednesday at county agent's office to distribute signs and handle business. Preston Walters and Flossie Hanlon wed by justice of the peace. will live in Broad Park. Mayo treatment trip for Frank Thomas from Rochester. Family drives to Martinsville for treatment at Home Lawn Sanitarium. Lane family heads to Washington DC by auto after vacation. Earl Lane in real estate business there.
Sunday gathering at the W. C. VanArsdale residence drew a notable group including Mr and Mrs Benson Wan Arsdale of St. Louis Mr and Mrs Whisten and children of St Louis Mr and Mrs M Pitkin and children of Indianapolis Dr McKendrie Pitkin of Indianapolis Mr and Mrs Homer Wie gand of Indianapolis Rev Benson Baker and Mr and Mrs Benson Baker of Chicago and Paul Van Arsdale from the local area.
All subscribers in arrears on their subscription are urged to call at this office and pay or send a check or money order by mail. Your prompt attention to this will be greatly appreciated by us, THE HERALD.
Putnam County farm lands eligible for first mortgages with fifty thousand dollars available for long or short terms. Privilege to pay part or all at any interest period and no commission. Prompt action advised as funds will soon be allocated.
The page lists missing wheel ownership return requests to avoid trouble, a call from Greencastle woman for hearing from the owner of a farm for sale with lowest price offered, a Chippewa Falls man seeking farm sale details, an immediate office girl opening at Greencastle Produce Co. with contact phone 175, and a fireplace wood ad offering big wood at four dollars a cord with orders via phone 65.
Hazel J. Lear notary public at Herald Office announces availability of registration blanks for those who have not yet registered their automobiles.
A compact ad for home killed juicy steak from Miller Stat Market. Contact by phone at 564 for details on cuts and pricing.
The piece discusses a French statistician Dr Jacques Bertillon and the question whether wars increase male births. He notes postwar vitality rebound and deferral of marriages as factors, with France and Germany showing a 105 to 100 male to female birth ratio after wars. Also mentions Musset and postwar fertility, then shifts to concrete mix percentages per a Bureau of Standards bulletin.
Dr Percival Lowell funds a Mars fellowship at the University of Washington for a year with a 600 dollar stipend. The winner, chosen by Prof Samuel Boothroyd, must be a UW astronomy student or graduate conducting original research at Lowell Observatory. Boothroyd may conduct summer research too, depending on availability.
A contemplative piece likens each calendar month to life stages from infancy to old age. January hints at childhood innocence, February awakens, March strengthens, April brings sorrow, May love, June marriage, July harvest hints, August retirement dreams, September maturity, October harvest peace, November approaching frost and Thanksgiving, to December fading leaves. National Magazine.
The passage suggests preparing oranges at home before a train journey to quench thirst and avoid mess. It warns against peeling oranges on board as it is tedious and can soil clothing, recommending pre-peeled fruit wrapped in waxed paper for travel.
Excavations in Crete uncovered hats worn by Cretan women about two thousand years ago. The piece argues the Ameritan hat label is misleading and traces historical origins of the headwear.
A Washington Star excerpt laments idle luxury and calls for continuous effort to build flawless homes and durable goods. It argues that only through daily work can we banish decay and avoid complacent dreams as nature relentlessly reveals the need for earnest labor.
A housekeeper handling dessert in a family kitchen faces an old dilemma when a spoon slips into pudding with peaches. She likely retrieves the utensil and continues serving, a common response echoed through generations of household practice.
A German haus frau proposes a device from Scientific American to keep a spoon in place. The illustration shows the spoon resting snugly against the dish side, resisting sideways or downward slips and remaining in its position regardless of bottom smoothness.
The blind ox once sheltered by a stately gander on an Alabama farm has died from separation from its guardian. A recent pasture transfer prevented the gander from following, causing the ox to pine, refuse sustenance, and collapse. The Montreal Family Herald reports the death as a direct result of the separation.
The passage claims fear can alter blood flow and body functions, citing Charles I and Marie Antoinette as examples of hair whitening and distress-driven changes. It suggests fear relaxes capillaries and circulatory systems, while distress constricts vessels and affects complexion and mood.
A young woman in Jeannette Pennsylvania was blinded by the headlight glare while crossing tracks. She threw herself between the rails as the passenger train passed over, emerging uninjured aside from being unnerved and able to walk home.
Barnyard pals a pig and pullet perform a dairy bacon and egg demonstration near Yarmouth Massachusetts. Each morning the hen hops onto the pig’s back lays an egg as the pig stays still until the farmer is alerted by a crowing hen to collect the morning supply.
An Alberta reader reports a gopher emerging from a flower bed chewing tobacco. The animal held part of a tobacco plug between its paws and another portion was later recovered from its burrow.
A year old country gent'sman and his wife walk the beach at night and spot a revolving light on a lightship. The old lady stares for minutes then jokes that if the man aboard has seen the light forty times it has gone out each time.
An odd suggestion from England proposes conserving wheat by crushing or rough grinding, then softening with superheated steam and compressing into hard blocks for storage. When needed, a simple crushing process would render the blocks suitable for flour manufacture.
An aging Kansas man near death refrains from dire prognostications as his wife offers final comfort. She vows to follow him, but the husband retorts with quiet wit that she need not rush him toward death, reflecting their longstanding domestic banter.
A hen in Hants county North Carolina shed old brown plumage in October and after molt grew white head and neck with white speckled plumage across the rest of the body.
Fragment mentions a person on a chimney in London during an eclipse and a collapse noted as a tolling over a scene. The readable text is insufficient to determine full names, agency, or outcome.
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