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Newspaper
Greencastle Herald
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1923
Page
4
The Greencastle Herald advertises obituaries at 1 per obituary with 5c per line for poetry. Cards of Thanks cost 50c each. Published daily except Sunday at 17-19 S Jackson Street under Charles J. Arnold Proprietor, with Second Class mail status at Greencastle post office.
The Ladies aid hosts an ice cream social on the lawn August 18 with Rev E L Myers and others invited. Beech Grove Church Ladies Aid plans an ice cream social at the Sutherlands home August 25 with music by Pollom sisters. Local visits include Bettis, Slavens, Frank, and Bettis families, plus updates on health and a horse injury recovery.
Leroy Garrett, seriously ill with pneumonia, is improving slowly. Mr and Mrs Glen Duncan attended the Greenlee Reunion last Sunday near Reno. Mr and Mrs Joe Garrett and daughter Stella and Mr and Mrs Emry Nichols and daughter Bertha, along with Mrs Merle Smith and daughter Mildred, were noted attendees.
Last Saturday night several couples visited across town including Mr and Mrs Morris Goodwin and Mr and Mrs Will Shuck with Claude Lawson, and Mr and Mrs Jess Elliott with daughter from Indianapolis. Elliott reunion hosted by James Elliott followed by visits to Glen Duncan and Alberta Heavin. Master Hubert Kelly from Greens Castle visiting Mrs Erie Duncan this week and Coatesville picnic attendance noted.
The excerpt from A Hyatt Verrill’s In the Wake of the Buccaneers describes a sailor named Trouble who overwhelms crewmates with grandiloquent words. His grotesque appearance contrasts with his hard work and good nature, while he bullies a French islander with explosive rhetoric and mock Latin phrases.
Miss Gladys Pott, famed for aiding English women, joins the British overseas settlement delegation bound for Australia. She argues that sending women alongside emigrant men helps secure marriages and strengthens colonial society amid a surplus of women at home.
The Gothard line with fifty tunnels connects Switzerland and Italy and includes the St. Gothard tunnel nearly ten miles long. The Simplon tunnel operates at lower altitude for express and freight. The Mount Cenis bore, completed in 1872, linked France and Italy, reducing reliance on old passes.
The Nobel Prizes are awarded yearly from Alfred Nobel's foundation with assets near 11 million dollars. Five prizes are given annually, totaling about 34 thousand dollars, for exceptional contributions in physics chemistry physiology or medicine literature and peace and international friendship.
In early Empire Day celebrations in Dawson City Yukon territory tidings spread of a silver ledge at Happy Creek 40 miles south. The news triggered a rush with boats and launches used to reach the site as revelers left the dance halls and gaming rooms in excitement.
Dissolution of partnership leads to a public sale Monday August 20 1922 starting 10 30 a m. at the Black farm east of Greencastle offering horses mules cows corn oats hay wheat implements wagons and many farm articles. Terms include six months credit at 6 percent and two percent off for cash with settlement required before removal. Black and Thomas O J Rector Ott Dobbs auctioneers dinner served.
George Coverhill of N Madison St credits Dean's Kidney Pills with curing his kidney and back pain. He says mornings the back muscles ached and kidneys varied in action until Mullin's Drug Store supplied the remedy. The pills reportedly left his backaches and kidneys acting regularly. Sold for 6 cents at dealers. Fister Milburn Co., Buffalo, N Y.
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