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Newspaper
Greencastle Herald
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 23, 1919
Page
4
In the Journal Do Medicine de Bordeaux Doctor Nadal urges soldiers to wade through running streams and stay submerged for portions of a river crossing. He estimates a crossing of a river about 1 ? feet wide and up to nine feet deep, with loads from 66 to 88 pounds per man.
The gray battleship Baltimore moored near Tompkinsville for several days, drawing crowds. Built in 1888 by the Cramps, she is the navy's oldest active fighting ship, a former Dewey era cruiser that led the first U S troopship convoy and helped lay the North Sea mine barrage.
Rookies wait for issued clothing as a fat top sergeant seeks a blouse. The quartermaster searches piles but finds nothing large enough. An impatient voice at line end demands a shelter half so they can move on.
A Louisville Courier-Journal item describes a social scene where a hostess asks guests if they have a strong imagination. Women boast they do, suggesting imagining drinks as if real cocktails with pleasant effects and no downsides or aftereffects.
A Pan American Union note describes Utilla in the Caribbean as an ideal island home for Americans with a labor light regime and no farming needed. The text claims English speaking inhabitants, US textbooks, high grade schools, and a strong religious presence with fourteen Methodist churches and six Adventist congregations.
Moving pictures offer educational value in anatomy as Maj. B D Maddick demonstrates a human skeleton disassembling and reassembling on film. The technique could extend to limb movements in health and disease, with potential to become a lasting teaching tool for surgeons investigators and teachers.
A reader asks if soapstone stoves are still purchasable, recalling older generations. The piece notes many are gone like early cast iron stoves and backs against fireplaces, with fuel and smoke sharing a single outlet.
Charles Ingvaldsen proposes heat resisting building stone made by mixing ground mica with a clay binder to form blocks plates or other shapes and firing at a temperature to fuse the mica The same method with equal parts mica and quartz produces a stone that withstands very high temperatures and offers electrical insulation values
Victorian statistics show 26 018 deaths from bites and wild beasts in British India in 17 with about 400 more than in WAG. 2 170 people were killed by wild animals. tigers caused 1 000, leopards 330, wolves and bears 280, elephants and hyenas 89. Other animals accounted for 456 deaths with 89 to pigs and 199 to crocodiles.
An optimistic 19th century view notes South America’s untouched natural resources and vast frontiers. It highlights Argentina as a developed region, the River Plate system, Patagonia, Tierra del Fuego, and rich forests in Paraguay. The piece warns newcomers need money and Spanish for success.
Simon Lake, famed submarine inventor, says he will attempt to salvage 5 million dollars in gold from the sunken British ship Huzzar off Port Morris New York. The treasure has lain for 11 years and Lake plans to use a new salvaging submarine to raise it, potentially while singing and playing a ukulele on the ocean floor.
The Sahara covers northern Africa in a 2 500 000 square mile arid expanse. It ranges from below sea level to 8 000 feet, but most is a dry sandy waste with rare oases. Hot dry winds and scarce rain shape a hostile landscape with ostrich camels jackals vipers and lizards among its fauna. Caravans across routes mix Arabs Moors Jews and blacks while danger lurks along trade paths and bones mark ancient trails.
Visitors in Paris witness the opening of the Bibliotheque et Musee de la Guerre. The institution aims to collect historic material for public display and to enable future historians to write about the war, countering German documentary influence with a new French archive.
The old Revere House in Boston once showcased a wall shield listing famous guests from Jenny Lind to Emperor Dom Pedro. Once a prestige address for travelers, the hotel has long stood as a survival and now exits business, despite its storied Royal Suite.
Investigations by the Mexican government at San Juan Teotihuacan, 27 miles from Mexico City, uncover two nearly perfect granite heads of the air god Quetzalcoatl. The pyramid complex remains disputed in origin, with sun and moon mounds measured at 761 by 721 feet and 216 feet high, linked to a pre Toltec era tribe from the sixth century.
A dialogue shows a speaker requesting a loan while another offers advice instead. The exchange reveals the tone of financial pressure and the pursuit of practical guidance over direct funds as a path to resolving the situation.
A humorous exchange quotes the Boston Transcript asking why Mr. Tompkins never married. He replies that it is because he earned a bachelor’s degree in college.
A Glasgow Herald report cites Kreuz Zeitung and Kirchen Anzeiger sermons urging patience as Germany endures postwar humilation. Clergy counsel believers to accept terms, wait for divine timing, and reflect while the nation endures tribulation and pursues a future rise.
Amethyst once ranked high for color light play and polish but its popularity waned after Brazilian deposits cut value. Among quartz varieties it was most valued for engraving with ancient intagli on light stones. rare Egyptian, Etruscan, and Roman engravings exist including Trajan and Dioscorides, with pieces in Paris and other collections.
The bulletin notes fish like goldfish and silvers, top minnows from Texas and Tawail, and a small Girardinus species as mosquito larvae eaters. Predatory aquatic insects, birds, and bats also prey on mosquitoes. Plants such as eucalyptus, castor oil, and chinaberry are popular but scientifically unconfirmed as repellents.
The troopship Olympic docked at six o'clock with 4,900 returned soldiers aboard. Eleven special trains were formed to move troops to demobilization points. The first special left at 7:45, others at 15 minute intervals. Within three hours all soldiers were en route for the interior. Troops averaged 445 men per train and 150 cars were used.
The Utagaki was an early Japanese practice dating to the fifth century or earlier where young men and women gathered to compose and recite poems in blossoms. Winners earned affection and often marriage, with social rewards and jealousy shaping outcomes as poetry and flirtation drove courtship.
A Honolulu based company plans to produce 2000 ukuleles monthly, tapping koa wood and seasoned fretwork for tone. Prices range from 3.75 to 20 dollars, with expected annual output near 40,000 instruments as demand grows. The instrument’s surge follows rising popularity in the United States.
Lord Leverhulme buys Lewis Island off Scotland the second largest of the British isles covering 77 square miles with about 30 000 residents. He aims to expand population to 300 000 to bolster the British fishing industry and already demonstrates activity on the Mersey.
Lord Crawford chancellor of the duchy of Lancaster from Haighhall Wigan joined the Wigan branch of the Comrades of the Great War as Corporal Crawford. He first enlisted as a private in the Royal Army Medical Corps and served in France before rising to corporal, the rank he currently holds.
A mother asks Ethel about lessons in natural history and learns her child believes the nursery rhyme mistake was a kangaroo leaping over the moon. The dialogue underscores playful miseducation in a domestic scene.
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