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Newspaper
Greencastle Herald
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1923
Page
3
A busy slate of local movements and trips fills the week with residents traveling to Indianapolis Muncie and St Louis. New car deliveries Milan visitors hotel stays and family news annotate a wide spectrum of Putnam County life.
William S Jevons described an Abecedarium in Principles of Science as a machine using symbolic terms to perform analytic reasoning without error. The device aimed to convert logical processes into symbolic operations to avoid mistakes.
Sunstroke, a nervous system disorder from sun exposure, can be fatal in severe cases. Move the horse to shade, immobilize if excited, then apply cold water or ice to the head to relieve brain congestion. avoid full-body dousing. Rest and gradual return to work follow recovery.
The article urges protecting sheep from sun during hot season with shelter. It notes shade loss from field tree removal and limited pastured shade. It suggests using sheep sheds with windows removed for ventilation and flies kept out, or constructing artificial shade like post and crossbeam roofs from old lumber for cool, sanitary relief.
For sale gas store equipment includes four burner stove and oven. Bargain price offered. Call Herald Office for details. See Lucas and Masten for insurance Farm and town property coal real estate bonds and related services at South Jackson Street.
Many women can earn 35 dollars weekly by selling porch and street dresses priced 3 to 5 dollars with no investment. Pickwick Mfg. Co. in Fort Wayne Indiana invites today. Also an ad seeks a manager for a Greencastle branch for Admiral Rubber Co. No experience needed.
A. O. White of the White Cleaning Co. announces a two week vacation is over and his cleaning and pressing plant is now open for business.
Greencastle town seeks volunteers to host Depauw University students. Residents should contact W. Henry McLean, assistant to the president, with full name address phone, number of rooms, single or double, type of accommodations, monthly price for one and for two, and any other details. The aim is simple comfortable housing at reasonable rates to aid students working through college.
A New York Sun and Globe tale of a young couple who moved from a cramped one room flat to a four room apartment only to be swamped by visiting friends. They tried hosting but crowding persisted until they retraced to their old cramped home and solved the issue by entertaining themselves and avoiding unsolicited guests.
The piece envisions a growing memorial park at Mark Twain's birthplace in Florida Missouri. It calls for elm trees and statues of Huck Finn Tom Sawyer Aunt Polly and other homefolk characters as gifts and endowments welcome the fame of Samuel Clemons. The park is said to become one of America's great literary shrines.
A Wisconsin experiment at the state station fed seven pure bred draft foals for 182 days with 11.4 pounds of concentrates and 6.4 pounds of alfalfa daily. The grain mix was 90 pounds oats and 10 pounds bran. Foals gained 1.9 pounds per day and weighed about 1141 pounds at 377 days on average, supporting that a yearling draft foal can reach 1000 pounds with liberal feeding.
Mrs. Margaret Goodman, America's sole woman marine salvager and former journalist, rose to prominence five years ago by salvaging copper and iron from a sunken vessel in Lake Michigan. She succeeded where men failed, reviving hope after several lives had been lost.
Dairen in Manchuria is described as the port of a country becoming the world's greatest producer of soy beans. The crop is exported widely for use in soy bean sauce and oil and is familiar to patrons of Chinatown restaurants.
Miss PD G Mortimer of Exeter becomes the first Irish woman admitted to membership in the National Association of Stock Brokers marking a notable breakthrough for women in finance.
The scheme approved for five pounds to fit out a municipal auditorium in St Louis includes smoking rooms for women as well as for men.
State and Purdue University representatives conduct a county survey to remove common barberry that causes wheat rust. The Herald prints an illustrative picture to distinguish it from Japanese barberry and asks residents to report known plants to the county agent for relay to survey teams.
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