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Newspaper
Greencastle Herald
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 18, 1921
Page
4
The Philadelphia Ledger notes that WWI injuries showed brains can lose small amounts without mental loss, as long as essential structures remain intact. It cites cases of up to a teacupful lost yet preserved function, explains compression as deadly, and mentions childhood skull reshaping by Flathead Indians and other aboriginal groups.
The Scientific American outlines a coming era of home radiophone music with central stations broadcasting concerts and speeches to simple home receivers. Already several stations operate and one company offers a cabinet phonograph style receiver with concealed loudspeaking unit for whole room listening.
A bashful young man wooes the daughter of a great chieftain. He carves a loving message on a brick and drops it into the cave. The chieftain is struck by the brick and the lovers win approval as dawn reveals the pair together.
An ex corporal of the Twenty eighth Canadian battalion recalls fishing trip periods on the Arras front in 1918. In April 1918 Captain Salmon led the company while Lieutenant Wales served as his officer, with his batman also named Wales. Each trench period carried the countersign of a fish name like Haddock or Herring, giving the unit the nickname fishy trip.
The captain recalls a massive waterspout pursuing the Esperanza in the Caribbean. He describes a column about 100 feet thick and several hundred feet high that formed a quarter mile behind the ship and moved swiftly toward it. Clever steering kept the vessel from being engulfed.
A Newfoundland reader reports a lobster caught in Newfoundland waters with a claw forming a clear head and face including eyes nose and mouth. From another angle the same claw resembles a laughing girl. The head length measures about two inches.
Pedestrians on Lower Addiscombe road Croydon England saw a large black cat perched high in a monkey tree attacked for minutes by two birds pecking from separate trees. A rescuer with a short ladder and pole freed the cat.
A young man missing for two years after killing another man in a jealous fit in Tou louse, France, was found dead in a garret above an unoccupied house. His body hung from a nail, discovered by his father.
A man who stole $3,500 in radium has returned it claiming he just learned its value. The Boston Transcript notes the odd honesty in a troubled world.
Capt. Bruce Bairnsfather recalls wandering a maze like the British War Office, where a stern guide and endless corridors trap a visitor. A lift descends and rises as crowds assemble, a playful yet menacing maze with narrow escapes and a fateful door.
A London mining engineer H S Gordon finds blue enamel marked artifact in a vacant plot once garden allotment. Diggers believe edge of an old Roman cemetery lies beneath. Strata reveal centuries of London history with items from 400 500 B C to Elizabethan pipes and gold collar fragment.
Charles H. Taylor of the Boston Globe quips at a meeting of the international arbitration board about swatting flies. He notes rising files in Boston and cites his own efforts in restaurants and soda places, warning Indianapolis to stay vigilant.
A French invention described as a land and water ship travels on endless tread wheels on land like a motorbus and becomes a launch on water. Recently tested in Marseilles it carried six passengers and used a wartime tank origin.
The article praises the first judge of the Japanese Supreme Court robes as weighty and artful. It notes a black gown with an embroidered collar woven into the gown, royal purple cresting seven flowers, and a black cap with cloud patterns.
A new single leaf bascule bridge across the John Day river in Oregon uses an innovative lifting and counterbalancing system. It is hand raised via a capstan bar under the tower, with falling counterweights settling on a support at the bottom as the span ascends, lightening the load progressively.
The daily NSW to Blue Mountains passenger express was nicknamed the Fish Train. It carried no fish freight, named after engineer Saimion fireman Herring and conductor Mullet, three well known fish-related surnames of the era.
An unusual watchmaking feat in Cambridge Massachusetts shows a pin bored through its length with a wire threaded inside the hole as proof of skill. The craftsman says he worked on a telephone principle around the same time as Alexander Graham Bell.
A Marienbad cafe keeper in Australia owns a peculiar hat woven from straw that has been used in drinks by European crowned heads. Each straw carries a royal touch, making the headpiece a singular claim to distinction.
In 1915 Mrs. Colbert of Dennebook Nova Scotia, an aged woman, noted five generations alive and boasted a Bible verse claim about lineage Arise daughter and go unto thy daughter for thy daughter's daughter hath a son.
A Fort Collins man reports his pet skunk and a caged squirrel living together, the squirrel gnawing fur from the skunk to build a nest. The bald spot on the skunk mirrors the squirrel’s new fur nest, a humorous outcome of their resourceful pairing.
In a Pennsylvania poultry yard a bantam rooster sits on a nest and raises four newly hatched chicks after eight weeks of sitting. The rooster, who usually crows at 4 a.m., appeared on the nest to care for the eggs. Seven eggs were incubated with four successfully hatching.
An entirely new dinosaur species has been discovered in Alberta under the guidance of Dr. W A Parkes of the University of Toronto. The bones, from a creature extinct for thousands of years, were found by a party exploring the province under Parkes' instruction.
A Quebec reader reports a young man registered his own birth after learning his parents had never registered him when he sought a birth certificate. The case highlights gaps in parental registration practices and the need for formal record correction.
A Manitoba hunter fired once and killed a hare that had been perched in a tree after being captured by a large hawk. The shot ended both predator and prey in a single action.
A 71 year old descendant claims the Calvin family guard the burial location of John Calvin who died May 27 1564 in Geneva Switzerland The man says he has defied vows of secrecy to reveal the grave site in the Plain Palais cemetery but the exact spot remains unidentified by authorities seeking clues.
A Berlin mother who gave birth to two healthy daughters later welcomed a third girl seven weeks after the first two. Reports say mother and all three babies are doing well. Triplets are rare and the third birth in a short span is extraordinary.
A new solar powered engine at Mead near Cairo uses five 205 foot boilers with five chimney shaped mirrors. It ran for an hour producing 1 442 pounds of steam at about 1 psi pressure, equivalent to 68 horsepower. The plant occupies one acre of land.
A Black man sentenced to death at Lake Charles asked for the scaffold to be painted white to match his white suit shoes and socks. He also requested that the executioner and attending officials wear white, a request noted in the record.
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