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Newspaper
Greencastle Herald
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 11, 1923
Page
4
American explorer Har old Hi Nulce warns that caribou and musk ox face extinction due to killing for sport. He recalls the bison collapse, notes whalers and traders sped wildlife loss, and calls for early game conservation and enforcement to shield remaining northern herds.
Ontario spent about $80 per vote at Moose Factory where ballots were flown in and out by airplane. Four thousand dollars total for forty seven ballots with one prior voter. Air trips took five hours, river travel five weeks for enumerators.
The Post Office reports prosperity in Arkansas where an oil boom has emerged. Two young men in a small town seek wives from French women in France asking how to contact them. They request good homes and kind treatment.
A fire broke out at a juvenile home in Shreveport as four children aged five to nine tried to flee. A girl set the blaze and ran toward a rear fence, with one boy reportedly staying behind.
Culpeper Virginia report describes Madison County hunter Stuart May observing a squirrel motionless on a rail fence as a large black snake coiled around it appeared to have charmed the creature. May shot the snake and measured it at nearly eight feet.
The sea horse is unusual with a body of bone ring mail a horse shaped head upright and a prehensile tail for grasping seaweed. The male carries eggs in a pouch under the tail until the young hatch.
A manufacturer of an electric sifter popular for sand screening on foundry floors develops a new device that sifts material suspended in squids. The machine is wholly enclosed with a half closed top to prevent splashing by Aquor.
An Oakland California lot has been transformed by a 40 foot high reinforced concrete cascade, 4.5 feet wide, illuminated by waterproof electric lights. A motor driven pump provides 60 gallons per minute, with 50 watt bulbs in varied colors housed in concrete shells on both sides.
Nature Magazine notes a long hawk list with the sparrow hawk as the tiniest. It is useful to humans feeding on mice insect pests crickets grasshoppers spiders and other small prey, aiding pest control.
A man proposes to the woman he loves on a crowded elevated station platform during a rush hour. Her refusal is described as curt, firm and cutting on a cold, miserable evening.
A South Sea island maiden beautifies herself with a brass ring in her nose. An American woman of fashion follows with a pearl in her ear. The ring is more serviceable you can hold her by it.
The text notes Egyptian royalty like Tutankhamun wearing gold gem studded sandals and claims such footgear was common among ancient nobles across Egypt Babylon Persia Lydia Etruria, reflecting wealth and status through adornments produced by artisans.
A correspondent quotes Franklin K. Lane describing himself as an aged man yet the youngest thing inside him. He emphasizes curiosity truthfulness imagination desire to help and belief in goodness and justice, cited from the Boston Transcript.
The text compares fear and anger as different emotional drivers where prey animals like frogs and rabbits primarily fear, while predators such as tigers and weasels display anger. It notes that some humans share these different dispositions, with fear urging flight and anger driving fight.
The Kansas City Star notes a firm tone as the day opens on the New York stock exchange. The write up frames the market activity with concise observations, highlighting early momentum and trading interest across key issues.
In Japan public story-tellers in large cities and towns sustain a decent livelihood. They work with a small table a fan and a paper wrapper to illustrate and emphasize the points of their tales.
Chicago report on Lewis Institute structural materials lab housing a sand library with over 2 800 bottles. Samples span the U S Canada Cuba Mexico and other nations. Each bottle records source grading silt organic impurities tests and often mortar or concrete results to aid concrete users.
The passage lists the maiden names of four U S presidents mothers: Mary Ball for George Washington, Nancy Hanks for Abraham Lincoln, Abigail Eastman for Daniel Webster, and Martha Bulloch for Theodore Roosevelt.
Creditors heirs and legatees of Sarah Massey deceased must appear in Putnam Circuit Court Green Castle Indiana on September 24 1923 to show cause why final settlement accounts should not be approved. Heirs must prove heirship and receive distributive shares. Clerk Walter S Campbell signs the notice dated July 28 1923.
Cape May New Jersey reports a record hour on Delaware Bay as Jake Barnett and Snapper Schellenger of Fishing Creek haul nine channel bass totaling 800 pounds with none under 70 pounds. Old timers call it an hour record and a second tale describes a bass containing a pearl string from a passing steamer.
The submarine X-1, described as the largest and most powerful underwater craft, was launched at Chatham. It displaces 2,780 tons on the surface and 3,600 submerged and will mount a 12 inch gun.
Indiana reports the weed fanweed, among the West's most damaging for grain crops, discovered at a Switzerland County farm in Lafayette area. This confirms spread beyond western regions and raises crop loss concerns for local growers.
The clerk of the Circuit Court of Putnam county Indiana appoints Walter Booher as administrator of Alvin B. Hanks late of Putnam county deceased. The estate is supposed to be solvent. Dated August 7 1923 Corwin and Gillen Attorneys.
The Putnam County Council will convene in the Greencastle court house commissioners room on Wednesday August 15 1923 at 10 00 a m to begin preliminary work on 1924 appropriations and tax levies and to handle miscellaneous business. Auditor Ralph E Knoll announces the session. Aug 7 14.
Notice to taxpayers that on August 6 1923 the Putnam County Board of Commissioners adopted a bond ordinance to issue 14800 road bonds for J F Elliott road improvements. Bonds bear 4.5 percent interest, dated September 15 1923, payable semiannually for ten years. Final order to be concluded at 10:00 a M September 15 1923.
The Greencastle Consolidated Schools announce a sale on August 27 1923 at 9:00 a.m. of a frame dwelling on Lot 7 Block 6 in the Central Survey Greencastle Putnam County Indiana. The purchaser must remove the building within 30 days and the tenant may occupy for one year from the sale date.
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