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Newspaper
Greencastle Herald
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 11, 1919
Page
2
The Daily Herald lists subscription options: weekly ten cents, four months relate to SAAD, annual rates, and single copies ten cents. Cards of Thanks are fifty cents each, obituaries one dollar per item with an extra fee per line for poetry.
Moonlit trout fishing debated among Adirondack guides with reports of brown trout taken by night. Some warn it is a reliable method while others call it a tale. Malone secured seven brown trout from Salmon River under moonlight indicating success in suitable waters.
Mr and Mrs William Peck departed this morning for Niagara Falls to enjoy a several days vacation.
The Derby on Epsom downs is a left handed two straight segments and a turn through Tottenham corner. A Derby winner must start quickly, be well placed at Tottenham corner, handle downhill sharp turns, and finish strongly on the long straight. The course is noted as unfair and rogues paradise.
Ancient site in Mexico rises as a dramatic rock mesa with a 400 foot overhang and a 70 acre flat summit. The town atop the cliff is famed for prehistoric Pueblo architecture and romantic history, linked by a rugged, narrow transit trail.
The article explains cork as a spongy outer tissue of evergreen oaks not the true bark. It notes cork harvesting every six to eight years with trees yielding for up to a century. It mentions historical use for bottle stoppers and a medieval monk linked to the cork stopper invention.
The Bells of St Pauls cathedral in London are rung on Sundays and holy days by twelve Society of College Youths members. A single ringer operates six bells for weekday services using pulleys before adding one bell for final chimes.
Venezuela enacts a strict protection rule for the white heron, a key revenue source, allowing feather collection only during July to November and banning killing or trapping. Customs inspectors must ensure feathers exported come from non harmed birds, with habitats in Apure and Bolivar states along waterways and lakes.
The practice of pledging with wine is traced to old social customs of bonding over a drink. Jewish and Russian betrothal rituals are cited, where after drinking the couple breaks or tramples the vessel as a symbolic act.
Henry remarks that the new tie his father bought resembles upholstery. The father boasted about his refined taste in accessories but faces a playful lesson from his son in this lighthearted family anecdote.
A large mucilage factory in New Jersey burned, leaving about 400 workers unemployed and impacting the surrounding community. Emergency crews controlled the blaze as residents assessed the loss and sought new employment opportunities.
A sketch of Solly Greeneup, the rainwalker who claimed to make rain for farmers who posted stakes. He used a rudimentary device a kite and oil to entice storms, charged for inches of rain, and once earned a $1,000 for an inch of rain. He lost his left foot in a streetcar crash and retired from weather work, with some calling his feat make believe.
The largest private exchange to date is in a New York hotel opened to the public. It covers 165 square feet of floor space with an operating room 110 by 110 feet, a terminal room 80 by 29 feet, a restroom 24 by 15 feet, and a locker area 20 by 4. The staff includes a chief operator, an assistant chief, eight supervisors, and 110 attendants. The switchboard has 23 positions, 13 with paging telantographs. It can support 340 extensions and 150 trunks serving 2,200 hotel rooms and 40 public booths via four connected switchboards. The system uses many components and about 706,000 feet of wire.
The Tarrant Aircraft Construction company completes a massive triplane the middle wing spans 181 feet with two additional planes 98 feet long. Overall length 76 feet, height 87 feet, depth 15 feet 2 inches, and a 172 foot pilot’s seat projection. Six Napier-Toljon engines produce 500 horsepower each powering four tractor and two four bladed pusher propellers.
The wartime Japanese zinc industry profits vanished after the armistice. Production costs reached 200 dollars per ton while market prices hovered around 187 dollars per ton. Analysts anticipate requests for subsidies and import protection due to inferior ore quality limiting competitive prospects.
The Getira in Abyssinia view a sky divinity and earth spirits as secondary genii. Slavery exists in fact though not officially recognized, with slaves chained if escaping, beaten for disobedience, and unpaid. Some escape to forests, while distinctions between slave and subject fade in distant provinces.
The fragment presents Cicero arguing that true law is universal and eternal, aligned with nature and reason, not varying by city or era. God is the author and enforcer of this universal law, and disobedience is seen as fleeing from reason and violating human nature.
The text describes a vast canal system from the eastward regions to the present, linking mountains and plains. It notes the Yangtze basin, a northern plain, and a major irrigation and transport network called the Grindeaugh, supplying water and enabling agriculture for ages.
The passage recalls a tale from Iren Nichols via Strott about Queen Elizabeth entertaining guests at a court in Somersetshire. After dinner, ten servants arranged a square green tennis court on a windowed wall, marking a center cross line and playing five to five with handball, drawing great admiration.
A lake near Vindosta Georgia periodically disappears for two to three weeks every three to four years. It spans three tiles by three quarters of a night with an average depth of 12 feet and drains through natural channels beneath. After vanishing a tamwoth basin remains, then water returns over several weeks restoring the lake to its former expanse.
The text presents Walter Savage Lander at ease in his library, praising a peaceful scholarly society. He notes that diverse opinions foster no offense, and that conversations among equals proceed without coercion as participants speak or remain silent.
Jimmy, labeled the bad boy, was whipped by younger boys in self defense. His mother was shocked by the affair but he defended himself, with others saying he needed a licking to teach him a lesson.
The article outlines iron and steel as America's largest manufacturing industry. It states pig iron recovery from ore equals about 25 percent of raw materials, 14 percent lost to coal coking, 40 percent released as gas fumes and dust, and 21 percent forming slag during smelting.
The article describes Tai Shan as China's most sacred mountain with a history of worship dating to 2600 TC. Emperors and scholars climbed a steep path of some 6000 steps to temples and shrines honoring the Lady of the Mountain amid Buddhist Taoist and Confucian rites. Pilgrims travel by swinging chair and foot while bells, incense, and rites mark the ascent, including the perilous Meet of Life rock where sacrifices once occurred to ease the gods.
The state with federal aid constructs a granite highway in the Rockies inspired by the Appian way. It will run along a sheer 8,000 foot drop with protective posts and cables for traffic safety. At $25,000 per mile the project aims to be enduring and famed as a modern marvel.
A widow, Amanda Jackson, colored, draws three SA7.5000 pensions totaling S1T27.50 a month for twenty years for losses of three husbands in the war. The report notes related claims involving a husband who died of spinal meningitis after service and a $10,000 policy, with subsequent marriage to Smith and his death.
Slaith wed Private Jackson, a returned soldier, who also named her in a $10,000 policy. Influenza made her a widow a third time in less than two years. The war risk bureau declines to reveal her address, fearing suspective marriage offers.
The London Daily Mail reports a surge of gnats due to drought with Ochloretatus dorsalis breeding in estuaries and inland sites. The gnats are common on the ground around London including the Sarrey downs, and a gnat named Vutlearis is noted as troublesome at dusk causing fever and sores in bites.
Spanish demographers warn about rising death rates and falling birth rates. Dr Connex Genoa presents data from 1972 to 1980 showing death tolls increasing after a prior pandemic and births dropping from a high level to new lows. Official figures remain incomplete as researchers assess long term trends.
The revival of inexpensive dime novels returns with Nick Carter and other paperback staples such as Libbey Bertha M Clay and Augusta Evans leading the trend. Publishers report a fourfold rise in demand for ten cent books despite higher production costs, with detective and fortune telling titles remaining popular.
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