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Newspaper
Greencastle Herald
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 09, 1919
Page
2
The notice lists rates for Daily Herald by mail and by carrier, including one year, four months, and shorter periods with weekly rates. It also mentions single copies and 50 cent charges for cards of thanks.
The notice outlines obituary charges set at one dollar per obituary with an additional five dollar line fee. It notes that lines may be allocated for poetry under the newspaper’s obituary classification and pricing.
The Board of Commissioners of Putnam County Indiana will receive sealed bids until 2 p m on September 1 1919 at the auditor's Greencastle office for two road graders weighing 1000 to 2500 pounds and four three way road drags for the county.
The notice states bids may be rejected at the board's discretion. Attest: Joe M. Allen, Auditor. Signed by H. Witt Sutherlin, E. Reason Larkin, Charles W. Daggy. 11-d Aug posters.
W H Ireland of Louisville recounts a severe 1888 cholera morbus attack. He paid a hotel porter fifty cents to buy Chamberlain's Coke and Diarrhoea Remedy, took a double dose, fell asleep, and awoke well enough to catch a train at five in the morning and continue his journey.
The Victor Presbyterian Church hosts morning worship at 10 40 with the Rev Henry of Indianapolis delivering the sermon. Mr Courtney Livingstone will sing. Sunday school starts at 9 30. An union evening service at 7 30 at Locust Street M E Church features the sermon by the Rev Levi Marshall of the Christian church.
A daughter was born this morning to Mr and Mrs Arthur Meyers. The birth adds a new member to the Meyers family household.
Don W Nichols D D pastor leads Sunday school at 9 30 with Mrs H B Longden superintendent. Preaching at 10 40 Living to Bless Others. Epworth League 6 30 echoes from Bethany Park Ida Long speaks Morning Watch and Life Service. Miss Lenora Webb Bible Study Dor othy Richards entertainment contest. Mary Manuel What I Got Out of the Institute Mrs Nichols Mothering the Girls and the Boys. Watching His Flock sermon. High school youths encouraged to attend. Evening union service with Dr Levi Marshall from the Christian church delivering the message. Expected large turnout for a full union service.
Sunday school at the regular hour. The Rev. Carswell will preach at the morning service.
An irritable disposition often stems from indigestion. A man with good digestion is usually good natured. For indigestion or constipation, Chamberlain's Tablets strengthen the stomach and promote natural bowel movement.
George Rissler of Washington township travels to Greencastle with a load of watermelons. He operates a twenty five acre watermelon patch. Mr and Mrs S C Baker and children Brevoort and Mary of Columbus Indiana are guests of Mr and Mrs Will Wetz.
Advert says Chamberlains Tablets provide a mild pleasant physic. Customers praise their gentle effect and easy taking style. Price listed as a quarter.
A historic Hungerford Hocktide festival features a trumpet opener from the courthouse balcony and a town bell toll that brings prisoners to court. Two villagers carry pole bouquets as they visit shops collecting one penny fines for a kiss from wives and daughters of a local magnate. An orange is tossed to cheering children as the crowd disperses.
A fragment presents a mix of folk cures for toothache. In Dyes onshire, Fugland a skull fragment placed in a churchyard pocket is advised. In America trimming fingermails on Friday morning is said to prevent toothache. Pilgrims near Tubber Quan must offer hate charms on the last three Sundays in June.
A dramatic storm is described with a sky full of blue fire skeletons dancing in a deadly display. Skeleton forms and green serpents fill the heavens as light and motion surge from all directions, creating a fearsome, otherworldly scene.
A Forbes Magazine reflection urges young men to discipline leisure and focus on meaningful aims. It argues pleasure is fine but tempering reproaches helps shape a life of value. The piece emphasizes that unused years determine later outcomes and success hinges on purposeful daily choices.
An old travel tale recounts a lantern flower that spread in gardens and choked trees. Rabbits were released to curb the thistle but multiplied, prompting the use of the English fox, which failed to reduce the rabbits and earned a ten shilling price on its head.
The 1867 Irish Derby winner Hermit, owned by Lord Chaplin, rose from a fraught winter season but died after blood vessel rupture the following spring. Henry Chaplin, then betrothed to Lady Florence Paget, faced a broken engagement as Lady Florence wed Lord Hastings who later claimed Hermit ruined him.
The text notes Punta Arenas as the southernmost city in the world near the Magellan Strait in Chile, farther south than Cape Town, with seasons inverted and January warmth uncommon, while August winds hint at perpetual cold.
The English Derby began in 1780 under the twelfth Earl of Derby, after the Oaks at Banstead Downs. Lord Derby won with Sir Peter Teazle in 1787, named for his wife Miss Farren, who inspired Lady Teazle in The School for Scandal. The Derby grew into a national festival by the time of his grandson, a prime minister in early Queen Victoria's era.
A daughter recalls a proposal that left her father astonished and her mother recounts a tense scene. The man demanded her hand and appeared threatening like a highwayman, yet the daughter notes the proposer trembled and looked weak while she said yes to prevent him from fainting.
The report cites experiments in several countries with ground control of aircraft. A French machine flew 180 kilometers along a prescribed course with detours and landed at an airfield. The United States developed a similar system. a craft can travel about 100 miles without a pilot and land near a designated post.
The text notes the departure from Spain of the Santa Maria Nina and Pinto marking the epoch making voyage of Columbus, describing Trafalgar as the end of a heroic era in naval war and England’s mastery of the seas.
A veteran with a lost leg from Bellwood finds renewed purpose through the Federal Board for Vocational Education. After sharing a ring he engraved himself, the adviser matches him with engraving training, leading to a job at a jewelry store.
The Christian Herald describes Ginling College in Nanking as the most picturesque school, recently opened and operated by five boards with eight faculty members and eighteen girls. Now in its second year the institute plans a longer program, adding a year of work over autumn. The college is housed in Li Hung Chang's former official residence, symbolizing progress for Chinese women into higher education.
A Berlin assistant theater manager asks if the burlesque will observe the week of mourning. The manager orders no shutdown, planning to dress chorus girls in black silk stockings, sparking controversy during Germany's peace-term debates.
Louis Anderson has invented a storm cover for boats that shields both boat and rower entirely. The design includes a headpiece and rubberized, full-junction cover shaped to shed waves and rain, with one oar used as a backbone to support the long tail behind the rower.
A stall boy asks for an empty medicine bottle at a local drug store. The assistant refuses without contents. The boy replies that it is merely red tape and asks them to shove in a cork.
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