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Newspaper
Greencastle Herald
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 14, 1914
Page
2
The era of wartime pricing prompts discussion on rising food costs with emphasis on sugar as a key commodity, highlighting dependence on Europe for supply. Officials note price increases may be partly unnecessary amid calls for policy review.
A divided price list shows sugar five pound units at 25 cents and beans per pound at 25 cents. Coffee tea pork chops tenderloins flour and other staples appear with scattered cents figures.
President Wilson requests an investigation into rising prices across major and small food producers as war disrupts supply. Pork and navy beans lead gains, with prices jumping from five to eleven cents per pound for beans and sugar climbing about three cents per pound. Coffee teas and flour also show notable increases amid wartime demand and market pressures.
The article reports inflation in meat and wheat tied to wartime conditions, with pork and lard dynamics prompting broader price concerns. President Wilson asks the Attorney General to consider legal options, McReynolds replies detailing investigations and potential law avenues for curbing food price hikes.
A Charlottesville Observer tale recounts a road encounter where a frog on a busy road hops into a bush with a blacksnake in pursuit. The frog confronts the snake with a stick held crosswise in its mouth, preventing swallowing and forcing the snake to retreat.
Editor Clark Howell recalls a former Constitution office janitor who, after alcohol trouble, becomes a garage assistant. He says he knows cars well from working around them but wonders how autos move without hitching a horse, reflecting rural era humor and tech curiosity.
The passage argues that early kinship and property followed the mother, giving women social power. As marriage forms evolved, control moved from matriarchs to men, with husbands driven out if deemed unworthy. The shift marks a late historic change from female to male headship in kinship and inheritance.
A teacher asks how days are divided and a boarding house girl jokes with a list of days and meals. The exchange highlights small pupils and comical missteps in a classroom setting.
They Were taken from Chios in the fourth century by Emperor Theodosius and placed in the Hippodrome at Constantinople where Venetians seized them in 1204. Venice and Constantinople, rivals in trade, used intrigue to redirect the Fourth Crusade toward destroying the Bosphorus city, enabling later Turkish continental power.
The oldtime Methodist revivalist John Allen is recalled for humor and grit. A story from the Boston Journal notes his wife’s rebuke in a carriage when he failed to assist her, with his witty reply about gallantry and buoyancy.
In a scene from From the Seat of the Scornful Jack and Joey watch a lion feed sugar from a trainer’s hand with similar curiosity but diverging inferences. Joey exclaims in awe while Jack dismisses the feat as trivial and doable.
A critique of The Twelve Pound Look contrasts stage themes with real life. It argues work empowers women like Mrs Oram, who quits a wealthy marriage to earn a living as a typewriter operator, finding dignity and purpose beyond consumer luxury.
Caney Kansas profiles the pipe line walker whose lonely days on straight gas lines cover vast prairie, walking from dawn to dusk to detect leaks and report them. The job pays about 100 dollars monthly and strains nerves as patrolmen endure monotony and isolation.
After fifteen years Swanson completed a wooden cube puzzle he spent a third of his life on. The inventor says thirty pieces must be known like an alphabet and the locks must harmonize for assembly or disassembly. He claims no one can take it apart and reassemble within twenty four hours.
In Bremerton Washington Walter Angell kicked open a sandbox box to reveal $2000 buried in sand. The discovery sparked a beach rush as boys from ages six to sixteen and later some men joined in digging for more money. Meanwhile in Washington Indiana Rev Frank N Palme bh criticizes Solomon’s wisdom linking it to wives and personal experience at a Bible conference.
A Harvard University mineral department investment of 2000 dollars in a single diamond about thirty years ago has grown to a value near 12000 dollars, yielding a gain of about 9000 due to rising diamond prices. The report notes the gem’s extraordinary appreciation as a lasting financial success for the university.
The article explains proper silo construction with a concrete bottom six inches deep plus three inches gravel and three inches concrete, plus cement and sand finish. It emphasizes one foot studding forms, Silo Foundations, and material choices like Cypress or Redwood, noting a 110 ton silo costs 200 to 400 dollars and advising an airtight removable door to keep silage from air exposure.
The writer describes how hens prefer a nest area sheltered and dark with tight nails to prevent collapse and an inch of ashes plus vermin destroyer for cleanliness. Ashy bedding with fine hay is favored over straw for comfort and durability. He suggests nesting near a haystack and imitates stacking as far as possible.
Samuel Coad describes feeding chicks corn meal milk and beef scraps with bran, keeping them in a crate by six months, feeding a small amount of poultry food daily, and maintaining wooden bottoms and straw bedding to burn out vermin and keep the hen and chicks clean.
The article states milk is the best digestion friendly feed for young pigs and emphasizes skim milk as nearly as valuable as whole milk for young stock. It urges grain and pasture at night, claims this increases feed efficiency, and notes bluegrass seed gathering should occur June 12 to 20 near Kentucky.
A farmer describes building a cheese vat from a tin wash boiler and a drainer from a splint basket, plus rennet sources and tablet uses. He stresses selecting profitable hogs, sow care, and proper cow digestion, warning to cull weak dogs and unruly horses and to replace with poultry-focused stock.
Notice states a certified copy of a court order directs sale of real estate in Putnam County Indiana to satisfy a debt plus costs. Sale set for 1914 at the Greencastle city hall, describing the southeast quarter of a half section with specific parcel lines and a court-ordered bid amount, with proceeds to be applied to the debt and costs. Also includes a separate notice for a court term in the same county calling defendants to appear in 1914.
Brock of Aberdeen Maryland touts a twenty year test for a cholera and diarrhea remedy. He claims it is quick and safe and has been sold during all those years with no reported issues. For sale by all dealers.
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