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Newspaper

Greencastle Herald

Location

Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America

Date

Aug 23, 1913

Page

3

Trustee Notices for Madison Township and Ali Creek Township

Trustee notices state Ernest Kive will conduct business at his residence in Madison Township and Ali Creek Township each Wednesday and Saturday, listing locations and days for official business dealings. The notice references Mild Creek Downetup and directs residents to attend at designated homes for township matters.

Vnto Mild Creek Ali Creek Township Transac Ernest Kive

Local Trustee Schedules For Ben Walls Oliver Stringer D V Etcheson

In Jackson Township and Sackso Township notices list trustee Benjamin Walls will meet at his offices every Friday to conduct official business. Oliver Stringer says he will be at his residence on Tuesday and Saturday each week to transact office matters. D V Etcheson announces timetable for Monroe Township with Bainbridge visits every Tuesday for office duties.

Jackson Township Sackso Township Benjamin Walls Ofice Oliver Stringer Monroe Township Bainbridge Myron Township Fillmore Otto B. Rector

Floyd Township Notice of Office Hours and Residence

Floyd Township announces that IE will be at my residence in Fin Township each Werdlneld to transact the business of my office Fred Todd.

Fin Township Fred Todd

Marion Township Residence Notice in Fillmore District

A brief public notice lists Otto B. Rector at an address in Marion Township and mentions events on a Friday and a Tuesday in Fillmore, indicating an official residency or address filing.

Railroad Time Table Fragment

Rail timetable snippet shows daily and Sunday departures with times listed in a compact schedule. Includes destinations and running hours, with formation of a few irregular entries and exchanges noted.

Putnam County Sealed Bids For Macadam Road Project

Board of Commissioners of Putnam County Indiana invites sealed bids on August 30 1913 for improving 3984.6 feet of macadam road in Cloverdale and Jefferson townships known as the J S Haltom et al free macadam road. Bids filed with the County Auditor by August 39 1913 at 5 o clock pm will be opened and contract awarded. The board may reject any or all bids.

Board of Commissioners Putnam County Indiana Greencastle Cloverdale Jefferson Townships J. S. Haltom Et al A. M. Gardner James EF. Houck James B. Bunten Board of Commissioners of Co. L. Atrhart Marion Township James FE. Houck Puttern County Co. L. Airhart Board-of-Commissioners Aid Board Auust Putt County Audhors D County Washington Township Ald George W. Skelton M. Gardner James BF. Houck James RB. Bunten WL. Atrhart

Daily Herald Follow Service Offers Home News During Absence

The Greencastle Daily Herald promotes a vacation follow service costing 25 cents a month. For subscribers, a daily call reports news from Greencastle and vicinity while they are away, with orders taken by calling phone 65 before departure.

Greencastle Daily Herald Greencastle

Notice of Final Settlement of Estate in Putnam County

Notice to creditors heirs and legatees of Johnson C Herod deceased to appear in Putnam Circuit Court Green Castle on September 1 1913 to show cause why final settlement accounts should not be approved and heirs to prove heirship and receive distributive shares Witness Arthur J Hamrick Clerk July 30 1913 Green Castle Indiana

Johnson C. Herod Putnam Circuit Court Greencastle Indiana Arthur J. Hamrick

Notice to Macadam Road Contractors in Marion Township

Public notice in Greencastle Indiana invites sealed bids by August 30 1913 for improving 14320 feet of macadam road in Marion township matching plans on file in the Auditor’s office. Bids opened at 2 PM August 30 1913 in Green Castle with award to the contractor meeting law.

Constipation Remedies Featured by Hollister Team

Hollister's A. M. Team promotes constipation relief with a 35c Owl Drug Store remedy claiming to banish foul breath improve complexion and relieve headaches and sluggish feelings.

Hollister A. M Owl Drug Store

To Hold Hose in Position in Garden Care

A garden hose needs steady handling for proper watering. The device uses a tripod base with bent ends driven into the soil to prevent tipping, allowing careful sprinkler action even with strong water pressure.

Avoid Excessive Churning In Butter Making

The article describes butter making practices to control moisture and salt. It explains stopping the churn when granules resemble wheat or rice, versus peas, drawing off buttermilk, adding water, and churning ten to twelve more revolutions. Water is removed, salt added, especially with the Disbrow churn, during about twenty minutes. Moisture reaches fifteen to sixteen percent and salt three to three and a half percent. Cream temperature is regulated to yield firm butter in about thirty minutes.

Feeding the Calf Early Diet Guidelines

The text advises against overfeeding newborn calves. In the first seventy two hours a calf should receive three to four quarts of milk daily, given in three feedings. As the calf grows, avoid large increases at once and gradually match intake to the calf’s digestive capacity.

Ills of Women and Relief From Constipation

A short note promotes Chamberlain's Tablets as a reliable remedy for chronic constipation in women. The ad claims the pills ease nervousness dizziness and a sallow complexion and are easy and pleasant to take. Sold by all dealers.

Chamberlain

Humpreys Veterinary Remedies Free Book Offer

A vintage advertisement urges farmers to request a free 723 page veterinary manual from Humphreys Jomainopathic Medicine Company at 1 S William Street New York City. It promises value in diagnosing diseases and treating animals, claiming the book will save money and require no purchase to receive.

F. Rumphroys Humphreys Humphreys Jomeopathic Medicina Company Swilliam Street New York City Mary Doliara

Retort Courteous in Trial Testimony Sparks Courtroom Moment

An elderly witness for the plaintiff in a city trolley company accident case faces a harsh cross examination by the railroad defense. The attorney demands a yes or no answer, prompting the witness to quip that the lawyer may be an idiot. Courtesy then returns to the day in court.

Trollege Lippincott’s

Fire Precautions in France Inadequate Outside Major Towns

The report notes that, aside from larger towns, fire precautions in France are inadequate. Many towns of 500 to 3,000 people lack water supplies beyond wells and rely on bucket draws, with little or no fire apparatus beyond occasional hand pumps used by contractors.

France

Confidence Well Founded in Chamberlain's Colic Remedy

This advertisement asserts broad trust in Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy based on user experience and noted cures of colic diarrhoea and dysentery. It states the product is for sale by all dealers.

Constipation remedy praised by local drug store ad

A worn ad touts Hollister's KH M Tea as regulating bowels improving digestion and purging impurities. It claims to cleanse the blood and relieve digestive discomfort and foul breath. Sold at the Owl Drug store with home delivery options.

Hollister Owl Drug Store

Born In Bestowed Knighthood The Wizard of the Air

A fragmented narration chronicles public reactions to an aviator known as Mr Hilfly. The crowd labels him a mad inventor and the wizard of the air, praising his daring and noting his prominent status in the nation as a distinguished fellow countryman.

Mr. Hilfly Air

Origin of Arkansas Name and Statehood Timeline

The name Arkansas derives from an Indian tribe encountered by early explorers within the region. French settlers arrived around 1685 at Arkansas Post. The area belonged to the Louisiana Territory until 1812 and to the Missouri Territory until 1819, when Arkansas Territory was formed. It became a state on June 15, 1836.

Arkansas Arkansas Post Louisiana Territory Missouri Territory Arkansas Territory Indian Territory

Wasted Food Feeds Six Hundred at Chatham Dockyard Warships

During winter the English Salvation Army planned to provide fifty thousand meals from ship waste at Chatham dockyards. While crews were ashore, meals were still supplied and counted as waste. One night alone six hundred people were fed with food that would have been thrown away.

English Salvation Army Chatham

Saint Veronica Handkerchief and painted Saviour eyes story

The Handkerchief of Saint Veronica created a pictorial sensation with the Saviour's eyes appearing to open and close. It was painted by Gabriel Max, a Munich school artist, in 1874. Also ad blurbs about a laxative for a baby and Hollister's R. M Tea available at a drug store.

Gabriel Max

Cremations Rise in England with Growing Society Activity

The London correspondent reports a steady rise in cremations in Great Britain during 1909, totaling 865 and up by sixty from 1908. England’s first crematorium opened at Woking in 1885, with 8121 cremations since then and thirteen crematoria now in operation. The Cremation Society of England has intensified propaganda and public interest, while a new Edinburgh cremation society forms with about 180 members.

England London New York Medical Journal Great Britann Woking Great Britain Cremation Society of Edinburgh

Little Worlds and the Race to Find Asteroids

The text explains how asteroids and comets are first identified on photographic plates by short lines recorded during long exposures. It notes Eros and Asteroid No. 568 as especially intriguing due to their orbits, with continuous observation given when possible.

Earth Solar System Moon Aphelion la Jupiter

Discovery of liquid crystals sparks scientific debate

Twenty years after the initial announcement by Professor Lehmann the existence of liquid crystals drew scepticism. The phenomenon, later substantiated, shows certain chemical liquids at specific temperatures behaving as crystals with double refraction and Neprotism, though their molecular structure remains unclear. Small disruptive forces can deform these delicate liquids due to their slight rigidity.

Lehmann

Does the sun change shape periodically

A scientist, based on heliometer measurements and photographs, suggests the sun periodically changes from oblate to prolate forms. The solar globe is viewed as a vibrating body with varying equatorial and polar diameters, tied to the sunspot cycle, though changes would be extremely small and require delicate observations.

Enormous South Wales Chain Cables For Atlantic Liners

Gigantic chain cables used in Atlantic liners measure three and three quarter inches in diameter for the links and about twenty two and a quarter inches long weighing around 160 pounds each. Tests show a breaking stress of 265.7 tons. under 370 tons the links elongated but did not crack.

South Wales

A Country Doctor Passes Away in Scotland

Dr. James Morris, a longtime Scottish physician and one of the oldest medical practitioners, has died at Dunfermline. In a jubilee address he recalled a fifty year career that included attending 50,000 patients, chloroform administered 10,000 times with no fatal results, 6,000 births, 1,000 without a death among consecutive cases, about 1,000,000 visits, and roughly 600,000 miles traveled.

James Morris Scotland Dunfermline Westminster

Two and a Half Year Old Pleads Not to Be Bent

Ndith aged two and a half was taken from the table for washing after a hearty meal. She told her caregiver you can wash me and rock me but don't bend me. This line appears in The De- Uneator.

Ndith

Department Secretary Wilson on farm aid and cheap food

In Washington Honoble Fruit James Wilson secretary of agriculture notes aid to farmers and gains from darum wheat the wheat testing marine and potesh extraction. He predicts future products will be cheap and accessible to all and recalls a boy and grapes versus carrots as a cost lesson.

James Wilson Secretary of Agriculture Washington Wilson Mr. Wilson Boothblack

A Convincing Argument

Quote from Chicago Record-Herald remarks on a judge and a young attorney after a favorable verdict. The attorney thanks the judge for attentive hearing and the judge quips about being right and foolish.

End seat hog joke twists saintly record in comic exchange

In The Hall at the Gate a candidate asks St Peter if his record is clean. Peter notes the red ink remark E S H meaning End seat hog, underscoring a comic moral about favoritism and seating.

St. Peter Cleveland Plain Dealer

Lobster Fisherman Found Sleep Afloat

Obscure poetic lines describe a fisherman at sea and a tranquil farewell as the speaker notes the loss and suggests the subject rests with other lobsters beneath the water. The verse conveys mourning and nautical imagery without explicit details.

Hollister's R. M. Yea Sale at Owl Drug Store

Advertisement notes headaches sallow cheeks dull eyes dry lips as signs of impure blood and upset stomach and urges taking Hollister's R M Yea to be in the swim with the Owl Drug Store selling it.

Hollister R. M. Yea Hhe Ovwl Drug Store

Bargain sales spark talk on shop girl strain

Mrs Goodart voices sympathy for overworked shop girls while Mr Goodart suggests avoiding bargain sales as a remedy. The Catholic Standard and Times notes a summer tonic promising red blood cleansing the stomach and bowels, and Owl Drug store advertises Hollister's R. M. Tea for sale.

Mrs. Goodart Mr. Goodart Cathe Olic Standard and Times Hollister Owl Drug Store

Franks Confession and Her Dilemma Comic Exchange

In a Kansas City Journal snippet a caller asks Mr Gizzard about life insurance while the desk man admits he could insure more but feels overvalued after a note from his employer. Also a Bessie and Mabel exchange shows a quarrel over a ring and a lost sing.

Gizzard Bessie Mabel Larry Kansas City Journal

Shipboard First Voyage Testimony

A brief excerpt describes a novice seaman aboard a ship facing seasickness with the doctor asking about stomach tolerance and the patient replying that only his hand stays firm. The dialogue captures a moment of strain and resilience at sea.

The Titled Husband

A witty exchange frames a man’s financial loss as a consequence of a troubled family tie. The remark implies inheritance disputes and a failing in law as the source of his downfall.

Monon Route Sells Chattanooga Excursion Tickets

In Chattanooga near Lookout Mountain a G. A. R. encampment prompts Monon Route to offer excursion fares from Greencastle to Chattanooga at 11.60 dollars with return by September 28 extended to October 17. Special cars depart Greencastle September 14 at 3 26 P M joining the Department Special at Louisville. Reservations to W W Gilgis Traveling Passenger Agent Monon Route Bedford Indianapolis September 10.

Monon Chattanooga Greencastle Department Special Louisville W. W. Gilgis Bedford Indianapolis J. D. Ellis

Spaunhurst Osteopaths CA Dr Fedrick Joins Practice

Dr Fedrick completes a three year Osteopathy course at Kirksville and joins Dr Spaunhurst in Greencastle at Prevo Block. The practice operates with phone contact 226.

Fedrick Kirksville Spaunhurst Prevo Block Greencastle

First-Class Vault Work At Reasonable Prices

Vault replacement and repair offered by CHAS. WYATT with contact via phone 2 on 718. Services highlighted as high quality at affordable rates.

Chas. Wyatt

Train routes and schedules for Monon Route agent J O Guis

June 1 to Sept 30 1913 information lists all points in Alberta Arizona British Columbia California Colorado Illinois Kentucky Manitoba Maryland Mexico Michigan Minnesota Montana New Mexico North Carolina Ontario Oregon South Dakota Tennessee Utah Virginia Washington West Virginia Wisconsin Wyoming. For rates times and reservations contact Agent Monon Route J O Guis.

Linn Ct Alberta Arizona British Columbia California Kentucky Manitoba Maryland Mexico Michigan Minnesota Montana New Mexico Northarolina Ontario Oregon South Th Tennessee Utah Virginia Washington West Virginia Wisconsin Wyoming Monon

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