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Newspaper
Greencastle Herald
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1921
Page
2
Greencastle Ind paper The Herald lists notices including obituaries and cards of thanks with charges. Proprietor Wherles J Arnold publishes afternoon editions from 17 and 19 S Jackson Street. phone 65.
Reuben E Hall of Paris Missouri, living under the alias Harry E Thomas in Denver, meets the man he believed he killed during a 14 year haunting. A box car fight over a dice game led to a death that was not, and Hall reveals his true past and new life to LH Shatzer.
Lima Peru virtually the entire Peruvian educational system is placed under American professors tasked with completing a ten year reform effort. Dr Harry Erwin Bard named director of education by President Leguia with over twenty American professors under him to tailor the system from primary grades to university to regional needs.
A national survey of 377 cities blames red tape and political meddling for poor school conditions. It finds teachers’ salaries total 180 million dollars, 64 percent of current expenses, and capital outlay mainly funds sites and new buildings.
In New York a giant rat stalked John Bolte's bathroom while he cared for his five year old daughter Leonore who had swallowed rat poison. Neighbors killed the creature after a five minute struggle. the child is expected to recover. A separate Brooklyn incident credits Patrolman Richard Faye for roping off streets minutes before a three story building collapsed, averting disaster.
Frank Wallen of New Jersey heads a party fishing in the Delaware Bay off Lewes Breakwater. He hooks a shark weighing 1% pounds as the group reports better luck on this side of the bay after two weeks of large catches.
Lancaster Wisconsin reports farmer Doll of Beetown injured when a tire dirt bubble exploded at 70 pounds pressure. Sparks flew as dirt and sand hit his eyes, leaving him seriously hurt and likely permanently blind.
London reports a dustman who survived with a beating heart for nearly eight hours after breathing stopped. After Whitsun he developed headache and drowsiness, tests showed brain tumor, and post mortem attributed death to brain tumor not respiration. An expert notes heart activity can continue without life.
New York protest by T Gilbert Pearson president of National Associations of Audubon Societies cites Alaska bounty data of over 15000 eagles. He urges halt to killing until legal relief and notes Governor Riggs hinted bounty removal but no action taken.
Philadelphia lawyer Michael D. Hayes has not spoken to his wife for a year following a mysterious August trip. Mrs Hayes, 25, filed for maintenance, citing a two week absence and ongoing silence at home.
Captain Roald Amundsen and the Maud aim to drift past the North Pole using wireless communication. After repairs in Seattle, he intends to sail next summer with a crew including Dr. H. V. Sverdup, Oscar Wisting, and seven natives, hoping an northeasterly current from Cape Serdze will push them toward the Atlantic.
A. B. Tunning of Nantucket Mass was rescued after 12 days adrift in a disabled motorboat off Melinie Island Rockland Maine. He sailed July 18 from Nantucket toward Plymouth for the Pilgrim pageant and drifted in fog with little food or water. He told rescuers of plans to cut off a toe for bait if food ran out.
Pekin university plans a tannery curriculum with twelve weekly lab hours. The program uses modern leather processing machinery from the United States and updated chemicals and tanning compounds. Dr. H. Vincent and John Wang will oversee the course.
Roy Rhodda, missing both wooden legs, swam 300 yards to shore after a boat with five men overturned during a drowning incident involving Harry Woodard. Rhodda said two companions used the wooden legs to reach shore.
Spread of pellagra in the South prompts alarm from the public health service. In one state cases have doubled since last year and officials prepare to cope with the rising outbreak.
Mexico City police now believe the assassination of Gen. Masimiliano Kloss in front of his home was the work of a German agent. The German motive cited is revenge for Kloss publishing alleged German military secrets and a book on asphyxiating gas. Kloss served as head of the artillery department under the Carranza regime and had seen extensive combat.
Lem Wah, age 72, retired Canadian Pacific railroad interpreter in New York, who left his wife 36 years ago, sails to China to spend his remaining days with her. His son inherited his railroad pension and position.
An Ohio State forestry expert notes United States virgin timber has fallen to one sixth of its original area from 1.37 hundred million acres to 22 million. Annual consumption runs 40 billion board feet plus railway ties pulpwood and fuel, far outpacing growth by about five to one.
At seventy four, Luther Burbank remains vibrant and works among his beloved plants. He pursued a spineless cactus, promising it would come. The hour arrives as a real spineless cactus is shown, with Burbank rubbing his face against the plant in triumph.
After 33 years of service Captain A B De Kay resigns as commanding officer of the local National Guard company. The unit recently became a howitzer unit and was issued mules to haul artillery. He says he is a rifle and bayonet fighter and could not adapt to the change.
Johns Hopkins trustees announce a hospital dictum capping surgeon charges at 1000 dollars for any operation, regardless of patient wealth, and limiting attending physician fees to 35 dollars per week, applying to all hospital physicians and surgeons.
Washington bulletin notes Tampico rose on oil to become a major port with 1906 population under 17,000 growing to over 100,000. War boosted demand for fuel, rents rose, then postwar readjustment hit. Tampico surpasses Vera Cruz in bulk trade and remains an important oil and port center with improving sanitation and a growing English speaking community.
The marriage by contract of Dr. Leslie Spier, a professor of anthropology at Seattle University now teaching at Columbia, to Miss Erna Gunther of Brooklyn was announced. Their signatures were acknowledged before Justice McCook, making the ceremony legal under a New York statute.
Rose Bevilacova, three, died after a pear fragment lodged in her throat. Doctors in Memorial hospital spent hours trying to remove the obstruction without success.
Farm chimneys should rise from the ground and avoid brackets to reduce fire and insurance risk. A moderate house needs one or two chimneys with multiple flues, or a separate flue per stove for better drafting. Use a strong brick or stone foundation, two brick exterior walls, and a one brick partition when needed.
The cow owner who delays weaning faces greater trouble by letting the calf nurse. A calf can be guided quickly to drink from a bucket with determined effort. Early weaning reduces ongoing bother and the risk of a disruptive, hungry young bull charging and demanding its way.
Instructions describe making a cow cover from a large gunny sack ripped open and tied with strings under the forelegs and across the back to cover the rump. The design aims to protect both the milking cow and the behind milker from tail switching during milking.
Greencastle schedules list eastbound and northbound trains with numbers No 4 No 10 No 2 No 11 and others. Timings include 2:55 am 6:48 pm 1:55 am and 8:52 am with notations for MONON Telephone lines and daily service in a local period rail timetable.
A damaged OCR shows train numbers and times listed irregularly such as No. 46 No. 2 No. 16 3:35 a.m and 9:19 a.m 1:39 p.m. with unclear origin destinations and scattered codes like csediviccccocceses and Ekees 8:34 a TM. The snippet includes partial station references and inconsistent formatting.
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