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Newspaper
Greencastle Herald
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 09, 1919
Page
4
An irregular promotion urges delaying Triumph Pills and avoiding other products. It claims safety and dependability and promises free information. Readers are directed to write for details to the National Medical Institute in Milwaukee Wisconsin.
A drunkenly tested memo at a Denver daily led to a staff revolt after a mimeographed threat of fines suspensions and firings. The city editor, allegedly intoxicated, was replaced amid the aftermath as the paper returned to normal after pay-night revelry.
In Mexico City the Teatro el Toro transitions from bull fighting to grand opera after President Carranza bans fighting. A famed bull, El Bonito, killed three horses and wounded several men before a spectator-turned-picador offered sugar but the bull calmed and allowed the man to return unharmed.
A proposed submerged tunnel from Lancashire to Antrim would connect Great Britain and Ireland, shortening Atlantic voyages by about two days. Estimates range from 35 to 80 million dollars and it could boost the Irish cattle trade and perishable goods shipping.
A farmer confronts a traveling sewing-machine agent who boasts of heavy duty work. The farmer’s wife demonstrates the machine by stitching a shingle, while a neighbor’s wife allegedly sews entire house details, leaving the farmer to joke about sewing up the agent and proceed to supper.
A buried Indian village site, believed occupied 500 years ago, was found by M. A. Cramer Auburn city forester while digging after a woodchuck in the town of Cato Cayuga county New York. The site yielded skeletons and bone implements of likely Iroquois origin.
The passage lists old beliefs such as crystals being congealed lava and peacock flesh not decaying, noting many were easily disproved. It then contrasts these with newer myths like high wages causing happiness and the idea that regular strike action improves living.
A reflective assertion contrasts idealism with achievable action. It notes even successful people feel failure, warning pessimistic talk by musicians and teachers harms the progress of music and discourages students and younger colleagues.
The passage describes crossing the Sutley river in Todla by swimming or riding a native ferry. The ferry uses a bullock skin inflated through a leg hole, with the ferryman lying across the skin and the rider perched on his back. The journey depends on steadiness to avoid disaster.
A child borrows flour sugar and baking powder for a cake and, thinking it easier, combines them in one bag. She delivers the bag to her mother who notes the mix up but appreciates the effort.
A cinema scene unfolds as William observes shadow figures in a tale where a cat disrupts a cage containing a canary. The canary escapes and the hero and heroine chase it, collide in a shrub framed embrace, and the bird becomes forgotten as they kiss. William sighs and whispers a humorous line about the bird’s safety.
A tale recalls Benjamin Franklin as a poor American youth seeking work in a London print shop. When challenged to prove his skill, he quickly set biblical type, reproducing John 1 46, delivering a sharp reproach. Impressed, the foreman hires him and promotes him.
Regular treatment with liquid wax restores fitness to scratched furniture. Apply small amounts of ordinary squid wax on a flannel cloth and rub lightly over mahogany tables chair backs piano desk phonograph case and similar pieces about every two weeks.
The famous fortress on the rocky islet near Marseilles, immortalized by The Count of Monte Cristo, closes as a prison after 1872 use. The last inmate is believed to be an Austrian U-boat captain held for three months, with the island now a tourist show place.
An narrator recounts an odyssey from the Euphrates toward Constantinople via the Baghdad railroad and routes once trod by St. Paul, Godfrey of Bouillon, and Crusaders. The journey traverses Aleppo, Damascus, Jerusalem, Haifa, Beirut, and Tarsus with freight cars and a British destroyer, noting the impracticality of direct travel in the region.
The Huguenots, akin to France s Puritans, faced severe persecution from Francis I onward, including the St Bartholomew s Day Massacre of 1572 in which up to 30 000 died. Despite setbacks they gained rights under Henry IV, but their power waned after La Rochelle s surrender and the 1685 revocation, sending hundreds of thousands into exile across Europe and the Americas.
The ministry of the interior issues a circular via the Peking Daily News demanding restrictions on cigars and cigarettes. It bars anyone under eighteen from smoking and forbids military personnel from use, with a ban in all government schools and colleges.
An Argentina chamber member proposes paying deputies per day instead of a monthly lump sum to curb absenteeism. The bill states that missing a roll call equals absence and entitles no pay for days without regular session attendance.
The national forest reservation commission approved purchasing 45 581 acres in the White Mountains Southern Appalachians and Arkansas. Major tracts lie in New Hampshire Camell and Grafton counties 31 022 acres and Oxford County Maine 1 220 acres at 87 15 per acre. The land includes Mount Checortia and Mount Pancus scenic points with trails maintained for tourists.
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