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Newspaper
Greencastle Herald
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1920
Page
3
Forbes notes that shouting fire in crowded rooms triggers stampedes and rational behavior saves lives. The piece argues wartime price booms decline, warns against pushing prices and orders, and cautions that raw materials and labor costs keep prices from dropping drastically. It ends urging calm and clear exits.
The article notes peat’s extensive use as fuel in Northern Europe and as fertilizer in the United States. It discusses European by products, surgical dressings substitutes, and peat’s role in soil fertilization due to nitrogen content and mechanical soil effects.
The San Salvador capital is described as a volcano lighthouse region with numerous eruptions from surrounding peaks. Taale and Santa Ana volcanoes show renewed activity with smoke, flames, and occasional sea flashes, raising alarm for residents and coast watchers.
Explorer Mr. Broan Andrews reports a goral described as rubbery in motion during an expedition for the American Museum of Natural History. The animal sprinted down a near vertical cliff, outdistancing dogs, then bounded eight to ten feet between slim ledges, appearing to spring from rock to rock with remarkable agility.
At the Hetch Hetchy project Cher is Creek power line a three mile concrete flume once trapped many deer who fell in. Plank ladders were installed along the flume to give deer footing and allow escape. Since installation there have been no repeats of the problem.
The Times-Dispatch notes chromaesthesia in about one eighth of people and describes experiments where sunlight through a lens and prism produces audible sounds. A spinning slotted disk creates alternating light and shadow as colors from the spectrum interact with lampblack or silk, yielding measurable sounds when red or green light is used.
In the Paumotu islands the population has fallen from 4,000 to about 2,500 over 15 years with half the isles uninhabited. Epidemics tied to contact with civilized nations devastate communities, a shift Frederick OBrien notes in Century Magazine. Tahitians and Paumotuans, once linked, diverge in culture and vitality.
Fishermen of Samese use ghost boats to trap fish. A white painted beard-like board sits low on the water to frighten fish into jumping over it. Behind the board nets catch those that leap, while smaller fry are excluded from the nets.
The bush master is the largest venomous snake in the Amazon region of South America. It attains 12 to 15 feet, with yellowish pink body and brown patterns. Fangs are large and bites can be fatal within about ten minutes. It inhabits dens and ground holes near river banks and does not climb trees.
A narrator quizzes a wan man by the Missouri river about Sitting Bull and rumors. The man denies hearing of Sitting Bull and explains people do not drink river water but sometimes suck a piece like molasses candy.
A 0-foot wooden Buddha stands on a golden lotus in a Mongolian temple at Urga. Devotees receive holy water from a filthy jug and bathe, prostrate, kiss silk draperies, and scoop sacred dirt as hundreds of tiny Buddhas watch. Roy Chapman Andrews notes the scene as intoxicating barbaric splendor.
The Smithsonian notes multiple colonial flags before the 1777 flag act creating 13 red white stripes and 13 white stars on blue. The first public display is dated August 6 1777 at Fort Schuyler. John Paul Jones reportedly hoisted Stars and Stripes on the Ranger in November 1777.
Mrs. Ritchie recalls visits to Sir Edwin Landseer the animal painter. The anecdote recounts his dog waiting by his feet as he worked and later fetching the painter’s hat from the hall and laying it at his feet.
A reflection on friendship from Margaret Bean cited in Christian Herald describes friendship as an elastic force that can stretch beyond ambition pride and vanity. It can lighten dark paths smooth rough roads and soften unchangeable troubles making it one of the world’s most beautiful things.
A spring evening tale recalls a young man failing to sleep after a dance outing. A freight train blocks a crossing and a milkman, grinning from a running board, taps his shoulder. The narrator pays hush money for the odd awakening, admitting his own busy imagination.
The piece recalls harsh laws from Mary I to James I punishing alleged communications with the dead. It notes Edward Barber of Ongar burned after stocks and trial, Prothero jailed for anti occult pamphlet, and Dutch merchant Kolep sent to the Tower for claiming a near death experience.
Shanghai is described as the world’s only international city under treaty powers excluding France. Foreign residents face extraterritoriality with American, British, Russian, Japanese, and Italian legal arrangements, including American district attorneys and consular courts. Neighbors may act with impunity while others face penalties.
The passage decries water and indolence as spreading disease and moral decay. A lazy person is likened to an empty dwelling overrun by vermin, while activity preserves the home and wards off mischief. It warns that neglect invites thieves and evil characters to dwell where effort is absent.
The term Dutch derives from the German deutsch meaning German and originally signified German or Teutonic. In English early use referred to German people, with Netherland speech labeled low Dutch. Over time usage narrowed to refer to inhabitants of the Netherlands and their language, influencing phrases like Dutch furniture from seventeenth century Holland.
Classified ads list a six room one and half story cottage in good condition at 8108 Locust Street offered by Theodore Crawley. Also advertised are farm loans from Brown & Moffett and landscaping services by W H Evans of Greencastle Indiana. A local seed corn loss story is paired with RAT SNAP animal pest remedy. Public sales and office contacts follow. A girl is wanted for general house work by Maude Bridges. no washing or ironing.
An advertisement promotes RAT SNAP as a rat and mouse killer that leaves no smell and dries up inside. It claims the product scares away what it does not kill, comes in cake form, is unappealing to cats and dogs, and is sold in three sizes 25c 40c and 1.00 by John Cook and Sons J Sudranski Co. and R P Mullins.
Mrs Emily Shaw testifies RAT SNAP traps rats and claims twelve killed in a week after buying a 50 cent box. She notes it supports her household chores and even raises chicks. RAT SNAP sold in three sizes 25c 50c and 1.00 and guaranteed by John Cook and Sons J Sudranski Co and R P Mullins.
An item reports on a farmer N Windsor extolling RAT SNAP after a rat problem that nearly killed a dog and notes three sizes 25c 50c and 1.00 sold by John Cook & Sons J Sudranski Co and R P Mullins. Also there is a sale of two registered Durec boars and two registered Dureg sows from C J Arnold and a want ad seeking an educated woman to represent a Greencastle business with commission and bonuses in Indianapolis.
All Saints Church in New York City, founded in 1824, holds a museum of Dutch antiquities and unique colonial features. Notable items include open slave galleries, the sole colonial window remaining in New York, and the last three locker chancel arrangement in the East, all viewable during regular services.
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