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Newspaper
Greencastle Herald
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 24, 1920
Page
4
Billy nourishes secret affection for Roberta while Bobby circles as a rival. A farm visit ends with Roberta calling Billy brave after he rescues her from a dog and hints at mutual affection. Roberta ultimately praises Billy’s courage and admits loving him, despite rivals and hesitation.
Norma Newton and Terry Miller, planning a life in a newly furnished home, confront romantic deception as Terry reveals a staged marriage plan. The air of comic longing gives way to a decisive confession when Norma agrees to marry Terry, glad to escape the mock wedding with Misa Buckingham.
A widow Clare, thirty five, recalls a youthful romance after discovering a long lost fraternity letter and a former suitor, Milton, arrives in her hometown to confess a past romance long thought ended. He reveals he remains widowed and asks to stay as a train nears.
The Junior Red Cross at Collestrada Umbria makes kitchen utensils from ossers and osier to supply nearby villages. Orphans weave colanders sieves and market baskets, using tight reed receptacles for flour sifting. Output meets local demand as Italy uses metal outputs elsewhere. weekly production nears a hundred baskets and colanders.
Harbin reports described Siberian cities Tomsk Novo Nikolaevsk and Kypas noyvarsk as dead towns with deserted streets and burned buses. Public executions terrorize the populace while editors Adrianoff and Filimonoff were executed in Tomsk. Kolchak officers reportedly executed at Krasnoyarsk. Peasants revolt and with five regiments near Minusinsk push an offensive against the Reds.
A 8.5 foot shark, dubbed man-eating, was caught at Piney Point Maryland up the Potomac. A doctor in the party removed its teeth and kept them as souvenirs.
United States Geological Survey reports world gold output fell in 1919 from 1918 and suggests 1920 may show a further drop. Incomplete returns put 1919 production between 445 million and 350 million dollars with US share around 58 million. First half 1920 indicates US output under 50 million. Water shortage for placer mining and many stamp mills closed.
Mexico plans to export 130 to 135 million barrels of oil in 1920, more than the rest of the world combined. Tampico statistician George Blardone bases the forecast on record early 1920 production with 48,617,167 barrels exported through May, up from 28,285,089 in the same period of 1919. He estimates total 1920 output at about 150 million barrels, about 72 percent above last year, with roughly 100 million barrels destined for the United States.
Miss Jeanway wears a tree bark hat made from palm bark with jade green beads and a navy silk thread trim. Her frock features acorn trimming and shoes carved from tree trunks while stockings depict trees and waves, woven by a civilian prisoner in Amsterdam.
Moscow reports a new Soviet edict forcing women aged eighteen to forty five to marry immediately and name their husbands while offering district lists of suitable matches. Divorces are allowed for marriages longer than four years without population gain. Unrest grows as many maidens flee or abandon husbands to avoid the policy.
Tahitian natives shaped large kites and used cliff rock anchors on Talurapu to launch aerial passages across a bay. Men would tether to rock grooves and ride the wind, acting as flying pioneers long before true airplanes.
A Greek cook from the tug Winthrop, which sank off Cape Henry on July 15, was rescued in the open sea and brought to Jacksonville by the steamer Kokomo. Earlier reports had the cook and a mess boy drowned.
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